Alison Gibson Wins 1m Dive Title For Texas
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Texas’ Alison Gibson won the 1m diving title for the first time in her career and won Texas’ first diving title since Nicole Pohorenec won the platform event in 2004. It is also the first 1m title for Texas since 1998 when Vera Ilyina won back to back titles in 97 and 98.
The Texas freshman won the competition ahead of last year’s diver of the year in Sharae Zhang of Nevada and Olympian Kassidy Cook of Stanford. Gibson scored 332.60 to win.
Minnesota’s Sarah Bacon (326.50), Cal’s Maria Polyakov (325.80), Minnesota’s Yu Zhou (317.95), LSU’s Elizabeth Cui (315.35), Nevada’s Zhang (315.00), Miami’s Pei Lin (312.00) and Stanford’s Cook (305.65) rounded out the A-Final.
Event 6 Women 1 mtr Diving ========================================================================= NCAA: N 361.55 3/2007 Cassidy Krug, Stanford Meet: C 361.55 3/2007 Cassidy Krug, Stanford Name Year School Prelims Finals NISCA Points ========================================================================= === A - Final === 1 Alison Gibson FR Texas 287.45 332.60 166 20 2 Sarah Bacon FR Minnesota 292.40 326.50 164 17 3 Maria Polyakova JR UCLA 301.90 325.80 164 16 4 YU Zhou SR Minnesota 307.70 317.95 161 15 5 Elizabeth Cui SO LSU 292.05 315.35 160 14 6 Sharae Zheng NEV 316.70 315.00 160 13 7 Pei Lin SR Miami (OH) 296.30 312.00 159 12 8 Kassidy Cook FR Stanford 308.95 305.65 157 11