Stars assistant coach Kuni Schultz sees great promise in the young Seabrook resident. “She could be a good one,” Schultz said. That’s good news for Sanders, who plans on honing her skills....“I want to get a scholarship and go as far as I can, maybe even go to the Olympics,” she said.

Diver Tony Ally has been given a reprieve after fearing his hopes of competing at his third successive Olympics had been scuppered by injury.

Hamelink used to be ranked nationally in junior diving and understands how nerves can affect performance. In trampolining, there is a routine with 10 manoeuvres. In diving, there is only one. "If you are nervous, you can lose the plot and can't get it back," she explained. "In diving, you can get it back with the next dive."

The St. Clair native has spent the past two summers working as a mermaid at Six Flags Over Georgia. Now she's joining the World Professional Extreme Diving Team, which is going to China for four months of performances in the country's largest water park in Shenyang City,

PRACHI WINS GOLD: Prachi Talaulikar clinched a gold medal in the 3 m springboard event at the recently held 21st national junior diving championships in Nasik India

UCLA Signs HEATHER PENG, Palo Alto HS in Palo Alto, CA...Competes for Stanford Diving Club and has qualified for both the Winter and Summer Junior Olympics...She is the HS record holder in the 1 and 3 meter events. BRITTANY RENFROW, Centennial HS in Bakersfield, CA. She is a six-time Junior National Champion on springboard...In 2000 at the Jr. Nationals was 3rd on the 1m and 4th on the 3m boards... Has been injured the past few years, but is healthy again.

Elyse Lee's unprecedented 1-meter diving career at Albion High School has come to a close, and it could not have been capped off in better fashion.....After winning four consecutive state titles and earning All-American honors for the third straight year, Lee was recently named the best diver in America by the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association.

With 53 days to go before Athens, Foley insists Britain are "right on track". The man brought over from Australia in 2000 to raise the level of diving in Britain said significant improvements had been made since the Sydney Olympics.

Got Milk? Half Hollow Hills East senior Gayle Rudofsky, the state diving champion and a three-sport athlete, will be immortalized in a milk mustache ad in USA Today. She was one of 25 winners of the Scholar Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year award, which includes a $7,500 scholarship.