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Southampton Diving Academy recently had a success at the ASA South East Regional Age Group competition. This competition was a qualifying event for the ASA National Age Group Diving Championships held in Sheffield’s Ponds Forge in July. The event was carried out over two weekends and was hosted by SDA at The Quays, Southampton, on 10^th May and 18^th May. Clubs from the South East region attended including West Wilts, Albatross (Reading) and Star (Guildford) and a guest team from Crystal Palace who took part in the ‘open’ event.

The team scooped an impressive 34 South East Regional medals over the two weekends, 17 Gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze.

With some outstanding diving and topping the medals table for the South East Region were two SDA divers. Taking Gold on all three boards, 1m springboard, 3m springboard and Platform, were Angus Kerr in the boys 10/11 Years and Thomas Graham in the boys 16+ Years. Both boys dived remarkably well over both weekends and saw their hard work and determination in training pay off by winning the titles of South East Regional Champion on all three boards.

Also winning in two events were Tia Pritchard in the girls 10/11 Years and Scott Palmer in the boys 14/15 Years. Tia achieved gold on the 1m springboard and 5m platform and Scott, who only competed on 1m & 3m springboard, won gold in both his events.

Others winning gold and achieving Championship titles were, Jessica Bennett, Rhys Crookes, Cameron Gammage, Dylan Lakeman-Brown, Amy Pritchard, Katie McArthur and William Osborne.

Evelyna Johnson, although new to this level of diving took bronze in the platform event in the girls 10/11 years.

In the girls in the 12/13 Years age group Jessica Bennett and Jade Brindley shared the top spots on the springboards where Jessica won Gold on 3m and bronze on 1m and Jade won silver on 1m and bronze on 3m. Newcomer to this level, Serena Torpey impressed, to win the Silver in the platform event where Jade also picked up a bronze medal to complete a hat trick of medals.

The boys 12/13 Years saw all three golds won by separate divers. 1m gold medallist was Rhys Crookes, achieving a massive 216 points, 3m gold went to Dylan Lakeman-brown and the platform event was won by Cameron Gammage. Other medal winners in this age group were Tyler Lane winning the silver in the 1m event and Thomas Bailey winning bronze on platform.

Katie McArthur won medals on all three boards in the girls 14/15 years, Gold on Platform, silver on 3m and bronze on 1m whilst team mate Amy Pritchard took gold in the 1m event and bronze in the platform event. Nicole Van Hoof, also a newcomer to this level, won bronze in the 3m event.

Joining Scott Palmer on the podium in the boys 14/15 years were teammates William Osborne and Robbie Brodie, William won gold on platform and bronze in the 3m event whilst Robbie achieved the silver in the 1m event.

Several of Southampton Diving Academys Elite divers also took part in this competition as guest divers in preparation for their National Junior Elite Championships which take place in Plymouth next week.

Lindsey Fraser, head coach said ‘these results were very impressive and I would like to congratulate the coaches and divers on these performances.’

Girls 10/11 Years

1m 1^st Tia Pritchard 4^th Collette Guyett-Smith

3m 2^nd Tia Pritchard 4^th Collette Guyett-Smith

Platform

1^st Tia Pritchard, 3^rd Evelyna Johnson

Boys 10/11 Years Platform

1m 1^st Angus Kerr

3m 1^st Angus Kerr

Platform

1^st Angus Kerr

Girls 12/13 Years

2^nd Jade Brindley, 3^rd Jessica Bennett , 5^th Serena Torpey , 6^th Mia Wood , 7^th Emily Adams , 8^th Lauren Bailey , 9^th Megan Curtis, 10^th Chloe Harrington, 11^th Gabrielle Kirkham

1^st Jessica Bennett , 3^rd Jade Brindley, 4^th Emily Adams, 5^th Lauren Bailey, 6th Serena Torpey , 8^th Chloe Harrington

Platform

2^nd Serena Torpey, 3^rd Jade Brindley , 4^th Lauren Bailey, 5^th Jessica Bennett

Girls 14/15 Years

1^st Amy Pritchard, 3^rd Katie McArthur, 4^th Nicole Van Hoof

2^nd Katie McArthur , 3^rd Nicole Van Hoof

Platform

1^st Katie McArthur , 3^rd Amy Pritchard, 4^th Nicole Van Hoof, 5^th Victoria Kennedy

Boys 14/15 Years

1^st Scott Palmer, 2^nd Robbie Brodie, 4^th William Osborne, 5^th Elliot Moorhouse

1^st Scott Palmer, 3^rd William Osborne, 4^th Robbie Brodie,

5^th Elliot Moorhouse

Platform

1^st William Osborne

Boys 12/13 Years

1m 1^st Rhys Crookes, 2^nd Tyler Lane , 4^th Thomas Bailey , 5^th Dylan Lakeman-Brown, 6^th Cameron Gammage , 10^th Reuben Brown, 11^th Jamie Bevan.

3m 1^st Dylan Lakeman-Brown, 2^nd Rhys Crookes, 4^th Tyler Lane, 6^thCameron Gammage, 7^th Thomas Bailey, 9^th Jamie Bevan, 10^th Reuben Brown

Platform 1^st Cameron Gammage, 2^nd Rhys Crookes, 3^rd Thomas Bailey, 5^th Dylan Lakeman-Brown, 6^th Tyler Lane, 9^th Jamie Bevan,

Boys 16+ Years

1m 1^st Thomas Graham

3m 1^st Thomas Graham

Platform 1^st Thomas Graham