Diving

Olympics: Jessica Parratto, Delaney Schnell Capture Silver for U.S. in 10-Meter Synchro Diving Jessica Parratto waited until the fifth and final dive Tuesday afternoon before she started looking around. She knew that she and fellow American Delaney Schnell had put themselves in a strong position in ...

Tom Daley and Matty Lee produced the combined performance of their diving lives to seal a stunning victory in the Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform and claim Olympic gold at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Returning to the scene of their triumph in the Diving World Cup earlier in the year, the British duo ...

Shi Tingmao, with Wang Han, Repeats as Women’s 3-Meter Synchro Champ Five years ago, Shi Tingmao won gold at the Rio Olympics alongside Wu Minxia. In Tokyo, Shi’s partner is different, but the result is the same. Shi and Wang Han dominated the women’s synchronized three-meter springboard final Sunda...

Former NCAA swimmers needed for brain imaging study! Compared to contact sports like American football, swimming poses less risk for traumatic brain injury, including concussion. Concussive hits are a concern in football, because the repeated concussive and subconcussive hits may contribute to ...

On Thursday, the City of Fort Lauderdale hosted the topping out ceremony to celebrate the last piece of steel being erected for the permanent 27m diving tower as part of the ongoing International Swimming Hall of Fame Aquatic Complex construction. The permanent high diving tower will be the first in...

Former NCAA swimmers needed for brain imaging study! Compared to contact sports like American football, swimming poses less risk for traumatic brain injury, including concussion. Concussive hits are a concern in football, because the repeated concussive and subconcussive hits may contribute to ...

On the final day of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Diving, four more athletes were selected to represent Team USA Diving at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. 17-year-old Tyler Downs, Andrew Capobianco, Delaney Schnell and Katrina Young punched their tickets to the games after two drama-filled events t...

Mike Parratto, who coaches Regan Smith at the Riptide Swim Team in Minnesota, is not yet in Omaha. Instead, he is in Indianapolis watching his daughter, Jessica, compete at the U.S. Olympic diving trials. The younger Parratto, 26, dove at the University of Indiana and has qualified for her second Ol...

University of Texas senior Jordan Windle and Purdue alum Brandon Loschiavo punched their tickets at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Diving. Loschiavo earned the top spot with an 18-dive total score of 1421.00 points, while Windle claimed runner-up honors at 1401.40 points. Windle easily out-distanced...

Former University of Texas star Alison Gibson and partner Krysta Palmer punched their ticket to the Tokyo Olympics by posting a 28-point victory on Thursday evening in the finals of the Women’s Synchronized 3-meter Springboard competition at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Diving. Gibson and Palmer b...

The last day of prelims and semifinals of the USA Diving Trials concluded today with the heavily contested Men’s 3-meter and Women’s 10-meter events. The first event of the day, and largest event of the competition, was the Men’s 3-meter where 34 divers took to the boards in the hopes of earning one...

USA Diving on Friday announced its 2021 High Performance Squad, divided between three tiers and junior and senior groups. The squad includes 24 divers in the Tier One High Performance Squad, with five divers in Tier Two. The Tier One squad includes Olympic medalists David Boudia, Michael Hixon and S...

NC State swimming and diving head coach Braden Holloway has rounded out his staff with the addition of Wesley Mattice as head diving coach. Mattice comes to Raleigh following three seasons as head diving coach at George Washington. Prior to his time at GW, he trained the nation's most elite youth di...

Great Britain diver Tom Daley received 10 perfect marks of 10.0 in the platform final, but not even those were enough against Russia’s Aleksandr Bondar, who put together a stunning gold-medal performance at the European Championships. The women's diving had similar drama as the slimmest winning mar...

In the closing event in artistic swimming at the European Championships, Ukraine came closer to Russia in the gold medal race (6-4) as they won the Highlights Routine. Belarus finished second and host Hungary claimed its first-ever medal in artistic swimming, a bronze. With eight podium finishes in...

The Russian duet of Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko continued to dominate artistic swimming, earning one perfect mark for the free routine at the European Championships. Another Russian gold came in the mixed duet while Ukraine won the team free and Israel claimed a historic first-eve...

South Carolina head coach Jeff Poppell announced the final addition to his new coaching staff as Dale Schultz was named diving coach for the University of South Carolina on Thursday. Schultz boasts more than 30 years of collegiate coaching experience at Arkansas (1989-2000, 2008-13, 2016-21), Florid...

As the European Championships moved int0 Day 3 in Budapest, the Italians earned gold in the mixed 3-meter synchronized diving event. Chiara Pellacani and Matteo Santoro posted the most balanced performance, with the 14-year-old Santoro earning a trip to the top of the podium. The Italians were so c...

Australian Diver, Matthew Mitcham is credited with having received the highest single-dive score in Olympic history.  At the 2008 Olympic Games, in Beijing, China, Mitcham chose to execute a two-and-one-half somersault with two-and-one-half twists in the pike position for his last dive.  The dive ha...

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...