On Sunday 22nd February a team of rising stars travelled to Southampton to compete in The Gavin Brown Diving Competition. The team consisted of Isabel Holloway, Molly Lefever, James Ridley, Aiden Jones, Zackary Cooper, Milly Orgill, Alfie Cook, William Frewin and Katie Wright.
First to dive were Isabel and Molly in Girls 10-11 age group. Isabel put in a consistent set of dives, doing especially well on her Inward dive tuck and reverse dive tuck both from the 1 metre board to finish in second place. Molly also diving very well in her first competition away from Reading, scored high marks for her back dive tuck from 1 metre. In what was a very tight competition, Molly was just edged out of the top three to take fourth place.
In the boys 10-11 age group saw James, Zachary and Aiden were diving. Aiden put in a very good set of dives, scoring well on his forward pike fall from the 3 Metre board to take 16th place. Zachary scored well on his forward tuck roll from 3 metre. After having a steady contest Zachary took 12th place. Our highest placed diver in this event was James doing well with all his dives to finish in 9th place.
Our divers in the boys 12-13 age group were Alfie and William. Alfie had a very good competition, doing exceptionally well on his Inward dive from 1 and 3 metre to finish in 7th place. William had an exceptional contest scoring an average of 32 points for all of his dives in the contest. William successfully won Albatross its first Gold medal of the day. He also won the trophy for the most outstanding diver of the day.
Milly was diving in the girls 12-13 age group. Milly put in a strong performance and scoring well on her inward dive from 1 metre. Milly’s consistency won her the Bonze medal. The last competitor of the day was Katie in the girls 14-18 age group. Katie had a good competition scoring 32 points for her inward dive tuck off 3 metre. Katie finished in 4th place after just missing out on a top three position.
