Thursday, November 19, 1998
Diving briefs
BRIEF:
The UCLA women’s diving team enters the Trojan Diving
Invitational today at USC’s McDonald aquatic facility. Thirteen
teams are competing in the three-day meet and the top teams include
USC, BYU, Texas and Stanford.
Thursday features the women’s 3-meter springboard as well as
men’s 1-meter board events. On Friday, women will compete in the
one-meter board and men will compete in the 3-meter board. The
platform events will be held on Saturday. All preliminaries start
at 10 a.m. while Thursday and Friday’s finals start at 3p.m.
All Bruins will dive, but only three divers are allowed to
officially compete. UCLA sophomores Anne Baghramian, Delilah More
and Ami Achrekar are likely to score high while freshman Liz
Ackerman is steadily rising.
The invitational is not a conference event, but scores can count
to qualify divers in the NCAA regional zone meet. Baghramian has
already qualified in the three-meter board and she’s aiming to do
the same in the one-meter board.
The USC diving team, which is hosting the event, will also put
on a performance.
With this meet being in the same format as the Pac-10 and NCAA
championships, USC diving coach Jeff Shaffer says this is the first
time his divers will do championship-quality dives. He also says
everyone can take advantage of this meet to assess oneself right
before the winter break.
"It gives us a barometer as to what our strengths and weaknesses
are," Shaffer said of the invitational. "We’ll use the scores as
scales to break down and improve upon."
The Trojan Diving Invitational is the last meet the Bruins
compete before the winter break. As with USC and many other teams,
they plan to set the standards for themselves through this early
season closure and work on bettering their dives come January.
Notes compiled by Steve Kim, Daily Bruin Senior Staff
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