Luck may be one reason for Sorgi's success but natural ability is more likely the cause. Sorgi comes from an athletic family. His sister, Erica, was a top diver for Stanford. "I'm definitely the second-best athlete in the family," laughed Sorgi. "She's the best competitor I know." Sorgi also takes advantage of Erica's expertise when it comes to sports."I know I can turn to her if I'm in a tough situation," stated Sorgi. "She taught me at a young age to work, and she keeps my spirits up."

Clemson diver Eric Shulick has been selected to represent the University at the 2004 NCAA Leadership Conference to be held May 30th - June 3rd at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex and Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL. more

Though Greeley divers may think she deserves a throne, Sabra Maas settles comfortably into a white plastic chair on the deck of the Greeley Recreation Center pool. ...Before the first splash and between rounds of the diving competition, she sits with clipboard in hand like the ruler of her world. After all, eight of the 16 divers this day learn from her. You can't help but take orders from an All-American, even if she coaches the rival team, too.

Local diving didn't miss a beat when the Cincinnati Stingray dissolved in August. Renamed Tri-State Diving, the elite diving team - consisting of boys and girls aged 9 to 18 - was broken into three satellite locations and coached by Paul Glassman, Lori Rapp and Todd Spohn. After the Winter Regional meets, several divers have qualified for the East Nationals in Moultrie, Ga., and the West Nationals in San Antonio, Texas, both April 23-25. Hannah Gadd (Highlands) will compete in 1-meter diving, with Amanda Maschinot (Campbell County, Ky.) and Michael Grainger (Indian Hill) competing on the 3-meter. Kristyn Persinger (Liberty, Ind.), Izzi Krombholz (Indian Hill), Nicole Brehm (West Chester), Nathan Conway (Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy), Scott Kelley (Delhi), Evan Stowers (Simon Kenton), Brittany Hill (Indian Hill) and Jen Funch (Ursuline) qualified on both boards.

THE Australian diving team for the Athens Olympics has been hailed as on track to end an 80-year-long gold medal drought.

Despite having trained together just twice before yesterday's trials, former Russian star Irina Lashko yesterday booked a spot on her fourth Olympic team and new partner Chantelle Michell a place on her second after the pair blitzed the women's 3m syncronised event at the trials.

The senior becomes one of the best divers in the Lehigh Valley.

Sarah Costanza, William Smith (swimming and diving): The sophomore became the first William Smith diver to earn All-America honors. She was unbeaten in both the one- and three-meter boards for the season and won the UCAA and NYSWCAA championships.

Pain can be a great motivator. Just ask a platform diver.
Divers jumping from a platform 32 feet above a pool of water don't need a coach to tell them if they made a mistake. They can feel it.

SCOTTSDALE - It's not easy to replace an Olympic-caliber coach.
Just ask members of the Scottsdale-based Clavadistas del Sol diving team. Three years after the much-respected Allan Spreen left the club, divers still are struggling to meet the high standards achieved under their former coach, who gained fame in the mid-1990s for instructing U.S. Olympic qualifier Melissa Moses.

The Chinese diving team, once so strong that others even did not imagine to beat them, gave the Chinese fans a touch of panic as they lost all the men's titles except the 1m springboard as well as women's platform gold at the World Championships last year in Barcelona, which was called by the Chinese Youth newspaper "Waterloo for Chinese diving". .... What should they do?

The 26-year-old, oldest in the Chinese diving team, stood on the top of the podium with 528.15 points, beating his teammate Wang Kenan in 506.43. Rommel Pacheco of Mexico, bronze medalist in the World Cup in Spain two weeks ago, finished a distant third on 455.79.

St. Louisan Jessica Livingston , who moved to Houston last summer, has qualified for the U.S. Olympic diving trials, to be held in St. Peters in June. She's headed to the University of Minnesota on a diving scholarship.

ZHUHAI, South China, Apr. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese divers gave thehome spectators a sweet Friday afternoon when they retained two men's synchronized events in both the platform and the springboardat the FINA Diving Grand Prix here.

Known as the "springboard queen" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gao retired after her Olympic victory in Barcelona. She then went to the United States to study sports management and subsequently opened a diving club in Canada and teaches three hours a day. "My diving career gave me many years of glory and satisfaction,but I also love living as ordinary people," she said.

"I think Leon and Peter have gone to China to shake the tree up by trying to beat China in their own backyard," said Steve Foley, the Great Britain National Diving Performance Director. "They are both serious gold-medal threats."

The 57-year-old, who is an Adult Education IT lecturer at Slaithwaite for Huddersfield Technical College, is bound for Greece in August as one of the 18 judges for the diving competitions.