﻿{"id":436036,"date":"2020-06-16T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=436036"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T20:38:06","slug":"leonardo-garcia-ncaa-diving-qualifier-transfers-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/leonardo-garcia-ncaa-diving-qualifier-transfers-to-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Garcia, NCAA Diving Qualifier, Transfers to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida men&#8217;s swimming and diving team officially announced the addition of diver <strong>Leonardo Garcia<\/strong>, a 2020 NCAA Championships qualifier, to the program as a transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia will join the Gators after a successful freshman season at the University of Missouri. He finished his first collegiate season at the NCAA Zone D Diving Championships, securing an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with a sixth-place finish on the 3-meter springboard.<\/p>\n<p>In his first SEC Championships on Feb. 18-23, he posted a pair of top-eight finishes, tallying a fourth-place nod on the platform and finishing in eighth-place on 3-meter. Both scores were his best of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The postseason success was no surprise after the Cali, Colombia native posted six wins throughout the regular season, four on 3-meter and two on 1-meter, and earned SEC Men&#8217;s Diver of the Week on Oct. 8, 2019 after sweeping the springboards at Missouri&#8217;s Show-Me Showdown on Oct. 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia will leave the Tigers with the fifth-best 3-meter and platform score in program history, as well as the eighth-highest 1-meter score ever.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Garcia competed at the 2017 Junior Pan American Diving Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very excited to have Leo joining the Gators,&#8221; said Head diving coach\u00a0<strong>Bryan<i> <\/i>Gillooly<\/strong>. &#8220;He is a special diver with tons of drive and talent, as well as a being great young man. Expect some fireworks when he dives because he is capable of perfection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Garcia will sit out the 2020-21 season due to NCAA transfer rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/sec-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More SEC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with Florida Athletics<\/i><i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i> <b><i>Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida men&#8217;s swimming and diving team officially announced the addition of diver Leonardo Garcia, a 2020 NCAA Championships qualifier, to the program as a transfer. 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