sa国际传媒鈥檚 best U-13 divers will compete today through Sunday at Saanich Commonwealth Place in the junior national championships.
鈥淭his is the next generation that will be diving for sa国际传媒 in the 2024 Games and beyond,鈥� said Lisa Boog, general manager and assistant coach of the host Victoria Boardworks Club.
The host club will be well represented with Carson Paul and Keira Lu, both 2016 junior national bronze medallists.
Both have been identified within the Diving sa国际传媒 high performance program.
鈥淭hey are up and comers to watch for,鈥� said Boog.
The Boardworks club has produced Olympians Riley McCormick and Jenna Dreyer, Commonwealth Games performers Rachel Kemp and Wegadesk Gorup-Paul and former NCAA Div. 1 divers Liana Bugslag with the Arkansas Razorbacks, McCormick with the Arizona State Sun Devils, Dreyer with the Miami Hurricanes and Aidan Faminoff currently with the Florida State Seminoles.
Now it鈥檚 about the next generation of Boardworks divers and it looks to be a good one. Paul and Lu are youngest of that emerging group. Ryan Grover, headed to the Italian Grand Prix, is on the senior national team and Celina Toth will compete in the 2017 World University Games next month in Taiwan.
Bryden Hattie, Coral Strugnell, Tanesha Lucoe and Grover will compete later this month in the 2017 sa国际传媒 Summer Games in Winnipeg.
鈥淭hat is half of the sa国际传媒 diving team for the sa国际传媒 Games,鈥� Boog proudly pointed out.
The competition times this weekend at Saanich Commonwealth Place are from 9 a.m. to 5:30 at p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday. This will be followed by the 14-18 age-group national junior meet in two weeks in Montreal.
The top finishers in both the Saanich and Montreal meets will represent the country against the best from the U.S., Caribbean, Central America and South America at the 2017 junior Pan American championships Sept. 28-Oct. 1 at Saanich Commonwealth Place.
