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Collier Dyer

High Five: National Team Newcomer Collier Dyer Set for First World Championships

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Collier Dyer poolside in a USA jacket

Collier Dyer

Collier Dyer started diving just five years ago.

The 21-year-old from Colorado is now set to compete in his first World Aquatics Championships. Although he might not have the experience his veteran teammates do, Dyer is already making an impact on new divers.

The U.S. team trained at Stanford before heading to Singapore, and junior divers from local clubs were invited to watch practice and meet and talk with the team. One conversation stood out to Dyer.

“I was talking to a girl who hadn’t been diving for very long. Lyle (Yost) was telling her, ‘Oh, this kid’s only been diving for five years.’ It was really cool to see that I can be an example to people who maybe just don’t have the 10 years or the 15 years of experience,” Dyer said.  “You can still show up every day and you can still work hard, and just see what happens.”   

Dyer made his first World Championships team after placing second on 3-meter at the USA Diving National Championships in May. He made his international debut in June at the Canada Cup and also competed at the Bolzano Diving Meeting this summer.

Flash back just three years, and Dyer was at his first and only USA Diving Junior National Championships.

“Zooming out and being able to see the whole journey, it’s really cool to see where it takes you if you just trust it,” Dyer said. “You trust it on the not-so-good days, and you trust it on the great ones. Then you know you can show up the next day and just put in the work. It’s taught me a lot. I just love showing up every day. It’s been crazy, but I love it.”


Zooming out and being able to see the whole journey, it’s really cool to see where it takes you if you just trust it. You trust it on the not-so-good days, and you trust it on the great ones. Then you know you can show up the next day and just put in the work.
Collier Dyer

Dyer grew up in a football family. His father played in college, and his grandfather coached in the NFL, winning two Super Bowls while with the Denver Broncos.

So naturally, Collier played football.

But he was looking for an additional sport in the offseason.

“I wanted to play a third sport for my high school. It was football in the fall and wrestling in the winter, and it was going to be either track or diving in the spring. I started diving the spring of my freshman year,” Dyer said.

He returned to football for his sophomore season and then decided he wanted to take diving more seriously.

“I joined Mile High Dive Club, which was lucky for me. I joined in January of 2020, just two months before the big COVID shutdown. When we could train again, I was really excited,” Dyer said. “Things were kind of urgent for me. I knew had to pick it up because recruiting was coming up.”

He competed at USA Diving zones in 2021, went to junior nationals in 2022 and then headed to the University of Missouri, where his diving career really started to flourish.

He qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials on both 3-meter and 10-meter and advanced to the semifinals on platform. Later that year, he made finals on both events at the 2024 USA Diving Winter National Championships.

As for the World Championships and beyond, Dyer says he plans to keep doing what he’s been doing.

“I’ve committed to it for five years now, and I’m committed to staying on the same path and just seeing what happens,” Dyer said. “I’ve stopped setting goals for myself, which sounds bad, but I’ve started replacing goals with habits. If I can just commit to my habits, then I think that’s going to take me farther than if I were to set a goal. Because that also sets a ceiling, to a certain degree.”

Away from diving, Dyer enjoys watching football and other sports. He's also an avid solver of Rubik’s Cubes, and he took several of them to Singapore.

“I brought a bunch of Rubik’s Cubes, and those are fun. Someone timed me (at training camp), and I got 15 seconds, but the best I’ve ever done is like 9.4. I would take 15 seconds every time though,” Dyer said.