Ladies Swimming & Diving: Windsor’s Reagan Annable Units Meet Document With 4A State Title

THORNTON — The final two instances that Windsor’s Reagan Annable ascended the rostrum on the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center for the Class 4A state diving championships, she stood only one step away from the head, which on the time belonged to Niwot’s Izzy Fay.

On Thursday, in the identical meet, for her remaining journey, she rose all the best way to the highest, and there was little doubt who would reign queen in 2026 as soon as the ninth of 11 rounds concluded. She ended her day with a gold in hand and a state report of 588.20 factors.

“It feels amazing. I have worked really hard to get here, and my diving world has been a little up and down this past year, so it’s nice to have all my hard work pay off,” she stated. “Honestly, my sophomore year, I was just really happy, because my freshman year I got 17th place. So then making a huge jump like that was a big accomplishment. I ended up breaking my school’s record, so I was just happy. 

“And then my junior year, I got second to Izzy Fay again, and we were teammates. It was just fun competing against her, and then I knew that we had both worked hard for what we had accomplished, so it wasn’t really a disappointment.”

To safe her state title, Annable included an inward double — one which requires a excessive diploma of issue — in her fourth dive. She stated she hadn’t used it in a contest since final yr’s state meet, and didn’t apply it altogether for 10 months, when she was bouncing round from membership to membership as a result of her unique staff shuttered.

Once she was in a position to clear that dive with a positive rating, it was easy crusing from there. She ended the meet with simplicity to maintain herself relaxed.

“I do the math, and I’m like, ‘OK, I know what I need to win,’” Annable defined. “I purposely made my last dive an easier dive, so I didn’t have the jitters, because I knew I would feel like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is my last dive I’ll ever compete for high school, which is so sad.’ I know this is one of my dives that I’m the most confident with, so I was really happy that I did my last dive as a back dive.”

As far as Windsor coach Ryan Palmer is aware of, she’s the primary state champion diver to ever grace the Wizards’ halls. He stated that for the reason that second she stepped on campus, she’s been the form of teammate that each coach desires of — all the time supportive, all the time cheering on the opposite women.

He stated she set the usual for diving at Windsor. Next yr, she heads to Wyoming.

“Coming into today, it wasn’t a shoo-in by any means,” Palmer stated. “She still had to go out and earn it. I think after the first two or three rounds, she was down to (Golden’s Myranda Macmillan) by about 22 points. It was a pretty big margin to come back by, but she executed some really difficult dives when she needed to, and that definitely helped her out in the long run.

“I’ve seen substantial growth from her year-after-year. She’s had a combination of club diving over the last several years, as well as high school diving. A lot of that comes down to her as an athlete. You can go over techniques and all of that stuff, but at the end of the day it comes down to the diver themselves, and she’s incredible, truly incredible.”

Other high finishers within the occasion embody Golden’s Myranda MacMillan, who completed second with a rating of 574.60, Pueblo South’s Autumn Zumpf (third, 515.80), Niwot’s Genevieve Saunders (fourth, 511.15), Standley Lake’s Kira White (fifth, 472.85), Lewis-Palmer’s Paige Ehresman (sixth, 464.35), Pueblo County’s Lily Nibert (seventh, 463.80), Niwot’s Sienna Wood (eighth, 452.25), Liberty’s Nicole West (ninth, 435.95) and Mountain View’s Madeline Clark (tenth, 432.25).