Parratto, Cozad, Dorman and Ipsen Headed to Worlds With Wins at USA Diving Synchronized National Championships

Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

GREENSBORO – Jessica Parratto (Dover, N.H./Bloomington, Ind.) and Amy Cozad (Indianapolis, Ind./Bloomington, Ind.) punched their tickets to this summer’s World Championships in women’s synchronized 10-meter, while Sam Dorman (Tempe, Ariz./Coral Gables, Fla.) and Kristian Ipsen (Clayton, Calif./Stanford, Calif.) qualified for Worlds in synchronized 3-meter after winning their respective events at the USA Diving Synchronized National Championships on Saturday. Jackson Miller (Southlake, Texas) and Brady Ruth (Trophy Club, Texas) won the 13-and-under boys’ 1-meter title.

Dorman and Ipsen scored 853.38 points over two lists of 3-meter synchro dives to earn the national title and a trip to the World Championships. The pair scored 414.93 points on their first list to sit in third place – 15.18 points out of first – after the preliminaries. They came back with 438.45 points in the finals to secure the national title. Dorman and Ipsen took the lead after their fifth round front 3 ½ pike scored 80.91 points, while the two teams ahead of them — coincidentally teams they also were a part of — missed their dives in that same round. They closed out their list with 90.30 points on their reverse 1 ½ with 3 ½ twists to maintain the lead.

Ipsen and Dorman also finished in the top three with Troy Dumais (Ventura, Calif./Austin, Texas), as divers could compete on more than one team. Ipsen and Dumais, the 2012 Olympic bronze medalists in 3-meter synchro, finished second with 834.81 points, and Dorman and Dumais scored 804.75 points for third.

“I’m super tired now. It wasn’t too difficult (diving with more than one partner) because we all do similar hurdles and similar back presses. It was a little confusing having to think before we went what dive we were doing next. Our orders were completely different, and I had to keep looking at the sheet to make sure we were doing the right dive. Other than that, it wasn’t too bad. It was pretty fun, actually,” Ipsen said. “I’m excited. We’re both finishing up college, so we’re going to be able to get in a little more training time together, which will be nice. Before this, the last time Sam and I trained together was U.S. nationals in Ohio in December. I feel like we’ll be able to perfect some of the little things before Worlds.”

Cozad and Parratto finished with 612.30 points over two lists of dives in the women’s 10-meter synchronized final. They were 4.98 points behind 2008 Olympian Mary Beth Dunnichay (Elwood, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.) and Delaney Schnell (Tucson, Ariz.) heading into the final. Cozad and Parratto scored more than 72 points on all three of their optional dives in the final, including 77.76 points on their inward 3 ½ tuck in round four to move into the lead.

“It really made me mad getting second in prelims, which was perfect because I came into finals with a fighting attitude. There was no way I was going to give up, because I was going to be on this world team. I’m so excited. It’s where we’re supposed to be,” Cozad said.

Dunnichay and Schnell finished second with 599.88 points, and Samantha “Murphy” Bromberg (Bexley, Ohio/Austin, Texas) and Emma Ivory-Ganja (The Woodlands, Texas/Austin, Texas) scored 581.04 points for third.

Miller and Ruth scored 566.46 points over two lists of dives to come from behind to win the 13-and-under national title in synchronized 1-meter. They trailed Kevin Mendez (Lighthouse Point, Fla./PineCrest Diving) and Jordan Rzepka (Solon, Ohio/Cleveland Area Diving) by 8.82 after the preliminaries before coming back with 301.92 points on their second list of dives to take the gold medal. Mendez and Rzepka, who had won gold on 3-meter and platform earlier in the week, finished second with 560.64 points. Max Weinrich (Brookeville, Md.) won his third bronze medal of the week, this time with his Montgomery Dive Club teammate Ethan Badrian (Silver Spring, Md.). They finished third with 496.62 points.

The Synchronized National Championships come to a close Sunday with men’s 10-meter synchro, women’s 3-meter synchro and girls’ 13-and-under 1-meter synchro.

