Karen Marie LaFace (born January 29, 1966) is a retired American female diver for Ohio State University and a 1992 U.S. Olympic competitor in 3m springboard diving.

[2] LaFace also attended and competed in swimming for Churchill High School in dual meets where in her Freshman year was Coached by Bill Griffith.

By her Sophomore year, she trained with the Pitt Club, a highly competitive program, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Oakland, six nights a week.

[10] LaFace won the gold medal in the same event a year earlier at the 1991 Pan American Games.

She worked for the Guthrie Medical Group, and served as head diving coach at New York's Ithaca College.