What is Diving?
What Is Diving and How Does It Work?
* For High School, the divers do six dives during the dual meet
season and eleven for the post-season Championship meets - Mid Penns, Districts
and States.
* The diving we do is referred to as "1 Meter
Springboard"
* Each Team (Boys and Girls are separate teams) is able to enter a
maximum of three divers per dual meet.
* Occasionally, a team will bring some exhibition divers from
other teams to dive with them. Their dives don't count in the dual meet
scoring, but their scores do count for the diver in terms of their post-season
entries.
* The diving is usually held after the 50 Free and before the 100
Butterfly, however at Shippensburg it's before all of the swimming
events. They disassemble the board(s) for the swimming portion of the
meet.
* Some pools are not able to support diving (they may not be deep
enough) and, therefore, diving is not held nor scored during those dual meets.
* The diving score for a dual meet with three judges is determined
by adding up the three judge scores (i.e. 4, 3.5 and 3 = 10.5) and multiplying
that total by the degree of difficulty associated with the dive. If this
particular dive had a degree of difficulty (or "DD") of 2.0, the dive
score would be 10.5x2.0=21.0 points.
* The scores for all six dives are added up to determine the
diver's total score for the competition. The divers' finish order is then
determined by who had the most total points, followed by the next highest and
the next highest, etc.
Remember to cheer and applaud loudly for our Northern divers!!!
For more information on diving please go to - http://www.usadiving.org/about/diving-101/