Crystal Palace Divers win four Golds at the British Cup & World Trials

The Palace Dive Team of seven elite senior and juniors won a total of 13 medals including, four Golds, five silvers and four bronzes in the first significant competition of 2012

Rhea Gayle retained her British and English title with Golds in the Senior 1metre event with a new British Record score of 267.20pt.  Rhea beat World Championship diver Alicia Blagg by less than one point in a nail biting final.  Rhea has since been offered a provisional spot on the Senior European Team in Eindhoven in May.

Georgia Ward won Golds in the British and English Junior Highboard event. This was Georgia’s first Elite Nationals and first full 10 metre list.

Other medallists, Francesca Del Celo, Emily Moses and Jessica Riley made a final.

Congratulations Divers

Full Team: Fracesca Del Celo (15), Rhea Gayle (18), Emily Moses (15), Katherine Torrence (13), Amber Sheppard (14), Jessica Riley (14)

Full results on dive recorder

Diving Report: Sunday 11^th December 2011

The 2011 London Schools Winter Diving Championships had the largest entry to date, with 129 entries from 81 schools across a third of the London Boroughs.

Medals and trophies were presented by Chris Smith, the London School’s Swimming Director.  Three distinguished officials judged the competition, Olympic coach Derek Beaumont, Betty Allen the ESSA Diving Manager and Cheng Yang also an Olympic Coach.

There were twelve competitions for Junior and Secondary School divers.  The standard was varied from beginners to National Skill Medallists. Thanks to Fran Diaz, the  competition was run "Live" on the Web ( diverecorder) for supporters to watch if they couldn't attend.

Bromley finished as the top School Borough taking five golds, three silvers and a bronze.  Croydon schools finished with the most medals with a haul of ten and there were two golds for Lambeth, and one gold each for Lewisham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Bexley.  Four other Boroughs, Westminster, Wandsworth, Greenwich and Sutton, had divers with top three finishes.

One of the most nail biting of the twelve competitions was the Girls Year 3 & Under.

Mabel Smith from Thomas’s Clapham (Lambeth) scored three near perfect 9.5s to finish third, putting pressure on Evie Smith of Parish Junior School (Bromley) and Clara Papworth of St Chads (Croydon).  Both Evie and Clara responded with stunning performances, both scoring two perfect 10s to finish first and second respectively.

Former British Olympic Coach Derek Beaumont said the standard this year was absolutely exceptional but not surprising as  the majority of the divers competing at the schools competition had been talent picked and were receiving expert coaching.

Chris Snode, the London School Diving Manager added, what was encouraging was the shear spread of depth at this years competition.  33 schools out of the 81 schools had divers finish in the top three. Furthermore the schools were from across eleven of the London Boroughs. Next School Championships is on Sunday 4^th March.

See Results Page for full individual results

Medal Table:

Crystal Palace divers win in Southend

The England Talent Games is an important Event where the top clubs in England pitch their most talented up and coming divers against each other.  The competition covers dry diving skills and diving pool skills over some two days of intense competition.  There are three different events both in the Dry Diving Gym and the Diving Pool.  Divers can place in each of the events and there are overall Individual Winners and Team Winners.

92 divers from eight clubs competed in this years England Talent Games.  Crystal Palace had the largest team of the eight with 20 divers.  Our divers entered three of the four events and won all three events.

Girls 9 and under

Amelia Connolly  won this overall event by 78 points.  She won four of the six individual sections.  Anais Daly-Gourdlialsing finish third overall which was amazing as it was her first ever diving competition.  Andrea Anderson finished 5th over all and picked up a third place in the Trampoline section.  Heidi Florian-Stargard finished 11th overall with a fourth place finish in the Poolside and 5 metre section scoring 10 points towards the team trophy.

Boys 10 and over

We had two competitors in a field of 16 entries.  Noah Williams won the overall competition and four of the six individual events  49 points ahead of the Southampton diver.   Francis Papworth finished 5th overall with a second in the Dryboard section.

Girls 10 and Over

We took our third overall Gold where we had the greatest entry of some 14 divers of the 36 competitors.  Maria Papworth scored many tens and three of the sections win.  Third was Abby Glynn with a 2nd in the Poolside and 5 metre section and a 3rd in the gymnastic section.  Lexie Howard finished 4th overall with a win in the 1 metre board section and 2 x 3rds in the Trampoline and Dryboard event.

