Posts tagged Joey Dowd
2011 USA Diving Summer Junior Zone D Championships
Jul 20th
As most of you know last week we had our Zones Championships in Moultrie, GA which is the qualifying meet for Junior Olympic Nationals. The top 6 finishers on each event qualify for Junior Nationals while 7-12 qualify for the Age Group Championships. Our team had several great performances resulting in 10 divers quaifying for JO Nationals and 3 qualifying for Age Groups. As a team YCF Diving finished 2nd place and will be one of the biggest teams going into nationals! It was a phenomal week for us! Our kids have put in a lot of hard work and made a lot sacrifices to get to this point. I’m proud of them and I look forward to seeing them all flourish at Nationals. Here’s the list of divers who qualified from our team:
Age Group Championships Qualifiers
Name Events
Jack Dowd 1m,3m, platform
Abby Howell 1m
Sarah Frongoul Platform
Junior National Qualifers Age Group Championships Qualifiers
Name Events
Maggie Merriman 1m,3m & platform (1st time qualifer)
Grace Cable 1m ,3m & platform (1st time qualifer)
Grayson Kim 1m,3m & platform (1st time qualifer)
Emma Kraeger 1m,3m & platform (1st time qualifer)
Mya Kraeger 1m,3m & platform
Wallace Layland 1m,3m & platform
Abby Howell 3m & platform
Riley Knox 1m & 3m
Joey Dowd 1m,3m & platform
Rafael Quintero 1m,3m & platform (1st time qualifer)
Team Standing
YCF Diving 2nd Place
WAY TO GO EVERYONE!!
2011 USA Diving Age Group and Junior Nationals
Jul 10th
Beginning July 29th, Coach Mark and Coach Courtney will be traveling to Knoxville, Tennessee for the Championship season finale, Age Group and Junior Nationals. The meet will begin with all Age Group National Qualifiers competingJuly 29th – 31st and will finish up with all Junior National Qualifiers competing until August 6th. The following divers will be taking the trip to Knoxville. Please wish them good luck and safe travels!
Olympia’s Dowd Wins State Diving Title
Feb 10th
By Chris Silveira
There are several state champions roaming the halls of West Orange County high schools this week after area athletes brought home gold medals at the Florida High School Athletic Association 3A State Swimming and Diving Championships at the Central Florida YMCA Aquatic Center last Saturday.
Olympia freshman Joey Dowd is looking to start a consecutive state title run, as he won the boys one-meter diving event with a score of 472.9. This is the second year in a row a Titan diver has won the boys event.
“It was a tough competition with all the emotions going around in my head,” said Dowd. “I was seeded first, but anything can happen, and a couple of people can hit a dive here or there. I was up by just half a point going into the final dive, and I hit it down for eight and a half’s and nines, and that sealed it for me. The other competitors didn’t really know what hit them once they saw that, and they did not set down solid enough dives, and I took it away.”
Titan junior Steyn Funk won his first state swim title in the boys 100 yard freestyle with a time of 45.62 and also took home a bronze medal with a third-place finish in the 200-meter freestyle.
“When I hit the wall, it was mainly relief because I’ve been trying to get a first for awhile,” said Funk. “It felt good.”
The Olympia girls team finished in fourth place and was led by junior Riki Bonnema, who finished just 0.03 seconds behind Harper Bruens from Boca Raton in the 50-yard freestyle final. Bonnema picked up two more silver medals as part of the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relay teams that also included Maria Bernard, Rebecca Bernard, Liz Bales, and Gabi Gil.
The Dr. Phillips girls team, which finished in third place overall, opened the evening finals session with a dramatic come-from-behind win to capture the gold medal in the 200-yard medley relay. Senior Ellice Mae Sanchez swam the backstroke in the first leg, followed by senior Halie Lacey in the breaststroke, sophomore Angela Algee in the butterfly and freshman Allie Magrino in the freestyle, who touched the wall at 1:48:66 only 11 seconds ahead of another freshman, Laura Toth from Riverview, for the win.
