2019 All Star Challenge Invitational
2019 All Star Challenge Invitational
February 1-3***Orlando, FL
Thirteen diving teams competed at the YMCA of Central Florida (YCF) in the All Star Challenge, nine from Florida, three from the Midwest, and one from Georgia.
Team Awards
Boys: Moss Farms Diving from Moultrie, GA won the Men’s Team Award. Pine Crest Diving Boys team placed 5th behind Ohio State Diving, YCF Diving, and RipFest.
Coach Janet Gabriel, Allen Levitis, Danyal Ghadiali, Jhordon Quintero, Liam Freeman and Ashton Jacobi
Girls: The host YCF Team won the Women’s Team Award and the Overall Team Award. Pine Crest Girls Team placed 10th.
Overall (Combined Men and Women):
In the Overall Team Championship Award, Pine Crest Diving placed 6th behind, YCF, RipFest, Moss Farms, Ohio State, and Nebraska Diving and ahead of the eight other Florida diving teams that attended.
Individual High Point Awards
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Allen Levitis competed in 12-13 B1-m and B3-m and also finaled in his first Men’s 1-m event scoring 34 team points to place 10th. In the Mens 1-m finals, Allen was diving well, but in the 4th round he slipped on his 303c- reverse 11/2 takeoff and took a really hard smack on his back. He could have bailed and come out at a single somersault but instead of failing the dive for zero points, he chose to hold on and tried to rotate enough to enter the water head-first. His average score was 1.5 points. Allen finished in 7th place. On the podium, in recognition of the will-to-win the youngest diver in the finals demonstrated, the winner, a senior diver from YCF, the host team, Emanuel Vazquez (Manny), put his 1st place medal around Allen’s neck. |
Men
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Women Sophia Cavaretta ranked 26th in Individual Awards by scoring 20 team points, the most points for the Pine Crest Girls’ team members. |
Open Women’s 1-m
At the All Star Challenge in senior events the top 8 places score team points. Three Age Group divers, 8th Grader, Ava Andersen (16th) and 10th graders, Kaylee Greenberg (11th) and Sophia Souza (14th), competed in their first Senior Women’s 1-m event prelims. Nineteen year old senior, Ishani Singh placed 10th.
Open 3-m Single Elimination Tournament
The feature event of the All Star Challenge is the Women and Men’s 3-m Single Elimination Tournament. Winning this contest requires the diver to compete 4 lists of optional dives back-to-back. The top 8 from prelims advance to four Semis A,B,C,D (A-1st vs 8th, B- 4th vs 5th, C- 2nd vs 7th and D- 3rd vs 6th). The losers are out of the contest and the winners of each semis advance to Finals A and B. (Finals A is the winners of Semis A vs B and Finals B is the winners of Semis C vs D). The two winners of Finals A and B compete in the Championship event to determine the winner. Ishani Singh placed 9th in the W3m prelims, 6.9 points from advancing to the Semis. Kaylee Greenberg, Sophia Souza and Ava Andersen competed in the prelims of their first Open Women’s 3-m event.
FINA Age Group Events
The All Star Challenge Invitational uses FINA rules. FINA is the International Governing Body for Aquatic Sports. For Age Group events, that means divers perform one less optional dive than USA Diving rules.
Boys Group D (11&U)
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Jhordan Quintero placed 2nd on 1-m and 6th on 3-m. Ashton Jacobi placed 9th on 1-m and 7th on 3-m. Liam Freeman placed 8th on 1-m and 10th on 3-m. |
Pine Crest Diving 11&U Boys All Star Challenge Team:
Liam Freeman, Jhordan Quintero, Ashton Jacobi
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In their age-group 1-m and 3-m events, Daniel Ghadiali and Allen Levitis tied in team points, both scoring 22 points. After starting diving this fall, Danyal Ghadiali placed 3rd on both 1-m and 3-m in his first USA Diving competition. Allen placed 2nd on 1-m and 4th on 3-m. |
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Boys Group C (12-13)
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Danyal Ghadiali |
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Allen Levitis
Girls Group C (12-13)
Sophia Cavaretta placed 5th on both 1-m and 3-m. She competed two new dives, a 203c on 1-m and a 105c on 3-m.
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Sophia Cavaretta |
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Girls Group B (14-15) Ava Andersen, Callie Axelrod and Sarrah Ghadiali competed in both 1-m and 3-m events. Ava competed two new dives, 5233d and 205c, for the first time on 3-m. Callie and Sarrah were new to the club this fall and competed in their first USA Diving competition at the All Star Challenge. |
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Sarrah Ghadiali, Callie Axelrod, Ava Andersen |
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Group A (16-18) The All Star Challenge was a first-time experience for sixteen year old Sophia Souza and Kaylee Greenberg. They aged up this year and competed for their first time in Group A in both 1-m and 3-m. On 3-m each competed a 205c for their first time. This is the first meet, Ava Andersen, Sophia Sousa and Kaylee Greenberg have competed in 4 events in one meet, two Age Group 1-m and 3-m and two Senior 1-m and 3-m. |
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Sophia Souza and Kaylee Greenberg |
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Many thanks to two-time Olympian, Mark Ruiz, YCF’s Head Coach, for hosting this valuable learning experience early in the season to help the divers and coaches evaluate which dives in their list need more skill emphasis and repetitions. |
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