Karen Marie LaFace (born January 29, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a retired female diver from the United States. She competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics, finishing in ninth place in the Women's 3m Springboard event. LaFace claimed the gold medal in the same event a year earlier at the 1991 Pan American Games. * A medical doctor for the past 14 years in Ithaca, New York as of 2010. * Coaching diving at Ithaca College