SectionsDivers prove secret success
Jeff Faust
Issue date: 12/1/09 Section: Sports
While they always have different ideas and methods, the one thing they all agree on though, is the fact that they remember their worst dives a lot better than their best dives.
"Diving is funny like that," Ray said. "You get more applause when you completely wipe out then when you hit that big dive for the championship. There's something glorious about that."
How scores work?
To determine a diver's score, a panel of three judges decides how many points the dive was out of 10.
As far as a deduction though, they only occur by the half-point and usually don't have a defined reasoning, except for a judge's personal feelings on the dive.
Each of those three scores are then added together for a total out of 30 points. Those points are then multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty to determined the diver's score for that particular slash or lack there of.
A diver's total score, though, is determined by a sum of six dives, all of which count toward that final score.
Divers must use one dive from each of the five pre-determined categories: front, back, reverse, inward, and twister, as well as a sixth dive that comes from any category.
"There's always one category that you love, so that's the one you use for your sixth dive," Ray said. "But at the same time, there's always that one you hate. So you just look to get past that one in good shape for the overall score."
NCAA Zones
What every diver is working toward, though, is the chance to compete in Zones, the equivalent of a regional to the NCAA Diving Championships. Missouri State falls within Zone D, which covers most of the Midwest as well as the schools in Arkansas and Texas.
Last year, Ducourneau, Ray and Fulton all qualified for Zones.
To qualify for the 2010 Zone D Championship, which will take place on March 12-14 at Texas A&M, the men have to get a score of at least 300 in the one-meter or 320 in the three-meter. For women, the minimums are set at 265 for the one and 280 for the three.
So far this season, Ducourneau has already qualified for Zones after a 333.37 performance in an early November dual against Lindenwood.
"Diving is funny like that," Ray said. "You get more applause when you completely wipe out then when you hit that big dive for the championship. There's something glorious about that."
How scores work?
To determine a diver's score, a panel of three judges decides how many points the dive was out of 10.
As far as a deduction though, they only occur by the half-point and usually don't have a defined reasoning, except for a judge's personal feelings on the dive.
Each of those three scores are then added together for a total out of 30 points. Those points are then multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty to determined the diver's score for that particular slash or lack there of.
A diver's total score, though, is determined by a sum of six dives, all of which count toward that final score.
Divers must use one dive from each of the five pre-determined categories: front, back, reverse, inward, and twister, as well as a sixth dive that comes from any category.
"There's always one category that you love, so that's the one you use for your sixth dive," Ray said. "But at the same time, there's always that one you hate. So you just look to get past that one in good shape for the overall score."
NCAA Zones
What every diver is working toward, though, is the chance to compete in Zones, the equivalent of a regional to the NCAA Diving Championships. Missouri State falls within Zone D, which covers most of the Midwest as well as the schools in Arkansas and Texas.
Last year, Ducourneau, Ray and Fulton all qualified for Zones.
To qualify for the 2010 Zone D Championship, which will take place on March 12-14 at Texas A&M, the men have to get a score of at least 300 in the one-meter or 320 in the three-meter. For women, the minimums are set at 265 for the one and 280 for the three.
So far this season, Ducourneau has already qualified for Zones after a 333.37 performance in an early November dual against Lindenwood.
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Alex
posted 12/02/09 @ 10:48 PM CST
I was very excited to finally see an article about the Missouri State dive team. This team works very hard and in the end is not even looked at as a sport in the athletic program. (Continued…)
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posted 12/06/09 @ 3:21 PM CST
The Missouri State swimming and diving program helps stidents to be healthy.
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