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Boston Area Diving and Divers in the News
March 08, 2007
Duffey captures back-to-back high
school diving titlesNow
that
high
school
season
is
over
Duffey
will
continue
training
with
the
private
club
team,
Boston
Area
Diving,
which
practices
at
both
Brandeis
and
Wellesley
College.
Duffey
was
recruited
to
dive
at
Dartmouth
College
where
she
will
compete
on
the
Division
I
diving
team.
Feb. 27, 2007
NEWMAC Announces Postseason Awards
Paradis heads list of Babson honorees in hoops, swimming and diving.
BABSON PARK, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced its postseason awards on Tuesday, and first-year Aaron Paradis (Norwich, Conn./Norwich Free) headed up a host of Babson athletes who were recognized. The Beavers' rookie became the first person in school history to earn NEWMAC Diver of the Year honors after winning both the one-meter and three-meter events at this past weekend's conference championships. Paradis' scores of 453.00 and 466.45 not only earned him a spot on the All-NEWMAC First Team, but they qualified him for selection to the upcoming NCAA Division III Championships.
Two other members of the Babson swimming and diving teams also received conference honors. Second-year diving coach Joe Chirico was named NEWMAC Diving Coach of the Year based on his work in guiding Paradis to two conference titles,
''All my friends from BAD, every year they would
get excited for the high school season and going to
states, and I could never be part of that," Duffey
said. ''I've always wondered where I rank, and now I
finally have my own people to rank with. There's a
lot of good divers in the prep school league. It's
just really exciting . . . like a whole new world."
Her journey to a state diving title last week was quite remarkable. The friend who steered her toward the pool was Milford's Danielle Parretti, a club gymnastics teammate who was also a two-time Division 2 state diving champion the past two years for the Scarlet Hawks.
Parretti, now a freshman all-around gymnast at George Washington University, took Peterson to Boston Area Diving at the Brandeis pool.
April 2005
The All-Scholastics
The All-Scholastic girls' swim team was selected by the school sports
staff.
D'Ambrosio put together one of the more spectacular regular seasons in
history, going undefeated leading up to postseason competition. He was named a
Dual County League All-Star, having won the DCL diving crown. In six dives at
the North sectional meet, he posted a high score of 290
Junior brings home South championship
''I don't know what happened," Parretti said. ''I had been having trouble
with that dive all day. I was actually scared of it. But everything went right.
It all just kind of clicked."
It's been that kind of season for Parretti, who went into yesterday's MIAA
Division 2 meet as the favorite to win her first state championship. When the
pressure was on, she was at her best.
April 2004
The All-Scholastics
The
All-Scholastic girls' swim team was selected by the school sports staff.
Selection is limited to MIAA schools that compete in EMass leagues.
Tess Waresmith, Dover-Sherborn, Tory McKenna, Westford, JoJo Aresty, Wayland
The Waltham facilities include specialized equipment to assist divers in safely learning dives before trying them at the pool. NYU does not have that equipment, so Donie made the trip with his squad, and that led to his coaching the Boston Area Diving team. Several of the Boston Area Diving team members, including Dover-Sherborn Regional High's Tess Waresmith, have competed against national and international competition. Waresmith, a Globe All-Scholastic last year and the MIAA state champion, was fourth on the 3-meter board in December at a premier international meet in Montreal.
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 May
2003
Pat
Hayden Picks Yale
A four time league MVP and three time league champion in the Bay Colony
Conference, Pat lettered all four years at Sharon High School in Massachusetts
under Coach Bob Bell. He was captain of the team in both his junior and senior
years. A school record holder after his junior year, Pat went on to set a league
record the following year. He is also a member of the Boston Area Diving team
under Coach Joe Chirico.
WALTHAM - Lucy Hicks
had just completed
her sophomore year
at Northfield-Mt.
Hermon and was
looking to take the
next step in her
diving career.
Taking the advice of
family and friends,
Hicks decided to
join Boston-Area
Diving. "I heard BAD
was the best place
to go," Hicks said.
"It's been a
complete 180-degree
turn. It's a lot of
hard work and very
serious, but I've
seen a big change in
my diving."
January 22, 2001
BAD Diver
Bate Gregory Named Yale’s Athlete
of the Week.
Sets Ivy League and Championship record.
