Humankind Stories/Facebook. Video footage of the dive shows Devries walking to the edge of the diving board, as his 5-year-old daughter, Grace, watches from the side of the pool.

For Cliff Devries’ 44th birthday dive, we were there to take video of the event. When we posted it and shared an expanded version with Humankind, the video went viral. Since then, it has been ...

Cliff Devries, the head diving coach at Rochester Institute of Technology, will be featured Tuesday evening on ESPN. Devries, who turns 46 on Wednesday, is paralyzed on the right side of his body ...

An Upstate New York diving coach's annual achievement is going viral after he was the subject of a video by Humankind. Cliff Devries is a diving coach at Rochester Institute of Technology. Doctors ...

ROCHESTER, NY -- Rochester Institute of Technology diving coach Cliff Devries was diagnosed with a brain tumor two decades ago. The tumor left him paralyzed on his right side. The one thing he ...

After suffering from paralysis on his right side which crushed his Olympic dream, Cliff Devries’ determination allowed him to stand up, walk and eventually dive on his 46th birthday and it was ...

Devries is the diving coach for RIT’s collegiate team, but he can instruct only verbally, not physically. The Rochester native had been an All-American diver at Rush-Henrietta Senior High School.

Clifford Devries, Assistant Coach Men and Women's Swimming/Diving, Intercollegiate Athletics, Student Affairs, 585-475-5004, cwdatl@rit.edu. Cliff Devries enters his 20th year as the diving coach for ...

Devries was left partially paralyzed after surgery to remove the stem of his brain. But, it has not stopped him. He has been the head coach of RIT's dive team for the last 17 years.

Diver Cliff Devries had a promising career ahead when he was paralysed after surgery on a spinal cord tumour. Now he’s a diving coach and does a special birthday dive each year. Show more Cliff ...

Cliff Devries was a talented young diver hoping to make the US Olympic team when he discovered he had a life threatening tumour on his spinal cord. He was given less than a year to live.