Utes Wrap Competitors at Texas Diving Invitational

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Utah diving program wrapped competitors with males’s and girls’s platform on the ultimate day of the Texas Diving Invitational on the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Saturday.

Senior Kathryn Grant logged her third top-five end of the weekend, inserting fifth general, whereas Callie Eaglestone positioned ninth within the girls’s finals to cleared the path for head diving coach Richard Marschner‘s program.

“We got exactly what we needed out of this meet as different divers needed to accomplish different things to help progress for the end of the year,” Marschner mentioned.

Grant averaged 49.86 factors throughout her 5 dives en path to a 249.30 in her first platform competitors of the season, matching her fifth-place outcome from NCAA Zones final spring. The senior was the one girl within the area this week to log top-five finishes on the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform.

“Kat showed why she’s one of the nation’s top three-event divers as she was the only woman to place in the top five on all three events,” Marschner mentioned. “It was great to hear an opposing coach tell me that ‘she’s diving like a senior’ – meaning she is composed and consistent in her competition.”

Eaglestone logged her finest end of the weekend with a 200.35 record rating, which marked her highest end in finals since inserting third on platform ultimately season’s Big 12 Championships. Annalise Shrader (157.30) and Cierra Cole (142.65) additionally competed of their first collegiate platform occasion.

On the lads’s aspect, Attila Bernatsky led the way in which for the Utes with a 280.70 record rating, ending in thirteenth place, adopted simply behind by Elias Petersen in fifteenth with a 270.50. Alex Just positioned seventeenth with a 263.70.

“I like what this meet did for us and it sets us up well to excel at Princeton in a few weeks,” Marschner concluded.

Looking Ahead
Utah swimming will get within the water in a distinct a part of Texas this week when the SMU Invitational begins in Dallas on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Ute divers return to motion on Thursday, Dec. 4, for the primary day of the Big Al Invitational in Princeton, N.J.

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