SDA take the title for 2^nd consecutive year!

Southampton Diving Academy recently sent a team of novice divers to The Albatross Interclub 2014 competition in Reading. They returned with 5 medals and retained the Team Trophy.

This competition allows the novice divers to move away from their basic skill set to compete with more complicated dives, performing four dives each from poolside and the 1m and 3m springboards.

SDA saw three of its divers achieve gold medals, with two more receiving a silver and a bronze, all impressing the judges and scoring over 100 points each.

In the 8-9 years Milo French won Gold for the boys by a comfortable 13 points and Dulcie Wilson took the gold for the girls. Teammate Evie Brighton fell short of the bronze medal position by an agonising 0.25 points.

Milly Batten, competing in the Girls 10-11 years, scored a massive 135.95 points to secure SDA’s third gold medal, this score was the second highest score of the meeting, only surpassed by a boy competing in the 16-18 years. Victoria Ward joined Milly on the podium to receive the bronze medal in this event.

Ethan Bennett won SDA’s bronze medal in the boys 10-11 years.

Many SDA divers had a very successful competition and several of them earned points which assisted in achieving first place in the team event for the second consecutive year.

Girls 8-9 yrs

1^st Dulcie Wilson, 4^th Evie Brighton

Boys 8-9 yrs

1^st Milo French, 4^th Robbie Lee, 7^th Leon Baker, 9^th Bryn James, 10^th Jake Chandler

Girls 10-11 yrs

1^st Milly Batten, 3^rd Victoria Ward, 6^th Sofia Sathio, 11^th Amy Leneve, 15^th Leah Burnston 18^th , 20^th Lucy Chandler,21^st Grace Hill, 24^th Amelia Newman, 26^th Maya Kutty, 27^th Holly Hopgood, 28^th Olive Ullyatt, 29^th Ciara-Lily Sturrock, 31^st Olivia Perera, 32^nd Simone Habben, 34^th Poppy Chandler

Boys 10-11 yrs

3^rd Ethan Bennett,5^th James Madden, 6^th Nathan Bull, 8^th Alex Walton, 10^th Ashley Burnard, 16^th Thomas Macfadyen, 17^th Hamish Lindsay, 19^th Thomas Crew, 24^th Oakley Clarke, 26^th Tyler Rose

Girls 12-13 yrs

5^th Ella Anderson, 15^th Liberty West, 18^th Ysabella Foster, 22^nd Olivia Ward, 23^rd India Bari, 26^th Kelsey Mills, 27^th Chloe Davis

Boys 12-13 yrs

11^th Thomas Kelly, 14^th Oliver Clements

Girls 14-15 yrs

7^th Suzanna Burt, 9^th Abbie Wilson, 10^th Abigail Wales

Boys 14-15 yrs

4^th Jacob Batchelor, 6^th Joseph Parkes