"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.

"He performed extremely well on Thursday," Pitt head diving coach Julian Krug said. "After that his performance pretty much went downhill."

PETALING JAYA: Diver Gracie Junita will be making her bids to seal a place in the Athens Olympics in two top back-to-back competitions in Asia next month....Apart from the 13-year-old Gracie, the others for the two competitions are Leong Mun Yee, Nor Aznizal Najib, Zibeon Uzza, Bryan Nickson and Khairul Safuan. 

Diving coach Jeff Shaffer was named the NCAA Diving Coach of the Year.
Garcia was named Diver of the Year for his efforts.
The trio of Bricker, Garcia and Segerlin became the first three divers to score at the same meet in Auburn history. In the three days, the Tiger divers scored 93 points in three events.

For the first few dives yesterday, Boileau and Heymans fought it out. Boileau came in leading her provincial rival by two points after the semifinal dives and had the lead after two dives. But on her fourth attempt, three somersaults from a handstand, Boileau didn't hit it and got just 37.44 points from the judges and Heymans pulled ahead for good.

A South African made a big splash at the Canadian diving championships and stole a little thunder from the Canucks. Jenna Dreyer of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, unofficially claimed gold yesterday in the women's 1-metre final at the senior winter diving nationals at the Talisman Centre. ... She said she's working out in Canada because the coaching and facilities are better than in South Africa, where all the dive pools are outdoors and the training season only goes from September to March.

ASU'S TRISHA TUMLINSON NAMED DIVER OF THE YEAR
STANFORD'S CASSIDY KRUG AND ARIZONA'S MARY YARRISON
NAMED NEWCOMERS OF THE YEAR
ASU'S MARK BRADSHAW NAMED COACH OF THE YEAR

It took a while but Arturo Miranda finally captured his first 1-metre national title. After seven years, the Cuban-born diver from Montreal captured gold yesterday at the winter senior Canadian championships at the Talisman Centre dive pool.

"I couldn't be happier for her," McCalley said following the 3-meter competition. "I feel like I won with her tonight. I am very proud of Lane."

Leap of perfection

The Nodeland, Norway, native will compete in the 1-meter and 3-meter events today and Saturday at the NCAA championships in East Meadow, N.Y. As a sophomore, Klami finished 15th in the 3-meter and 33rd in the 1-meter, but he competed in the Norwegian championships before the national collegiate meet and his legs were not well-rested, Iowa diving coach Bob Rydze said.

Springing back to the top (good photo)

The NJSIAA Swimming Championships were held over the weekend of March 6-7. The NJSIAA Diving Championships were held the previous Thursday. The Tri-County Conference held its diving championship before the swimming events, as did the South Jersey Swim League. See the trend. These facts give legitimacy to the question: Why is diving part of a regular swim meet? more

Rommel Pacheco from Mexico will be the first one in the world to do a front 3 and a half with a 1 and a half twist from the 10 m platform. 3.8 DD same as the DD as the back 2 and a half with 2 and a half twists done by Mathew Helm (AUS) Hu Jio (CH) and Leon Taylor (GB) more I Translated

She's a diver at the University of Houston who competed in the Olympics representing Mexico when she was just 11 years old.... But Almacan did something that most people wouldn't do if they had the chance to compete in the Olympics twice -- she said no to the 2004 games in order to continue her education in Houston. more

Often unrecognized but still a valuable asset, the Peddie School boys and girls diving teams each recorded a winning season which culminated at last month's Eastern Championships.
    Most notable was the performance of senior Abby Uzupis, who placed fourth at Easterns more

El mexicano Rommel Pacheco se convertirá en el primer saltador en el mundo en ejecutar el clavado de tres y media vuelta atrás con giro y medio en la plataforma de 10 metros en una competencia oficial, el cual desea perfeccionar para los Juegos Olímpicos Atenas 2004.

Please note, The diving will venue is compete.
THIS is the shocking state of the swimming pool with just 145 days to the start of the 2004 Olympics.....It looks more like a filthy ruin than a showpiece for the Games' historic return to Athens. The pool itself has a badly-stained floor and is covered in concrete dust. A diving area under the boards has not been finished and rows of seating for the 10,893 spectators have still not been installed. One onlooker said yesterday: “It is far from the finished article. It looks more like a building site than an Olympic venue.”

Mounds View High School orchestra director and diving coach John Madura is being inducted into two halls of fame this year, at Austin High School in his hometown of Austin and into the University of Minnesota Swimming Hall of Fame.

Windows of Opportunity, Optimal Trainability Scientific research has concluded that it takes eight-to-twelve years of training for a talented player/athlete to reach elite levels. This is called the ten-year or 10,000 hour rule, which translates to slightly more than three hours of practice daily for ten years Unfortunately, parents and coaches in many sports still approach training with an attitude best characterized as "peaking by Friday," where a short-term approach is taken to training and performance with an over-emphasis on immediate results. more