May 24, 2007

Twenty-one divers identified for Talent Development Program

INDIANAPOLIS – Following the May 17-20 Talent Development Combine, 21 divers have been identified to participate in USA Diving's Talent Development Program, which is designed to identify potentially exceptional divers in the 7-13 age range. Divers were identified by Hobie Billingsley, Dick Kimball and Olga Tichonova-McClesky.

By being selected, the divers will be invited to attend the Talent Development Training Camp (August 22-26), given an analysis report of two training videos, an on-site visit to the home training site by an international level coach, and access to the High Performance Director for consultation on training issues.

The following divers have been selected to the Talent Development Program:

Boys (Coach)
Austin Alexander (Kris Hoffman)
Zachary Cooper (Sean McCarthy)
Andrew Cramer (Eric Barnes)
Dashiell Enos (Hongping Li)
Timothy Faerber (Petar Trifonov)
Steele Johnson (John Wingfield)

Girls (Coach)
Sarah Bacon (Sean McCarthy)
Olivia Ball (Chris Medvedeff)
Kali Becker (Petar Trifonov)
Makena Chamoures (Todd Spohn)
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Joe Somma)
Grace Fulwider (Sean McCarthy)
Chloe Hacker (Marc Briggs)
Lillian Hinrichs (Kris Hoffman)
Meghan Houston (George Perdue)
Janae Janik (Nancy Janik)
Gracia Leydon-Mahoney (Sergey Meshcherskiy)
Mary Ann McCain (Ron Hobbs)
Sivan Mills (Justin Socher)
Carly Scheper (Lori Rapp)
Zoe Mongan (Peter Trifonov)

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