He was a bronze medal winner during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh, Scotland in the 3 metre springboard event.

[5] He made the national team after just one year of diving, which he described as being unusual but attributed this to his previous experience in gymnastics which gave him leg and arm strength.

[3] At the 1971 Canadian championships, he won three gold medals in each of the diving events, the 1m, 2m and 10-metre respectively before representing Canada at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

[3] In 1994, Friesen was the head of diving for the Canadian team at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia.

By 2003, he was a lawyer and married to Christine Looke, a fellow diver and close friend of Beverly Boys.