Cliff diving finds a home with the Postal Service

 

Gotha, FL, Rural Carrier Associate Ginger Huber.

What does Ginger Huber have in common with her grandfather? He worked for the Postal Service and was a man who loved to dive.  

“As much as Papa enjoyed the sport, he didn’t travel the world to dive,” said Huber. She took up diving as a teenager and would later land a full scholarship at the University of Georgia in the sport.

 

After college, Huber got into show diving at theme parks, including Holiday World, Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, Six Flags Atlanta, three Sea Worlds, and Dream World in Australia. The dives involved acrobats and high dives. However, in 2013, she made the transition from a circus-style show to cliff diving by winning a coveted spot on the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series for Women.  

 

“I learned to cliff dive in those tiny, little pools with the tall ladders 70-80 feet up. Sometimes you looked down and couldn’t see the pool,” she laughed. 

 

The cliff diving circuit took Huber around the world. It resulted in some breathtaking photos that can be found on the internet. Places like Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Arab Emigrants, Japan, and one of her favorite spots, the Azores Islands in Portugal, where she competed in 2017-18. Diving is also how she met her Canadian husband, who was also a high diver and who now coaches for a living.

 

As much as she is still a cliff diver part-time, she is also a Rural Carrier Associate in Gotha, FL, thoroughly loving it. “I’m a total newbie. I started my training in February,” said Huber. Her grandfather was a mechanic for the Postal Service.”

 

“When I lived in San Diego, I’d always see my mail carrier and thought they had the coolest job. My parents were federal employees and always had a stable income and benefits. After living life as a cliff diver for many years, I looked for something more stable and consistent.

 

“It was kind of time to start winding down. I did do a competition last summer. But I don’t plan on competing anymore. If I do it, it’s just for fun.”

Ginger Huber shows her cliff diving talents at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Palawan, Philippines in 2019.  Photo credit: Ricardo Nascimento / Red Bull Content Pool.

In front of a crowd of boaters, Ginger Huber performs an inward layout during the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Possum Kingdom Lake, TX in June 2018. Photo credit: Dean Treml / Red Bull Content Pool.