Victoria Draves was born Victoria Taylor Manalo in the South of Market district of San Francisco on December 31, 1924.

Join SOMA Pilipinas for a community celebration of two-time Filipina Olympian Victoria Manalo Draves, on her 100th Birthday Month with a free poster gift illustrated by SF artist Jenifer K Wofford ...

She would also win a gold medal for platform diving at the same Games. Draves was born Victoria Manalo in San Francisco's South of Market District on Dec. 31, 1924.

A developer who wants to build a 63-unit building in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood next to Victoria Manalo Draves Park was turned down again Tuesday, this time by the SF Board of Supervisors ...

The park is named for local diving champion Vicki Manalo Draves, the first Filipina-American to compete in the Olympic games. In 1948, she won two gold medals, in springboard and platform diving ...

Muralist Johanna Poethig doesn’t get tired of climbing the scaffold. Up one level, through the platform’s trap door, onto the next section. Repeat. On a recent Wednesday, the 68-year-old artist did ...

City Rejects Development That Would Cast Shadow on Victoria Manalo Draves Park The City Board of Supervisors voted 10-0 to appeal the development in SoMa By Jen Woo April 18, 2019 ...

By Kimberly Veklerov, Lead Digital ReporterApril 20, 2016 The Victoria Manalo Draves Park in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood was closed for several hours Wednesday following a ...

Vicki Draves, a double Olympic gold medal-winning diver and International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, was honored Monday as the subject of the Google Doodle. The Aug. 3 date m ...

Daves, who was born Victoria Manalo, originally changed her last name to Taylor to be allowed into a swimming school. (She married Lyle Draves in 1946.) ...