American Flyers Diving started off the high school post-season this week with Division 1 Sectional Meets at Solon High School & the University of Akron. AFD had divers competing from 6 different high schools and advanced 5 divers to next weeks District Championships and Cleveland State University.
On Wednesday at the Solon Girls Sectional, Sivan Mills of Solon started the post-season off right, coming from behind on her last dive to take over 1st place by less then 2 points. Maintaining 2nd place for most of the meet, Sivan needed just over 52 points on her final dive, inward double, to captures 1st place. A great dive earned Sivan 54 points and the 1st Sectional Championship of her high school career. Her score of 430.00 is good enough for the 2nd overall seed at districts.
Finishing 6th was Taylor Epstein, also of Solon. Taylor set her personal best with a final score of 351.50. She will be diving at the district meet for the second consecutive year after finishing 13th last season at CSU.
Hannah Fink of Shaker Heights also advanced to districts with a score of 309.25. Hannah will be diving in her first district meet with hopes of setting a new Shaker Heights school record for an 11 dive meet.
Also diving at the sectional meet were Tatyana Lavrinenko and Izzy Knazek, both from Solon. Both Izzy & Tatyana dove well but didn't qualify to the district meet this year.
Down at the University of Akron on Wednesday, AFD had 9 divers competing at the Akron Sectional Meet. Qualifiers from the Akron section will meet qualifiers from the Solon section at the CSU District Championships.
Setting a personal best score by over 100 points was Taryn McLaughlin of Hudson. Taryn finished with a score of 397.75, bettering her previous record of 296.30 set at the NOC championship meet just 5 weeks earlier. Taryn earned 2nd place overall at the sectional meet and will be advancing to her first district competition this year, with the 5th highest overall sectional score.
Also advancing to districts was Bre Horrigan of Nordonia. Bre was behind her personal best of 408.9, finishing with a score of 360.00, but will still be seeded 11th overall at the district meet. Bre has thie highest DD list of any diver in the district meet and is looking to advance to her 1st state meet.
Ashleigh Weddington and Sophia Cooper of Twinsburg both advanced to the second round off the competition and finished 25th and 30th respectively. Both will be looking for top 10 spots next year, and will be training with AFD during the USA diving season.
Also finishing up their high school seasons at Akron were Nicole Clough of Nordonia, Kayla Sasala and Lauren Podogil of Aurora, Kelly Doran and Elizabeth Burby of Twinsburg.
Full results of both sectional meets are available online, http://www.nedab.org/09swimpsychesheets.htm
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