{"id":201,"date":"2017-03-27T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=201"},"modified":"2024-09-21T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T16:22:54","slug":"billy-ray-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=billy-ray-schmidt","title":{"rendered":"Billy Ray Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billy Ray Schmidt was a diver for the University of Georgia\u2019s Swimming &amp; Diving Team from 1962-1966. Schmidt\u2019s diving career began in Albany, Georgia in 1959. During his collegiate career, Schmidt won the SEC 3-meter diving championship three times and the 1-meter championship twice. Schmidt began coaching in 1964 for his hometown team in Albany. From 1968 to 1970, Schmidt coached swimming for the U.S. Army at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Most of his coaching career was spent as the diving coach at Westminster Schools in Atlanta from 1970 until 1992. While at Westminster, Schmidt coached 31 high school All-American athletes and coached two USA Diving National champions. He also served as the president and head coach of the Atlanta Diving Association. Schmidt was inducted into the Albany Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billy Ray Schmidt passed away in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Career Highlights<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 SEC Championship diving titles<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coached 31 high school All-Americans<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coached two USA Diving National Champions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Ray Schmidt 2013\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FYCjPSxqI-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; 5 SEC Championship Diving Title<br \/>\n&#8211; Coached 31 High School All-American<br \/>\n&#8211; Coached 2 USA Diving National Champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[6],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-201","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/201\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}