Santa Clara Diving had a strong showing in last weekends Central Coast Section High School Championships.  A total of 16 SCD divers competed in the championship meet and 10 of them qualified for the finals. The girls made a strong stand during Saturday’s competition, taking the top four spots on the podium.  Sophomore Alexa Cacao [...]

The forward approach is one of the hardest things the master in diving.  Even the best Olympians continue to perfect their individual front hurdles so that they are the best in the world.  The front approach can take on many different forms, and it really just depends on each particular diver to determine which hurdle [...]

Santa Clara Diving got to see future divers for the club’s travel team compete last weekend during the annual Future Champions Invite held at the International Swim Center.  A total of 28 divers from the lessons program and new JO members represented Santa Clara Diving at the meet that included 10 different teams and over [...]

Santa Clara Diving had the great pleasure of hosting the cast and crew of the popular Discovery Channel television show, “MythBusters.”  Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, stars of the hit show, were at the George F. Haines International Swim Center on Wednesday, April 18 and Friday, April 20 to test a new myth about jumping [...]

Five divers under the age of 13 represented Santa Clara Diving at the Junior West National Championships last weekend.  Three of the five divers worked their way up through the lessons program and onto the travel team, qualifying for their first national competition in their very first try.  All of the divers qualified for the [...]

Qualifying for the national championships for Santa Clara Diving is not as easy as just registering for the meet.  There is a sequence of meets in which the diver must dive in order to be able to qualify.  There is only one qualifying meet for the spring season in order to make it to nationals, [...]

Synchronized diving has not been around for very long and already it is being used as a regular part of training as an aid in the success of an individual diver at Santa Clara Diving.  There are several reasons why coaches use synchronized diving at practice, even though the divers never compete in a synchronized [...]

Platform diving can be a very beneficial aspect to perfecting the art of springboard competitions.  There are several components to platform diving that increase the success of the diver when they transition to the springboard event at Santa Clara Diving. One of the most notable aspects of platform diving is the height.  The diver will [...]

Diving is all about skill progressions and adding onto previous knowledge that has been already learned.  It is much like the school education system.  You can’t just skip to high school without having learned the alphabet and basic math in elementary school.  Diving operates that same way.  Flips can’t be learned until you learn how [...]

Santa Clara Diving qualified six divers to the USA Diving West National Championships over the weekend.  SCD competed in the Junior Spring Regional Championships where the top six divers in each event qualified for the national championships. Santa Clara Diving had a strong showing from their youngest divers on the team in the 13 and [...]