Diving

On the fourth day of the FINA World Cup, Sarah Bacon, Samantha Pickens and Zachary Cooper competed in the Women’s 3-meter and Men’s 10-meter finals respectively. Bacon, who qualified second into the final round, continued her impressive performance into the final round scoring a total of 438.75 earn...

On the third day of the FINA World Cup Trials, Sarah Bacon and Samantha Pickens competed for the two Olympic Quota spots in the Women’s Three Meter Individual event for USA Diving. To qualify both available spots, Bacon and Pickens needed to place in the top 18 in the preliminary round, which would ...

Michael Hixon and Andrew Capobianco clinched an Olympic quota spot in Tokyo Sunday in the three-meter synchronized competition. The duo finished fourth at the FINA World Cup event in Tokyo, just a point and a half out of bronze with a score of 414.18. That earns them one of the 12 quota spots for th...

The first day of the 2021 FINA World Cup kicked off in Tokyo, Japan with the Women’s Three Meter Synchronized Diving Competition. USA Diving’s Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon took to the boards and qualified fifth for finals with a score of 273.24. Despite Cook suffering through a shoulder injury and d...

Divers Kassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon met at a young age. They quickly discovered that it wasn’t just their names that went together (I mean how can you beat Cook-Bacon?). They became friends despite living in different parts of the country and kept that friendship going while competing against each o...

USA Diving will be sending nine athletes to the 2021 FINA World Cup to take place in Tokyo, Japan May 1-6, 2021. Among the athletes are 2016 Olympians Kassidy Cook, Michael Hixon and Jessica Parratto as well as newly crowned NCAA Div. 1 Champions Sarah Bacon, Andrew Capobianco and Brandon Loschiavo....

Indiana University on Thursday announced the hiring of Eric Best as a volunteer assistant diving coach. Best spent 20 seasons at Michigan State as the head men’s and women’s diving coach, leading perennially one of the conference’s best programs. Best mentored numerous NCAA qualifiers and U.S. Olymp...

FINA has announced the re-scheduling of the FINA Diving World Cup for the new dates of May 1-6, 2021. The competition will take place in Tokyo, as originally planned, and will serve as both a qualification and test event for the Olympic Games, taking place from July 23-August 8, 2021 in the Japanese...

Texas diver Jordan Windle announced via Instagram Monday that he will return for a fifth year at the University of Texas. Windle is fresh off leading the Longhorns to their 15th national title. Tuesday, he was named the national diver of the year by the College Swim Coaches Association of America. W...

Purdue senior Brandon Loschiavo scored 469.05 points to win the platform diving title on Saturday night in Greensboro as he went 1-2 with fellow Boilermaker Ben Bramley (450.20). Loschiavo won ahead of defending champ Jordan Windle of Texas, who missed his third dive and ended up fourth at 422.75 be...

Indiana's Andrew Capobianco successfully defended his 3m national title on Friday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving Championships in Greensboro with 505.20 points. Capobianco last won the title as a freshman in 2019 as he won ahead of Texas' Jordan Windle (484.60), the winner...

Just when it looked like Cal might pull away early, the Texas Longhorns saved their best performances for last on Thursday, and made a statement that they weren’t going anywhere. A dominant performance on 1-meter diving and the 400 medley relay turned a 67-point deficit to 27 down heading into Day 3...

Texas' Jordan Windle led a huge 1-2 with Longhorn freshman Noah Duperre in the finals of 1m diving as Windle won at 435.60 ahead of Duperre's 405.45 to pick up 37 huge points for Texas in their pursuit of a 15th national title. Texas closed the gap to 33 points behind Cal Berkeley as they also picke...

Indiana freshman Tarrin Gilliland won the platform diving title on Saturday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Greensboro with 338.40 as she won ahead of Arizona junior Delaney Schnell (331.80) and Purdue's Maycey Vieta (316.80). Vieta was joined in the fina...

Minnesota Sarah Bacon backed up her 1m diving title on Friday night at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Greensboro with a win in the 3-meter springboard as the only to break 400 with 408.60. Bacon won her first 3-meter title at NCAAs as she now has four individual ...

Minnesota senior Sarah Bacon won her third straight 1-meter diving title on Thursday at the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships with 357.20 points to back up her titles from 2018 and 2019. Bacon is now the second swimmer to win the 1-m diving title at least three times as sh...

Michigan State senior diver Amanda Ling was honored as the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championship. Ling, an English major, has a perfect 4.0 GPA, and was presented with the award prior to the evening session at the Championship in Greens...

Alexei Vlasenko, head of Russia’s water polo, diving and synchronised swimming federations and a member of the Russian Olympic Committee's executive board, has been arrested over suspected fraud. Vlasenko, who is also chairman of the FINA diving technical committee and a member of the LEN bureau, fa...

The NC State swimming and diving program and head diving coach Yahya Radman have mutually agreed to part ways, as announced by head coach of the program Braden Holloway. "I am appreciative of Yahya's contributions to our program over the last seven seasons," said Holloway. "He has displayed a tremen...

Jordan Windle was prepared to help bring Texas another NCAA title. The 2020 NCAA Championships was poised to be an epic showdown between Texas and Cal. Windle knew that diving could make the difference in a meet that tight. But the meet was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and Windle and hi...