The North Carolina diving team sent 10 divers to the Purdue University Invitational, an event which featured eight different schools this past weekend in West Lafayette, Ind.
The No. 22 men’s and No. 21 women’s diving team each finished in eighth place with 84 and 109 points, respectively.
What happened?
On Thursday, senior Maria Lohman and graduate Elissa Dawson finished first and second respectively in the women’s three-meter diving preliminaries with scores of 342.6 and 333.85. But they ended up sliding down to final ranks of eighth and ninth place in the finals with scores of 274.70 and 270.70.
Ashlynn Peters from Virginia Tech took first place in the finals with a score of 305.65. Overall, the Tar Heels were able to snag 26 points.
In the men’s one-meter diving, graduate Sean Burston and sophomore Gregory Duncan finished fifth and sixth in the finals with scores of 327.25 and 326.90, and junior Bryan Allen finished eighth with a score of 314.8.
Overall, the Tar Heels earned a solid total of 49 points. Joseph Cifelli from Purdue took first place with a score of 402.25 and 20 points.
On Friday in women’s one-meter diving, Elissa Dawson placed fifth for the Tar Heels with a score of 274.55 and 14 points, while Lohman placed 10th with a score of 249.8 and seven points.
Sophomore Emma McPeeters placed 12th with a score of five points. The three gave the Tar Heels a total of 26 points. Morgan Meixner took first place for Purdue with a score of 309.55 and 20 points.