In 1956, Kimball helped lead the Rochester Rockets to the Minnesota AAU outdoor swimming championship.

[3] After graduating from high school, Kimball spent one year at the University of Oklahoma before transferring to Michigan.

[5] The Associated Press reported: "Poised, acrobatic Dick Kimball of Michigan won both the low and high board events.

While at Michigan, Kimball also competed on the gymnastics team under Coach Newt Loken and won the national trampoline title.

[8] In 1960 and again in 1962, Billingsley and Kimball took time off from coaching to serve the U.S. State Department "as goodwill ambassadors" touring the world.

[8] They gave over 1,000 performances on their 1962 world tour and also appeared on television shows including Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town, Sports Spectacular and You Asked For It.

[10] Four of Kimball's divers won Olympic gold medals: Bob Webster in 1960 and 1964, Micki King in 1972, Phil Boggs in 1976, and Mark Lenzi (1992).

Many more divers were coached by Kimball to spots on the Olympic teams for The USA, England, Canada, Uruguay.

Three others won individual NCAA championships: Matthew Chelich (1-meter in 1977; 3-meter in 1979); Ronald Merriott (3-meter in 1982), and Kent Ferguson (3-meter in 1984).

He also coached three Big Ten Conference women's divers of the year: Diane Dudeck (1984), Mary Fishback (1988), and Carrie Zarse (1995).

In the years before Title IX, women were not permitted to compete in University of Michigan athletics, but Kimball circumvented the system in the 1960s to train two women, Micki King and Lani Loken (the daughter of U-M gymnastics coach Newt Loken), with the men's team.

"[12] King became the dominant woman diver in the United States under Kimball's coaching, winning ten national championships between 1965 and 1972.

"[17] Kimball said he still planned to run diving clinics, swim 1,000 yards, roller-blade and ice skate every day.

Their son Bruce Kimball won a silver medal in the 10-meter platform event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Their daughter, Vicky Kimball, is the current head dive coach at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.