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Houston wins third straight one-meter title at UT Diving Invite
11.20.2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Texas senior Meghan Houston wins one-meter crown on the final dive of the competition.
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas senior Meghan Houston rallied from an early deficit and won the three-meter title on the final dive of the competition Friday evening in the UT Diving Invite at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Houston captured her third straight one-meter title at the UT Diving Invite with 315.65 points. UT freshman Meghan O'Brien added a fifth-place total of 301.85 points.
Houston trailed by over 10 points through two of six rounds before methodically chipping away at the lead held by California's Phoebe Lamay. The Austin native took the lead on her fifth dive, a reverse, one-and-a-half somersault that went for 54 points.
Houston put away a narrow victory over Lamay with the last of the competition's 48 dives, a back one-and-a-half somersault that netted 51.75 points. Houston's total of 315.65 was enough to top Lamay's total of 313.25.
"Those first couple of dives weren't quite my best, but the back one-and-a-half is one of my more reliable dives," Houston said. "I knew it was pretty close. I told myself to relax and do that dive like I do in practice, and I knew it was going to be there."
The Texas women wrap up the UT Diving Invite Saturday with the platform final round at 10 a.m. CT.
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