Lurline Hook

{{Short description|Australian diver (1915–1986)}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Lurline Hook

| image = Lurline Hook.jpg

| caption = Hook in 1938

| birth_name = Lurline Elsie Hook

| nationality = {{AUS}}

| birth_date = 1915

| birth_place = Hay, New South Wales, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|03|11|1915|df=y}}

| death_place = Ballina, New South Wales, Australia

| spouse = {{marriage|Hylton Davies|1939|16 July 1945|end=died}}
{{marriage|Loyal George Cavanagh|1947}}

| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Diving}}

{{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1938 Sydney|10 Metres Platform}}

}}

Lurline Elsie Hook (1915 – 11 March 1986) was an Australian diver who won a gold medal at the 1938 British Empire Games. She was Australian springboard champion in 1931 and six times New South Wales diving champion.

Born in Hay, New South Wales in 1915,{{Cite web|title=Hook, Lurline Elsie|url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE2523b.htm|access-date=2021-11-16|website=The Australian Women's Register|language=en-gb}} Hook moved with her family to Lismore in the State's north-east, where she received a certificate from the Lismore Ladies' Life Saving and Swimming Club in 1924 for completing 50 and 100 yard swims.{{cite news|date=15 December 1924|title=Swimming|volume=49|page=2|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93468282|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}}

In 1926 Hook won the title of Queen of the Olde English Fayre, raising over £102 for the church she represented, St Luke's, Lismore and enabling repayment of a loan for its construction.{{cite news|date=7 July 1926|title=Queen Competition|volume=51|page=6|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93557250|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}}

At her first attempt, Hook placed third in the NSW junior diving championships in 1929{{cite news|date=29 January 1929|title=Swimming|volume=53|page=8|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94165965|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}} and fourth in the senior event.{{cite news|date=6 February 1929|title=Miss L Hook|volume=53|page=7|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94167305|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}} In the 1930 NSW championships she was injured and unable to perform up to expectation.{{cite news|date=26 March 1930|title=Hook Family|volume=54|page=4|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94127670|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}}

Hook won her first Australian national diving championship in 1931, winning the springboard event in Brisbane at age 15.{{cite news|date=25 January 1931|title=New Champ|page=7|newspaper=Truth|issue=1609|location=Queensland, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206270336|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}}{{cite news|date=26 January 1931|title=Lurline Hook|volume=55|page=5|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94118608|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}} It was the first time a country girl had won.{{cite news|date=28 January 1931|title=Still More Records in National Swimming Championships|page=11|newspaper=Referee|issue=2288|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136744133|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}}

She won gold in the 10 metre platform event at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.{{cite news|date=10 February 1938|title=Empire Games|page=10|newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate|issue=19,136|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133644891|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}}

Hook met her first husband, Hylton Davies at the 1931 championships.{{cite news|date=31 October 1939|title=Spotlight on Society|page=9 (Late Final Extra)|newspaper=The Sun|issue=9306|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231213192|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}} They married before he joined the AIF shortly the outbreak of WWII. He was killed in Borneo in July 1945.{{cite news|date=24 July 1945|title=Capt. H. C. Davies Killed in Action|page=4|newspaper=The Northern Star|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99177471|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 November 2021}} She married Loyal George Cavanagh in 1947.

Hook died in Ballina, New South Wales on 11 March 1986.{{Cite news|date=1986-03-12|title=Death notice: Cavanagh, Lurline Elsie|work=The Northern Star}}