Katy has completed her first season of diving for her high school team. It was interesting to say the least. Katy was on the JV team. She was the only freshman on the team. She was put on this the JV team before the coach saw any of them dive.
It seemed as though every meet that Katy was in, the weather was as bad as possible. In her first meet, it was rainy and cold. We all waited around for a very long time waiting until things finally started. The other team ended up not showing up. They still had to dive, but they won that part of the meet by default. This was somewhat typical for the season. There were a few very good divers at a few of the schools, but all in all, it seems that diving is a very small part of the swimming program in local area high schools.
The funniest thing about the divers, is none of the high school pools have a hot tub for the divers between dives. They all tend to have rubbermaid cattle watering troughs for the divers to sit in while they wait. Even Santa Clara that is supposed to be a world class site has these. (Stanford has a real hot tub).
The diving programs were very unorganized at Los Gatos High. We found out that we should assume diving is the day before the swim meet that we got lots of mail about. We also figured out that if we went to the other high school’s website, we could generally find out more information about what was actually going to happen.
Katy seemed to have a good time with her first foray into competition. By the end of the season, she was one of the better divers on the team. She was the best coach for the team as well. Her Stanford coach has told her that if she keeps diving there, by the end of next season, she will make CCS.
I didn’t get a lot of pictures from the meets because of the bad weather and other factors. Here are a few pictures from her first meet. The next set of pictures are from Palo Alto High as well as an invitational all girls meet with Presentation and Mitty. I was very proud of her at the Presentation meet. On her 3rd (I think) dive, she came out too early and hit the board with her foot. It made a huge bruise that hurt her to dive for a while. During the meet, she just kept going like nothing happend.
She also competed in a US Diving competition where she did both 1-meter and 3-meter at Santa Clara.
