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UK S&D: Erick Fornaris Named Assistant Dive Coach
PRESS RELEASE: UK ATHLETICS
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky swimming & diving Head Coach Bret Lundgaard announced the addition of Erick Fornaris as an assistant dive coach for the Kentucky Swimming and Diving program, bringing highlights of major international coaching success and experience to Lexington.
“We are excited to welcome Erick to the swimming and diving staff,” Lundgaard said. “He brings a high-level expertise that he carries from not only his coaching experiences, but from also competing at some of the most competitive levels that the sport offers.”
As a coach, Fornaris has served as Head Coach of the Ecuador National Diving Team, assistant coach at YCF Diving in the United States, and director of Fornaris Diving Club in the United States. His experience includes daily training design, technical development across all events, athlete safety, and program management.
Fornaris is an elite-level diving coach with extensive international experience as both an athlete and coach. He brings a high-performance background across all diving events, including 1-meter and 3-meter springboard, 10-meter platform, and synchronized diving (3-meter and 10-meter), along with a strong foundation in athlete development and competition preparation.
As an athlete, he represented his country at three Olympic Games, achieving a best finish of fourth place. He was also a World Championships finalist (best finish: fourth), World Cup silver medalist, Diving World Series medalist, Grand Prix medalist and Super Final medalist, multiple Pan American Games silver medalist, World University Games medalist, Central American and Caribbean Games champion, and a multi-time national champion across all diving events.
Fornaris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Culture and Sport and has over a decade of experience in high-performance environments. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and brings strong international recruiting connections, particularly across Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries. His global network and experience at the highest levels of sport support his ability to identify and develop talent while contributing to a positive and competitive team culture.
“His passion and gratitude for being a Wildcat brings an infectious influence on our program,” Lundgaard said. “He is committed to helping our student athletes grow as we develop a world class diving program.”
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Search for fugitive ends with three in jail for drug trafficking
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Efforts by Pikeville Police to find an Ohio fugitive resulted in officers finding the suspect as well as an assortment of drugs.
Pikeville Police and a U.S. Marshals Task Force had a information that Dennis Washington, 51, of Columbus, Ohio, could be located at an apartment on Hambley Boulevard and went to locate him April 14. Washington was wanted in Columbus for multiple counts of drug trafficking and possession.
When they arrived at the apartment, they found Daryl Adkins, 58, of Pikeville, sitting outside. When they showed him a picture of Washington and asked if he knew where he was, he said he didn’t recognize him but would let them know if he saw him.
Police later learned from the apartment owner that Washington was in the apartment and officers soon placed him under arrest. While doing so, they spotted a glass pipe nearby, and used that information to obtain a search warrant for the apartment.
That search turned up two gallon-size plastic bags of meth hidden in the washer and dryer, multiple bags of fentanyl, some crack cocaine and six oxycodone tablets.
Washington also let the officers know that Adkins had let him know that police were looking for him.
Washington, Adkins and Lashawn Walker, 51, of Columbus, who was also in the apartment, were all arrested and charged with meth and cocaine trafficking, aggravated fentanyl trafficking and drug possession. Adkins was also charged with hindering prosecution for lying to police, as well as promoting contraband and fentanyl possession when jail staff found a bag of the drug hidden in his jeans.
All three remain in the Pike County jail.
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