Texas Men
Texas All-America junior Mark Anderson edged All-America teammate Cory Bowersox and claimed the three-meter title Friday evening on day two of the UT Diving Invite at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Anderson, who won the platform title at the 2014 UT Diving Invite, won Friday’s three-meter finals with 458.15 points. Bowersox, Thursday’s runner-up on one-meter, took second on three-meter with 448.75 points while redshirt junior Sean O’Brien took fourth with 418.90 points.
“I don’t like to look at the leaderboard, but I knew it would be close toward the end,” Anderson said. “I thought about that for a second, but I just tried to relax and led by body dive.”
Anderson put together a strong list of six dives and saved his best for last. He totaled a meet-best 85.75 points on his reverse one-and-a-half somersault with three-and-a-half twists. Bowersox also finished strong and posted a meet-best 88.4 points on his final dive, an inward three-and-a-half somersault.
Notably, O’Brien earned a perfect score of 10 from one of the five judges on his third dive, a back two-and-a-half somersault that netted 82.5 points.
The UT Diving Invite concludes Saturday with the men’s platform finals at 1:45 p.m. CT.
Texas Women
Texas senior Meghan Houston rallied from an early deficit and won the three-meter title on the final dive of the competition Friday evening in the UT Diving Invite at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Houston captured her third straight one-meter title at the UT Diving Invite with 315.65 points. UT freshman Meghan O’Brien added a fifth-place total of 301.85 points.
Houston trailed by over 10 points through two of six rounds before methodically chipping away at the lead held by California’s Phoebe Lamay. The Austin native took the lead on her fifth dive, a reverse, one-and-a-half somersault that went for 54 points.
Houston put away a narrow victory over Lamay with the last of the competition’s 48 dives, a back one-and-a-half somersault that netted 51.75 points. Houston’s total of 315.65 was enough to top Lamay’s total of 313.25.
“Those first couple of dives weren’t quite my best, but the back one-and-a-half is one of my more reliable dives,” Houston said. “I knew it was pretty close. I told myself to relax and do that dive like I do in practice, and I knew it was going to be there.”
Houston
The Houston divers added two more top-10 finishes to their successful weekend at the Texas Diving Invitational Friday as they battled against strong competition at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Continuing with her momentum from Thursday night, Micaela Bouter made finals for the second evening in a row. The Johannesburg, South Africa, native placed eighth overall in the 1-meter dive with a total score of 288.65. Her top-scoring dive came in the Inward 1 1/2 Somersault Pike, for which she received a 51.60. During prelims, Bouter captured a sixth place finish. The sophomore’s best dive came in the Forward 2 1/2 Somersault Pike, netting a score of 55.90.
Danielle Shedd finished tenth overall after a strong showing in prelims, with a cumulative score of 264.40. The senior’s highest-scoring dive came in the Inward 1 1/2 Somersault Pike, earning her a 51.60.
Colorado State
At the UT Diving Invitational, Ariana Milone led CSU with a 16th-place result in the 1-Meter Springboard with a score of 247.65 in the prelims.
