The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Texas-Ex Troy Dumais wins 38th U.S. national title
12.20.2014 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Four-time U.S. Olympian Troy Dumais claims men’s three-meter crown at the USA Diving Winter National Championships; coach Matt Scoggin receives USA Diving’s Mike Peppe Award.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Former Longhorn and four-time U.S. Olympian Troy Dumais captured his 38th U.S. national diving title Saturday at the 2014 USA Diving Winter National Championships.
Dumais took a 24-point lead into Saturday's men's three-meter final round after accumulating 902.05 points during the preliminary and semifinal rounds earlier this week. A bronze medalist in three-meter synchronized diving at the London Olympics, Dumais held off Indiana's Darian Schmidt and emerged with the national title with 1348.30 points.
Dumais' title win featured the top-scoring dive of the competition, a reverse one-and-a-half somersault with three-and-a-half twists that yielded 92.75 points. Schmidt settled for second place in the competition with 1335.25 points. UT sophomore Mark Anderson joined Dumais in the final and placed 11th with 1,111.90 points. Anderson also competed in the men's platform synchro final and placed third alongside Toby Stanley with 674.04 points.
UT All-America sophomore Murphy Bromberg took a close second in the women's platform final with 1,025.70 points. Indiana's Jessica Parratto claimed the narrow win with 1,027.15 points. Bromberg had trailed Parratto by over 30 points through the semifinal round prior to Saturday's final.
UT senior Emma Ivory-Ganja joined Texas-Ex Maren Taylor to place fourth in the women's three-meter synchro final with 536.10 points. Texas junior Meghan Houston competed alongside North Carolina diver Michole Timm and placed eighth in the final with 490.50 points.
The USA Diving Winter National Championships conclude Sunday at Ohio State's McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.
USA Diving recognizes UT's Scoggin
USA Diving has bestowed its Mike Peppe Award upon 21st-year Texas diving coach Matt Scoggin. The award goes to the nation's outstanding senior diving coach.
Scoggin's divers won the team title for Longhorn Aquatics at the 2014 AT&T National Diving Championships. The former Longhorn diver served as the head coach of Team USA at the 2014 FINA World Cup. Eight of Scoggin's divers represented the U.S. in international competition in 2014.
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