Career
Her best sports years began in the late 1930s. Helen was chosen to represent America in the 1940 Olympic Games. However, because of the onset of the Second World War, the games were cancelled.
During this period her dominance of the United States. women"s diving nationals was overwhelming.
She was honored by being inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1981, the Helms Diving Hall of Fame and the San Francisco Preparatory Hall of Fame. Along with Georgia Coleman, Pat McCormick and Micki King, all Hall of Famers, she has been closer to the men"s standards of diving excellence than any of the other great women in history.
She died of cancer.