Olivia Jones, and Tia Monk, finished 5th and 6th .  Olivia had an individual win on the Trampoline and a 2nd on the Dryboard which placed her second overall on the Dryland section.  Tia also did well individually finishing second in the Line up section and 3rd on the 1 metre.  Alison Roffey and Rhiannon David finished 8th and 10th overall

These great individual results enabled us to be crowned the overall Girls Team Champions and we were just four points short of the combined Champions Title even though we only competed in three of the four events.

Well done to every one on the Team and proving that we had the greatest depth of talent of all the Clubs in the Country.
See results page for results

We had another successful competition when sixteen of our Level three National Age Group divers travelled to Southampton for their annual invitational competition.  The Crystal Palace Team won a total of 15 medals including 5 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals across eleven events.

Victoria Vincent won both of the girls 11 and under springboard events with Maria Papworth taking the silver in the 1 metre competition.  In the Girls 12 and 13’s we won all golds including Katherine Torrence’s two golds in the 1m and Highboard and Grace May’s gold in the 3m.  Grace also picked up a silver in the 1m competition as did Jessica Royes in 3m.  Natasha MacManus and Francesca Doran won a bronze in the 1m and 3m respectively which gave our 12 & 13 year old girls the clean sweep in both the springboard competitions.

In the girls 14 & 15 years Jing Leung came away with a silver and bronze in the 1m and Higboard with Rosie Cardoe finalling in the 3m event.

Georgia Ward won all of the 16 to 18 years three competitions.

There were further steady performances from Isobel Ruff, Holly Lewis, Ella Bullet and Jack Morgan.  Well done again coaches and divers!

Results:
 Southampton Invitational Results 2011 

Please click on the links below to download an entry form and entry conditions.

Please hand the entry form along with the entry payment at your next diving session

Christmas Schools Comp Entry Form 2011 

Christmas School Comp Conditions 2011 

A Crystal Palace Team of 16 level two divers travelled north to Leeds to compete in the White Rose Diving Cup in Leeds.  The White Rose is an important, well established two day annual Novice Skills competition where Crystal Palace had never before won the team trophy.

Sixteen clubs entered with a total of 129 divers competing.  We had divers entered in five of the eight events and we won gold medals in each of those events along with one silver, a bronze and 13 divers finished in the top ten.

Well done to all the 16 divers who scored their Level 2 Skills points qualifying for the National Skills on 5/6 May in Southampton next year..

The girls 8 & 9yrs was the first competition, Amelia Connolly took our first gold and her team mate Louise Bradley put in a good performance  finishing 5^th in the finals, with her points counting towards the trophy.

Next up was the largest event the girls 10 & 11’s with 42 entries.  We had an incredible result taking all top six places in the finals.  Scarlett Mew Jenson won gold with two perfect 10’s on her final dive.  Silver and bronze went to Alison Roffey and Tia Monk with 4^th, 5^th and 6^th going to Rhiannon David, Abby Glyn (the prelim winner) and Ciara McGng.  There were also strong performances from Ella Edwards 8^th, Florence Smith 9^th, Evie Malin 16^th and Georgia Valasco 28^th.

We had only one diver in each of the final three events. All three divers took gold in their respective events.  Olivia Jones won the Girls 12 & 13 years by a tiny margin of 1.45 points over Leed’s diver Grace Denny.  Noah Williams won the Boys 10 & 11’s comfortably and Ford Fagan under pressure after the success of his team mates managed to hold his nerve and win the Boys 12 &13 competition.

Well done divers for producing Crystal Palace’s best ever result at the White Rose and bringing the trophy home!

Results: White Rose Simple Results 2011 

A Crystal Palace Team of 18 level two divers travelled south for the annual “Peter Waterfield Diving competition.  There was a huge entry for a one day event.

Thirteen clubs entered with a total of 143 divers competing.  We competed in five of the eight events winning four medals including one gold and three silvers and had 11 divers finish in the top ten.  Well done to all our divers who scored their National Level 2 Skills points.

The biggest event was the Girls 10 & 11 years with 38 entries. This was a close fought contest between two Palace divers for first and second places with Abby Glynn taking Gold ahead of  Ciara McGing with a tiny margin of just 1.55 points.

The other two silvers were won by Louise Bradley in the Girls 9 and under and Olivia Jones in the Girls 12 & 13 years.  Well done to all for a great showing.

Results: Peter Waterfield_Results 2011