Princeton University
2/15/2007 - 15:12PM
2007 Women's Ivy League Championships
February 15-17,
2007 - Princeton University
Event 5 Women 1 mtr Diving
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Meet Record: M 281.05 2001
Bates Gregory (Yale)
Ivy Record: I
281.05 2001 Bates
Gregory (Yale)
Pool Record: P 409.70 1994
Sheryl Summerton (Princeton)
Name
Year School
Seed Prelims
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 March
2001 Former BAD Diver
HASTINGS CAPTURES SIXTH CAREER ALL-AMERICA HONOR
LEWISTON, Maine — Bates College junior diver Andrew Hastings
of Weston, Mass., placed 13th in the 3-meter diving event at the at the
NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving championships in Buffalo, N.Y., on March
17, earning his sixth career All-America honor and making him the most decorated
student-athlete in school history.
Cindy Peterson
used to fly off the uneven bars, twist and spin in the air, and land all her
flips feet first. On a mat.
Now she lands headfirst. In water. That's
because the Northeastern senior spent her
life honing the skills of gymnastics until
an injury sidelined her five years ago. So
she gave up the balance beam for the diving
board and is now in line to go to the NCAA
Division 1 championships for the second year
in a row.
Cohasset's
Jane
deLima
earned North
Atlantic
Conference
Scholar-Athlete
honors. A
junior
biology
major at
Northeastern,
she was the
'94 NAC
champion on
the one- and
three-meter
diving
boards .
DeLima also
was named
the New
England
Diver of the
Year as she
won the New
England
championship
on both
boards. She
also won the
three-meter
event at the
New Englands
in 1993.
Whitridge, who broke school
diving records in his
sophomore and junior
seasons, and who won the New
England Age 16-18 diving
competition in April, was
named to the All-America
first team recently by
officials of the
Interscholastic Swimming
Coaches Association, who
made their decision after
watching films of the
candidates.
In the Division 2 NCAAs in Wisconsin, the senior co-captain finished third in
3-meter diving and fifth on the 1-meter board. In the New Englands, Pollino won
the 1-meter and was third in 3-meter. His performance earned him the Charles
Batterman Award, which goes to the senior diver scoring the most points in New
England competition over a four-year period.
WESTFORD -- Dana Kozimor was an All-America diver her sophomore,
junior and senior years at Westford Academy. Today, as a fifth-year
senior at Northeastern University, she still dives and is still an
All-America. Only, now, she's a Scholastic All-America.
Scholastics aside, "she's the best diver New England has ever
had," says her long-time coach Joe Chirico. "She has set records at
almost every pool she has ever been in." Setting records is nothing
new for the 21-year-old Westford native. During her brilliant high
school career she set every 1-meter and 3-meter record there was to
be set, and all the records still stand. She went through high
school undefeated in dual meets and only once -- in the states her
freshman year -- did she not win.
Sheila Priestly remembers a moment
in August just before her name was
announced as winner of the
13-and-under United States National
Junior Olympic 3-meter Springboard
Title.
Priestly, of Westford, was with
her mother and coach Joe Chirico at
the competition held outside
Houston. Right before they announced
my name, I said, 'Wake up Sheila,
it's not real,' " said Priestly, 13.
"I had dreamed about it so much, it
was almost like deja vu when it
happened."
Northeastern diver Dana Kozimor has a problem. When you are the best
in your area, how do you get better? ..."Joe gave me some tips," she says. "Then he entered me in a small
meet and I won in my class. I learned body control doing gymnastics
and that helped me as a diver. I've been diving since. I've been
working with Joe eight years now. We're thinking about the regular
season, the nationals and just peaking at the next Olympics."
December 15,
1987
Diving coach Joe Chirico has two outstanding
competitors. Michelle White of Arlington won the 1-
and 3-meter events in the New Englands last season
and qualified for the NCAAs; freshman Dana Kosimor
of Westford was the state champ last year as well as
a Globe All-Scholastic.
Patty Cauley of Needham is a gymnast first, a diver second
and a swimmer third. Right now, though, she is the South
Sectional diving champion who'll be aiming for the state
championship Saturday at Medford.....Cauley also works out at the Boston Area diving clinic under
coach Joe Chirico. She performs dives that have a high
degree of difficulty (2.0 to 2.4 while many divers around
the league are performing dives of 1.7 and 1.8.
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