Results of UANA 6th Pan American Junior Diving Championship - September 28th

TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. divers added six more medals to Team USA’s medal count Saturday at the UANA Junior Pan American Diving Championships, bring the three-day total to 14 medals with one day of competition remaining.

Maria Coburn (Austin, Texas) won silver on 1-meter in the 12-13 girls age group, and the U.S. won bronze medals in five other events. On 3-meter, Alison Gibson (Austin, Texas) was third in the 14-15 girls age group and James Hopper (Old Greenwich, Conn.) took third in the 12-13 boys age group. Christopher Law (San Antonio, Texas) and Finn Scribbick (San Antonio, Texas) were third in synchronized 3-meter. Estee Pryor (New Albany, Ohio) took third in the 16-18 girls platform contest, and Tarrin Gilliland (Liberty Hill, Texas) won bronze on 1-meter for 11-and-under girls.

Mexico won five of the seven gold medals handed out Saturday, with Canada claiming the other two.

Coburn, who was competing in her second Junior Pan Ams, won her 1-meter silver with 275.90 points in a close contest in which less than 10 points separated first from fifth. Mexico’s Arantza Perez scored 277.25 points for the gold, and Venezuela’s Elizabeth Perez was third at 273.15. USA’s Emily Grund (Keller, Texas) was right behind with 270.45 points for fourth.

Gibson medaled on 3-meter for the second consecutive Junior Pan Ams, having won silver on that event in the 12-13 age group in 2011. This time, she came away with 362.20 points for third in the 14-15 age group. Canadian teammates Molly Carlson and Caeli McKay won gold and silver with 381.00 and 365.25 points, respectively. Brooke Schultz (Fayetteville, Ark.) finished fourth.

Hopper made his Junior Pan Am debut with 329.30 points in the 12-13 3-meter contest to win the bronze. In the closest contest of the day, Canada’s Henry McKay scored 339.55 points to edge Mexico’s Kevin Berlin by 1.55 points for the gold. Max Flory (Fairfax, Va.) finished ninth.

Gilliland’s 1-meter bronze was the 11-year-old’s second medal of the week after having won 3-meter on Thursday. She scored 202.90 points to finish third on 1-meter behind Mexico’s Melissa Mirafuentes (219.95) and Scarlett Calderon (208.20).

2012 Olympic silver medalist Alejandra Orozco of Mexico scored 396.65 points to win the 16-18 girls platform contest. Teammate Monica Marquez finished with 375.60 points to edge USA’s Pryor by less a point for silver. Pryor finished with 374.95 points for bronze, and Emma Villarreal (McGregor, Texas) placed fourth.

Law and Scribbick, competing internationally together for the first time, took bronze in synchro with 281.31 points. Mexico’s Rodrigo Diego and Adan Zuniga were first at 329.04, and Canada’s Philippe Gagne and Vincent Riendeau scored 313.80 points for second.

Mexico’s Randal Willars won his second gold medal of the championships with 280.10 points in the 11-and-under boys platform contest a day after winning the 3-meter event. Canada’s Ryland Wiens was second, and Mexico’s Bryan Santiesteban was third. USA’s Jackson Miller (Southlake, Texas) and Kevin Mendez (Lighthouse Point, Fla.) were sixth and seventh.

The Junior Pan American Championships conclude Sunday.

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Two gold for Canada at Junior Pan Am diving championships

TUCSON, Arizona - Molly Carlson of Thunder Bay, Ont., and Henry McKay of Ottawa each won a gold medal Saturday at the .Junior Pan Am Diving Championships.

In the girls three-metre for the 14-15-year-old age group, Carlson led Canada to a 1-2 finish with 381.00 points. She was followed by Caeli McKay of Calgary with her second medal of the competition at 365.25.

‘’I was hopîng this would happen,’’ said Carlson, who earned her first 9.0 internationally on her reverse dive. ‘’It’s very exciting. I wasn’t expecting it would be like this with Caeli and I but it’s really cool. I stayed confident on all my dives and took it one step at a time.’’

‘’It went really well considering I haven’t trained three metres as much as I would have liked to,’’ said McKay, the one-metre winner Friday. ‘’My pool was closed down this summer for two months because of the flooding but we were able to go to Edmonton and other places to train.’’

In the boys three-metre 12-13 age group, Henry McKay finished first with 339.55. He edged Kevin Berlin of Mexico in second at 338.00. Joshua Inglis of London, Ont., was eighth.

‘’I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect,’’ said McKay. ‘’I just went out there and did my best. My front two and half was the best I’ve ever done in competition.’’

Philippe Gagné of Montreal and Vincent Riendeau of Pointe-Claire, Que., took silver for Canada in the men’s three-metre synchro open. They’ve only been training together for two weeks.

‘’We tried it out at training camp and right from the start it went well,’’ said Riendeau. ‘’So we decided to try it in competition and we couldn’t be happier. The biggest challenge for us are our hurdles because they are so different from one another.’’

Also placing second was Rylen Wiens of Saskatoon in the boys 11 and under platform with Jacob Zimmel of Edmonton fourth.

‘’I felt pretty good,’’ said Wiens. ‘’The most important dive was my back two and half. I got eights on it and it is a pretty hard dive.’’

Other Canadian results; Frédérique Lalonde of Repentigny, Que., was fifth on women’s 16-18 platform; Faith Zacharis of Aylmer, Ont., fifth in the girls 12-13 one-metre; and Mélodie Leclerc of Montreal and Erin Field of Pointe-Claire were fourth and sixth on girls 11 and under one-metre.

In the medal standings, Mexico remains first at 13 gold, eight silver and five bronze. Canada follows at 4-7-3 and the U.S. is third at 2-4-8.

Competition ends Sunday

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