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League Diving Update

Hilda Huang, Business Manager
May 2, 2012

Paly divers showed a dominating performance at the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Championships yesterday, sweeping first, second and third in the girls’ division and first in the boys’.

Captain Emma Miller (’12) won the girls competition with a career high of 390.05, Serena Yee (’13) placed second with a personal best 381.65 and Nadya Nee (’13) placed third with 340.40. Phoebe So (’14), who moved up into Varsity just two weeks ago, placed ninth with 288.55. The Lady Vikes helped Paly score 62 points out of the possible 68 which will help swimming immensely in their competition.

Cole Plambeck (’13) won a decisive victory in the boys’ competition and his third consecutive SCVAL diving championship with 476.65. Jonathan Kosaka (’14) scored 270.84, finishing fourth, but just missing the Central Coast Championship qualifying score of 280.00. All of the divers mentioned above  and Alex Francis (’13) have already qualified for CCS.

The swimmers will compete at SCVALS for the rest of this week at Lynbrook.

You can see Coach Danny Dye’s diving recap at his Palo Alto Swimming and Diving blog here.

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Hilda Huang
Hilda Huang, Business Manager
Hilda Huang is a senior and joined The Viking in her junior year because of her love for athletics. After serving as a copy editor her junior year, she is now a Business Manager along with fellow Viking Michael Strong. Huang dove varsity for the Swimming and Diving team and was a part of the gymnastics team her sophomore year, but was unable to compete due to injury. Awarded 1st place in the 2012 Art Rosenbaum Scholarship Award for her story "Running After Dark," she is also an avid musician and a huge USA Gymnastics (go Fierce Five!) fan. Follow @hildaphu on twitter, or find more stuff about her at http://curiosity.discovery.com/user/hilda-huang/bio and http://bigthink.com/hildahuang.