BLOOMINGTON – Competing at their home pool, Amy Cozad (Indianapolis, Ind.\/Bloomington, Ind.) and Jessica Parratto (Dover, N.H.\/Bloomington, Ind.) are in first and second place in the women\u2019s 10-meter contest after Friday\u2019s semifinals at the World Championship Trials at Indiana University\u2019s Councilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. Olympian Kristian Ipsen (Clayton, Calif.\/Stanford, Calif.) leads the men\u2019s 3-meter standings after semifinals, while Michael Hixon (Amherst, Mass.\/Bloomington, Ind.) is in second place. Two spots are available on each event for this summer\u2019s World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Scores are cumulative throughout the trials.<\/p>\n
Ipsen heads into Sunday\u2019s men\u2019s 3-meter final with 860.55 points after two lists of dives, with Hixon in second at 849.50 and Darian Schmidt (Bloomington, Ind.) in third at 837.55. Troy Dumais (Ventura, Calif.\/Austin, Texas) is in fourth place with 804.30 points despite failing his reverse 1 \u00bd with 3 \u00bd twists after a bad hurdle in the preliminaries.<\/p>\n
Ipsen and Hixon have already qualified for the World Championships on 1-meter, while Ipsen is also on the world team for synchronized 3-meter.<\/p>\n
Ipsen scored more than 80 points on his last three dives in the preliminaries, including 89.25 points on a reverse 3 \u00bd tuck and 84 points on his reverse 1 \u00bd with 3 \u00bd twists, to finish his preliminary list with 453.25 points for first place. His best dive in the semis was his reverse twister, which scored 80.50 points as he held onto the lead after the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Hixon was in third place after the preliminaries and held that spot until the fifth round of the semifinals when he scored 96.90 points on his front 4 \u00bd tuck. Schmidt, who was in second at that point, performed the same dive for just 55.10 points to allow Hixon to move ahead of him in the standings. Hixon closed out his semifinal list with an 81.60-points inward 3 \u00bd tuck to maintain the second spot heading into the finals.<\/p>\n
Cozad scored 695.30 points on two lists of dives to take the lead heading into Sunday\u2019s finals. Parratto is in second with 669.30 points, with Samantha \u201cMurphy\u201d Bromberg (Bexley, Ohio\/Austin, Texas) in third at 628.95 points. Cozad and Parrato have already qualified for the world team in synchronized 10-meter, while Bromberg has qualified in mixed synchronized 10-meter.<\/p>\n
Cozad scored 365.10 points on her first list of dives to lead after the preliminaries, in which she scored no lower 69.30 points on any of her six dives. She earned 75 points on her front 3 \u00bd pike and added 78.40 points on her inward 3 \u00bd tuck. In the semifinals, her best marks came with 72.60 points on her back 3 \u00bd tuck and 72 on her front 3 \u00bd pike.<\/p>\n
Parratto had the highest single-scoring dives of the day, with 79.20 points on both her back 3 \u00bd tuck and back armstand triple somersault in the preliminaries. In the semifinals, though, her back 3 \u00bd earned just 54. 45 points and her armstand scored 64.35 points to widen the gap between her and Cozad heading into the finals.<\/p>\n
The World Championship Trials run through Sunday. Saturday\u2019s competition features preliminaries and semifinals on women\u2019s 3-meter and men\u2019s 10-meter.<\/p>\n