Mars Taylor Hockenberry Still the Queen of WPIAL Diving
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Saturday, February 25, 2017 | 7:52 PM
A move up in classification had no effect on Taylor Hockenberry. After a silver medal as a freshman and gold medals each of the past two seasons competing in Class AA, the Mars senior made it a three-peat as WPIAL Champion, this time in Class AAA.
The competition was evident immediately at North Allegheny High School, as a group of eight divers quickly distanced themselves from the remainder of the 31-diver field. Hockenberry led throughout the competition, but was challenged numerous times along the way by various divers. Hockenberry ended up pulling away with impressive dives in the final round, scoring dives of 57.60 and 52.80 in the final round. She finished with a score of 505.90, defeating Adrienne White of Hampton by 38 points. The junior has finished with the silver medal each of the past two years.
Greater Latrobe junior Taylor Miller used a great final dive to surpass Pine-Richland’s Maddie Huitt by 0.30 points and get the bronze medal. Paige Kalik of Penn-Trafford rounded out the top five, all of whom qualify for the PIAA Championships on March 17th at Bucknell University.
Pairs of divers competing ended up going back-to-back in the semi-final and final rounds, which provided fun competition and lots of leap-frog action in the standings down the stretch. Huitt and Hockenberry pushed each other down the stretch, while the trio of Kalik, White, and Miller went in order later in the rounds.
Final Championship Results:
1 Taylor Hockenberry Senior Mars 505.90
2 Adrienne White Junior Hampton 467.55
3 Taylor Miller Junior Greater Latrobe 465.35
4 Maddie Huitt Sophomore Pine-Richland 465.05
5 Paige Kalik Sophomore Penn-Trafford 440.15
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6 Mallory Charles Junior Pine-Richland 420.20
7 Victoria Woodley Freshman Penn-Trafford 391.90
8 Maddie Mianzo Senior North Allegheny 388.50
9 Kalliope Bicket Senior Mt. Lebanon 354.40
10 Sadie Coda Freshman Bethel Park 349.50
11 Masy Kelly Senior Moon 342.40
12 Jordyn Miller Freshman Greater Latrobe 339.85
13 Morgan Rutan Senior North Allegheny 332.75
14 Morgan Malencia Senior Peters Township 331.90
15 Meghan Keppler Freshman Seneca Valley 313.65
16 Paige Williams Freshman Butler 307.40
Divers 17-20 competed in the Preliminary and Semifinal Rounds (8 dives).
17 Elissa Novella Sophomore Franklin Regional 241.90
18 Ava Christy Freshman Oakland Catholic 236.85
19 Erin Ferrari Senior Baldwin 232.40
20 Amber Shuey Junior Hempfield 216.45
Divers 21-31 competed in the Preliminary Round (5 dives).
21 Dixon Veltri Senior Fox Chapel 153.30
22 Sydney Donati Junior Mt. Lebanon 151.80
23 Meghan Busch Senior North Hills 151.05
24 Kate Eames Sophomore Fox Chapel 148.80
25 Peyton Moore Junior Seneca Valley 148.60
26 Julia Perry Sophomore Franklin Regional 142.45
27 Maddie Montalbano Freshman Seneca Valley 140.35
28 Karlee Schneider Senior Hempfield 139.75
29 Rose Mizak Junior Penn-Trafford 138.60
30 Katelyn Caccamo Sophomore Seneca Valley 136.00
31 Lily Barta Junior Greater Latrobe 132.60
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