We will now begin the one meter diving competition, in the preliminaries over 40 competitors competed, eight of them made it to the finals, Miami’s Avali will lead off, Delaney Schnell was the top qualifier, in the diving order, Schnell and Sarah Bacon were the top two qualifiers, here are six dives from the valley, we have seven judges scoring, you will see each one dive, Miami’s Valley went from a 2.4 difficulty level dive, we’ll see up to a 3.1 difficulty level dive, that’s a pretty big difference, 2.4 to 3.1.
A lot of people wonder how you calculate the difficulty, when you look at the seven scores, you take out the two highest and the two lowest and multiply that by the difficulty, so that’s where that factor comes in and plays a very important role. You need Mia Valley’s super kick to open the show, and now Duke’s Marco O’Mara is the one-meter springboard champion, so a lot of people do dives that aren’t done by other competitors, and I think that’s a good thing because the judges aren’t in the finals most of the time. But it’s possible, so when you do a different dive, a more difficult dive, especially if you do it well, you can get great scores, two and a half somersaults in four days, there’s a lot of variables in there, not only landing at the end of the springboard, timing and rhythm, but also doing gymnastic moves If you can get close to 60 points, that’s a great score, depending on how difficult you are, Talon It’s hard to score high because his difficulty is very low. 2. Now it’s Haley Hernandez, the Texas competitor in the Tokyo Olympics, who finished ninth on the three-meter springboard.
She finished ninth on the three-meter springboard, she’s better than ever, if she misses, it’s trivial, it’s amazing just for a freshman to do that, it’s a very high scoring dive, you see those 8 point judges, judging from 0 to 10, in half point increments, so 0 1 half 1, wait, wait, wait, here’s a Ronda Vazquez. she is a Mexican Olympian who finished sixth at UNC, and her timing and pacing was great, and I asked Yadel Gamboa, the coach at UNC, if she had done any other sports before she started diving, and he said no, she’s been diving since she was seven years old, and Cynthia, she had 3. She had a difficulty of 0 in the last round, so she had a good chance to make a big splash in the sixth round and now four-time NCAA champion Sarah Bacon, we just saw a 62.40 dive by sophomore Aranza Vasquez from UNC, Sarah Bacon is a very aesthetically pleasing person with great technique and athleticism, so she has all the assets a diver needs, Vasquez had a difficulty of 2.6 It was the most difficult dive of the entire first round, and now it’s Schnell’s 2.
She was the silver medalist in Indiana, and they won the silver medal on the platform, so it was the lowest equipment in the Olympics, and she was the Olympic silver medalist. It was the hardest dive of the meet, the difficulty was 3.1, nobody got to 3.0, and two rounds later, Mia got to 3.0 as well, and other competitors got to 3.
0, which is good, than to jump backwards like that, she scored the highest by far, even though we only got to the second round, 68 20 for the three-meter champion, and now the one-meter champion, Duke’s Marco O’meara , a freshman from St. Louis, 3. 1, scored from 6 to 7.5, the same score as Margo’s previous divers, actually Margo’s diving judges scored higher, only 52.90, great point, you really saw that in that diving voter Ma’ama was next, she came in seventh after the first round, oh she’s a beautiful diver, she really likes that nice quality of floating on the end of the springboard, she jumped high but she used the springboard to her advantage, nice 61.
2 points in that round, now Indiana’s Taryn Gilliland was the NCAA 10 meter platform champion last year, Daryn is known for her start on the springboard, she’s happy to be here, her coach Joe Hanson from Indiana said she loves the big She tried out last year due to injury but came back this season to compete for the title, one of the athletes who came out of the Olympic trials as an Olympian Haley Hernandez in the Olympic finals, which is amazing and not only sets her up for a solid future in her catering career, but also finals like this one.
