Diving Hosts Platform Invitational – Rutgers University Athletics

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers diving squad is in motion this Saturday for a diving-only competitors on the Rutgers Aquatics Center. RU hosts the Rutgers Platform Invitational on Saturday, beginning at 11 a.m. Scores can be out there at DiveMeets.com.

The competitors can be a singular occasion of platform diving. Rutgers would be the host web site, with each women and men set to compete. There are 12 divers entered on the ladies’s facet, with six Scarlet Knights registered, as Sephora Ford, Katerina Hoffman, Gianna Lawrence, Amelia Scott, Bailee Sturgill and Madilyn Varnum are set to compete. They are set to match up in opposition to divers from Princeton (Vivian Brennan, Liv Davidson, Charlotte Norman and Maggie Squire) in addition to UMass (Danielle Guerin and Khrystyna Yaremyn).

The Scarlet Knights boast a robust diving program, with the workforce inserting eighth nationally in the latest US PDCA Coaches Poll, which was launched on December 22. In the US PDCA energy rankings, by way of midseason meets, Rutgers is fourth nationally and third within the Big Ten in workforce twin meet energy rankings. The Scarlet Knights are additionally at the moment atop the workforce champ energy rankings.

In the platform dive, which RU is ready to compete on this weekend, Sephora Ford at the moment ranks third nationally, and first amongst Big Ten divers, within the particular person platform energy rankings. Ford has two occasion victories within the Platform dive this yr, on the Navy and Minnesota Invitationals. She scored a 317.7 at Navy, which ranks because the second-best rating all-time in Rutgers’ program historical past. Bailee Sturgill (third, 313.45), Katerina Hoffman (eighth, 273.65) and Amelia Scott (10^th 238.80) additionally see their profession prime rating within the platform dive rating among the many program’s finest all-time.

This would be the ultimate competitors for RU earlier than the Big Ten Championships. This yr’s convention championships can be held on the University of Minnesota from Feb. 18-21.