{"id":493803,"date":"2021-12-17T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=493803"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:12:49","slug":"diving-winter-nationals-14-year-old-joshua-hedberg-qualifies-for-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/diving-winter-nationals-14-year-old-joshua-hedberg-qualifies-for-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving Winter Nationals: 14-Year-Old Joshua Hedberg Qualifies for Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diving Winter Nationals: 14-Year-Old Joshua Hedberg Qualifies for Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joshua Hedberg<\/strong> booked a spot in next year\u2019s FINA World Championships on Friday at the USA Diving Winter Nationals, the 14-year-old becoming the youngest American male ever to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Hedberg scored 832.10 points to finish second on the 10-meter platform to <strong>Zach Cooper<\/strong> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/usadiving.ticketspice.com\/2021-usa-diving-winter-national-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penultimate night of the competition<\/a>. That earns Hedberg, a product of the Indiana International School of Diving, a spot at Worlds next year in Fukuoka, Japan. He will be 15 years and four months old then, three months younger than the previous youngest ever American male diver (<strong>Thomas Finchum,<\/strong> 2005 Worlds). Hedberg had finished fourth at Olympic Trials earlier this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: 14 year old Joshua Hedberg qualifies for 2022 FINA World Championships <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GkXUujAC6B\">pic.twitter.com\/GkXUujAC6B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA Diving (@USADiving) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USADiving\/status\/1471990002309640198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cooper took top honors, the University of Miami senior tallying 839.85 points. <strong>Carson Tyler <\/strong>of the Indiana University finished third, ahead of 14-year-old <strong>Tyler Wills<\/strong> in his first senior competition.<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, <strong>Hailey Hernandez<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Bacon<\/strong> each <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/usa-diving-nationals-sarah-bacon-brooke-schultz-tyler-downs-andrew-capobianco-qualify-for-for-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned a second dive<\/a> at the World Championships by going 1-2 in the women\u2019s 3-meter springboard. Hernandez, who dives for the University of Texas, pulled away on her final dive to score 656.75 points and get the win. Minnesota\u2019s Bacon followed with 649.75 points. Third was <strong>Kristen Hayden<\/strong> of Indiana, followed by Stanford\u2019s <strong>Carolina Sculti<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Diving Winter nationals warps up Saturday with the men\u2019s 1-meter springboard and women\u2019s platform individual events.<\/p>\n<h4>Women\u2019s 3-Meter Springboard<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Hailey Hernandez, TEX, 656.75<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Bacon, U, 649.75<\/li>\n<li>Kristen Hayden, JDA, 593.50<\/li>\n<li>Carolina Sculti, U, 588.70<\/li>\n<li>Mia Vallee, MIAF, 575.45<\/li>\n<li>Margo O&#8217;Meara, U, 568.60<\/li>\n<li>Bridget O&#8217;Neil, TEX, 533.05<\/li>\n<li>Anne Fowler, JDA, 518.80<\/li>\n<li>Emily Pfeiffer, U, 499.20<\/li>\n<li>Amelia Rinehart, IISD, 498.95<\/li>\n<li>Abigail Knapton, U, 496.35<\/li>\n<li>Lily Witte, U, 483.90<\/li>\n<li>Mackenzie Crawford, U, 483.15<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Men\u2019s 10-Meter Platform<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Zach Cooper, MIAF, 839.85<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Hedberg, IISD, 832.10<\/li>\n<li>Carson Tyler, JDA, 778.05<\/li>\n<li>Tyler Wills, RIP, 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