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He entered the finals in second place after <span data-term=\"goog_1860241308\">Friday\u2019s<\/span> preliminaries and took the lead after scoring 72 points on his second-round reverse 1 \u00bd with 2 \u00bd twists in the finals. He scored 72 or more points on three other dives, including 79.90 on his inward 2 \u00bd pike in the last round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a great competition. You really can\u2019t miss. You have to be on your game the entire night. It was a lot of fun,\u201d Hixon said. \u201cI knew it was going to be a fight, and I just needed to stay in it one dive at a time. I missed my reverse twister a little bit in the prelims and went 72 in the finals. It\u2019s a good meet under my belt and it\u2019s nice to be back diving again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson started the night in fourth place after <span data-term=\"goog_1860241309\">Friday\u2019s<\/span> preliminaries but finished second with 805.35 points after scoring 72 points or more on four of six dives in the finals. Johnson\u2019s previous best finish on 1-meter at a U.S. nationals was 10<sup>th<\/sup> at the 2014 Winter National Championships, although he did win the 2015 NCAA title on 1-meter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was my first (U.S.) competition back from Rio. I\u2019ve been doing some college dual meets and for me, that\u2019s been really helpful to get me back in a springboard mode because I haven\u2019t done springboard for a year and a half,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI\u2019m just kind of relearning the ropes, and being able to have those meets prepare me for this one was really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Zeng<\/strong>, an Ohio State diver from China, finished third with 801.55 points but international divers are considered exhibition divers and cannot displace a U.S. athlete from receiving a medal or advancing to the next round so 2016 Olympian <strong>Sam Dorman<\/strong> (Tempe, Ariz.\/Miami, Fla.) was awarded the bronze medal after finishing with 780 points. Dorman led after the preliminaries but had only one dive score more than 70 points to allow others to overtake him.<\/p>\n<p>Also <span data-term=\"goog_1860241310\">on Monday<\/span>, <strong>Maria Coburn<\/strong> (Round Rock, Texas) sits atop the women\u2019s 3-meter standings after the semifinals. Zeng leads after the men\u2019s 10-meter semifinals, with <strong>David Dinsmore<\/strong> (New Albany, Ohio\/Miami, Fla.) as the top American qualifier in second place.<\/p>\n<p>A day after winning the women\u2019s 1-meter title, Coburn scored 550.30 points on her two lists of women\u2019s 3-meter dives in the preliminaries and semifinals to qualify for the finals in first place. <strong>Brooke Schultz <\/strong>(Fayetteville, Ark.), the 1-meter bronze medalist, heads into the 3-meter finals in second place with 537.00 points, and\u00a0<strong>Hailey Hernandez <\/strong>(Southlake, Texas) is third at 527.15.<\/p>\n<p>Zeng leads the 10-meter field with 933.00 points. Dinsmore is in second place, but first among Americans, and enters <span data-term=\"goog_1860241311\">Wednesday\u2019s<\/span> final with 882.45 points.\u00a0<strong>Christopher Law<\/strong> (San Antonio, Texas\/Columbus, Ohio) is third at 734.20 points.<\/p>\n<p>The USA Diving Winter National Championships continue through <span data-term=\"goog_1860241312\">Wednesday, December 21<\/span>. <span data-term=\"goog_1860241313\">Tuesday\u2019s<\/span> competition begins at <span data-term=\"goog_1860241314\">4:30 p.m.<\/span> and features finals in women\u2019s 10-meter, men\u2019s 3-meter and mixed synchronized diving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results \u2013 December 19, 2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s 1-meter final<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Michael Hixon (TriSynerG Diving Academy), 825.40; 2. Steele Johnson (Purdue University), 805.35; 3. Zhipeng Zeng (Unattached), 801.55; 4. Samuel Dorman (University of Miami), 780.00; 5. Briadam Herrera (University of Miami), 760.15; 6. 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