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Her level of experience and competitiveness is very high, and she\u2019ll make an immediate impact on our program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a representative of Italy in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Chiara Pellacani competed in the three-meter synchronized diving event. She finished in seventh place alongside her partner, <strong>Elena Bertocchi,<\/strong> with a score of 267.48.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/category\/college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More college news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pellacani, in addition to her participation at the 2020 Summer games, has garnered several other impressive honors. At the 2021 FINA Diving World Cup, she placed third and collected the bronze medal on the three-meter synchronized dive. She also has shined at the European Championships, where she has earned a medal seven times (three gold, three silver, and one bronze). Five of those medals came in the 2021 edition of the championships.<\/p>\n<p>Chiara Pellacani is set to join the Tigers in the Spring of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with LSU Athletics. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo Olympian Chiara Pellacani received official approval to join the LSU Swimming and Diving team, head diving coach Doug Shaffer announced. \u201cChiara is a fantastic addition to our program,\u201d LSU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":491393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[128418,61514,64235,46364],"class_list":["post-491392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-diving","tag-chiara-pellacani","tag-lsu-diving","tag-lsu-swimming","tag-sec-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Chiara Pellacani, Italian Olympic Diver, Will Join LSU in Spring Semester<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chiara Pellacani, Italian Olympic Diver, Will Join LSU in Spring Semester. 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