Kimberly began diving at the age of 15 in Ohio. Since then, she has been diving all over the U.S., in Honduras, the Philippines, Mexico, Jamaica, and Panama. In January 2009, she signed up for Texas A&M’s Scientific Diving class, in which she earned her cavern certification and fell in love with technical diving. She completed her full cave certifications independently and is currently serving as a research assistant collecting sediment samples in some of Florida’s caves. She graduated from Texas A&M in May 2010 with a B.S. in marine biology. Now married, Kimberly owns a home in Gainesville, Florida. She is a new nurse; she graduated from the University of Florida with her BSN. She and her husband recently spent 6 weeks diving and traveling through the South Pacific—Tahiti, Moorea, Bora Bora, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Australia She still dives side mount and is currently in the process of re-rigging her entire system (not a lot of stuff out there made for small women). She and her husband are very involved with the local dry caving grotto as well as the Florida Speleological Society. While in school, she focused on learning to lead caving trips, giving talks to the public about cave conservation and their role in our ecosystem, and becoming proficient on rope. “Receiving the WDHOF scholarship was such a privilege and it opened doors for me in technical diving that would have otherwise been closed. I still look back on that as one of the proudest moments in my diving career. Though I haven’t had the opportunity to do much technical diving in the last few years (too much money and time when one is a student), I am really hoping to get back out there soon. I have always loved both the water and caves, so cave diving is a very natural marriage of the two!”