Ann Stewart Peterson (born June 16, 1947) is an American diver who competed in the 10 meter platform event.
[1] Peterson began participating in competitive diving in 1957 with Dick Smith's Swim Gym, but quit in 1960 to move with her parents to Seattle, Washington.
Prior to Peterson's stint in the Olympics, she won the Junior National Amateur Athletic Union Women's 3 meter diving championship in Arizona in 1962, with a score of 394.60 points.
[3] Peterson won two gold medals for diving at the 1967 National Intercollegiate Championships later in the same year that she participated in the 1967 Pan American Games.
[6][7] Peterson's diving was the first footage of the 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States.