Results

13andU – Synchro. Boys 1m Springboard (Final)

1. Jackson Miller (GC Diving) / Brady Ruth (Unattached), 566.46;2. Jordan Rzepka (Cleveland Area Diving) / Kevin Mendez (Pine Crest Diving), 560.64;3. Maxwell Weinrich (Montgomery Dive Club) / Ethan Badrian (Montgomery Dive Club), 496.62;4. Nicholas Harris (West Chester Diving) / Logan Choma (Unattached), 486.90;5. Maxwell Weinrich (Montgomery Dive Club) / Tyler Downs (Clayton Diving Alliance), 479.34;6. Dash Glasberg (Trojan Dive Club) / Ren Terwey (Stanford Diving), 466.14;7. Chase Marafioto (San Antonio Divers) / Marcel Mateos-salles (Unattached), 452.34;8. Quinn Henninger (Mile High Dive Club) / Clayton Chaplin (Mile High Dive Club), 446.04;9. Jacob Fisher (Alexandria Dive Club) / Max Fowler (Alexandria Dive Club), 444.45;10. Nicholas Harris (West Chester Diving) / Alec Pirone (West Chester Diving), 431.40;11. Quinn Henninger (Mile High Dive Club) / Jack Ryan (Mile High Dive Club), 420.96;12. Jacob Fisher (Alexandria Dive Club) / Finnian Gelbach (Alexandria Dive Club), 39 4.98;

Eliminated after preliminaries

13. Finnian Gelbach (Alexandria Dive Club) / Max Fowler (Alexandria Dive Club), 200.31;14. Jack Ryan (Mile High Dive Club) / Oliver Mills (Mile High Dive Club), 198.42;15. Ioannis Schattman (High Dive Champions) / Reid Gerken (High Dive Champions), 183.72

Synchronized Men 3m Springboard (Final)

1. Samuel Dorman (University of Miami) / Kristian Ipsen (Stanford Diving), 853.38;2. Troy Dumais (Longhorn Aquatics) / Kristian Ipsen (Stanford Diving), 834.81;3. Samuel Dorman (University of Miami) / Troy Dumais (Longhorn Aquatics), 804.75;4. Michael Hixon (TriSynerG Diving Academy) / Darian Schmidt (TriSynerG Diving Academy), 795.57;5. Cory Bowersox (Longhorn Aquatics) / Zachary Nees (Penn State Diving), 757.05;6. Henry Fusaro (Clavadistas del Sol) / Dashiell Enos (University of Southern California), 687.81;7. Jack Nyquist (North Carolina Diving) / Michael Mosca (Harvard Diving), 666.63;8. Bryce Klein (Unattached) / Bradley Christensen (Stanford Diving), 627.84;9. Briadam Herrera (University of Miami) / Aaron Fleshner (Alabama Diving), 326.28;10. Cameron Thatcher (Ohio State Diving Club) / Grayson Campbell (Dominion Dive Club), 314.79;11. Andrew Capobianco (Duke Diving) / Max Showalter (Duke Diving), 283.56;12. Kyle Goodwin (Mile High Dive Club) / Joseph Cifelli (Windy City Diving), 283.20;

Eliminated after preliminaries

13. Kyle Goodwin (Mile High Dive Club) / Alan Leblang (Mile High Dive Club), 279.00;14. Ian Shelton (Montgomery Dive Club) / Bradley Buchter (Soaring Eagles Dive Club), 278.88;15. Colten Young (Mission Viejo) / Matthew Casillas (Mission Viejo), 277.14;16. Benjamin Schiesl (Dominion Dive Club) / Gregory Duncan (Dominion Dive Club), 269.52;17. Casey Ponton (Woodlands Diving Academy) / Joshua Davidson (Woodlands Diving Academy), 262.71;18. Samson Miller (Unattached) / Connor Callahan (Duke Diving), 253.38;19. Justin Sodokoff (High Dive Champions) / Alec Decaprio (High Dive Champions), 240.12;20. Connor Scanlon (Unattached) / TJ Schenkel (Unattached), 232.89;21. Logan Knauss (Unattached) / John Crow (Montgomery Dive Club), 232.14;22. Devin Bellamy (Mile High Dive Club) / Alan Leblang (Mile High Dive Club), 190.08

Synchronized Women Platform (Final)

1. Jessica Parratto (TriSynerG Diving Academy) / Amy Cozad (TriSynerG Diving Academy), 612.30;2. Mary-Beth Dunnichay (Purdue University) / Delaney Schnell (Tucson Diving Team), 599.88;3. Emma Ivory-Ganja (Longhorn Aquatics) / Samantha Bromberg (Longhorn Aquatics), 581.04;4. Rachel Rubadue (Ohio State Diving Club) / Olivia Rosendahl (Unattached), 559.86;5. Johanna Holloway (Ft Lauderdale Diving Team) / Mya Kraeger (Team A and M Diving), 510.18;6. Cheyenne Cousineau (University of Miami) / Sarah McCrady (Unattached), 500.58;7. Emma Kraeger (Team A and M Diving) / Genevieve Angerame (Unattached), 395.25

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