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  Katura Horton-Perinchief
Katura Horton-Perinchief
Player Profile
Last College:
Texas '04

Position:
Diving Coach

Experience:
1st Year at GW

Katura Horton-Perinchief is in her first year as the head diving coach at George Washington University. Horton-Perinchief came to GW as a student-athlete prior to the 2004-05 academic year as a transfer graduate student from the University of Texas. Competing for GW last season, she earned First Team All-Atlantic 10 honors in two events along with being named A-10 Academic All-Conference. Horton-Perinchief set school records in the one-meter and three-meter events and was subsequently named the 2005 Atlantic 10 Most Outstanding Diver. She qualified and competed at Nationals, becoming only the second-ever GW diver to do so. While at Texas, Horton-Perinchief earned All-Big 12 honors and represented her native Bermuda at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Horton-Perinchief relocated from Bermuda to Toronto, Canada as a child and was a diver on the Canadian Junior Team from ages 13 to 18. Horton-Perinchief is pursuing a master's degree at GW in public health. She resides in Northwest, Washington, D.C.