Dimicco takes second in 3-meter diving championship

WHITTIER, Calif. – Chapman University freshman diver Kayla Dimicco took second place overall in the women's 3-meter springboard finals at the SCIAC Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday afternoon at the Lillian Slade Aquatics Center.

The freshman also earned a Regionals qualifying score with a mark of 423.30 – a Chapman record. The rookie's best dive came in the ninth round, a backward dive in the pike position (1.8 degree of difficulty) which earned four 8.0s and an 8.5 from the judges. She is already slated to compete at the NCAA Regionals in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events in San Antonio, Texas on Feb. 27-28.

Among other highlights from Day 3 of the SCIAC Championships:

• Freshman Jonathan Lee set a Chapman record and swam the fourth-fastest time of the meet in the consolation final of the 200-yard freestyle. Lee missed out on qualifying for the finals and landed in the consolation race where he won the heat by nearly a full second, touching the wall in 1:41.98 – faster than all by three swimmers in either the prelims or the finals.
• Chapman's women's 400-yard medley relay team, which includes Dimicco on breaststroke, placed sixth overall in the finals with a time of 4:06.64. Senior freestyler Kirsten Spicer anchored the race with a leg time of 53.44, along with sophomore Claire Fieweger (butterfly) and freshman Mary Welton (backstroke).
• Sophomore Sam Baker placed ninth in the 100-yard backstroke finals with a time of 54.21, following a career-best time of 54.17 in the preliminaries.

by Doug Aiken
Sports Information Director

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