Santa Clara Diving qualified five divers to the USA Diving West National Championships on the second day of competition.  The top 6 finishers in each age group in each event qualify for the national championships. The first qualifications for Santa Clara Diving came from the youngest team members of Cole Sullivan and Remi Edvalson.  Cole [...]

Santa Clara Diving picked up two medals on the first day of competition at the USA Diving Spring Regional Championships.  Kathleen Navas earned SCD a gold medal in the 12-13 girls platform competition while Shaifali Goyal picked up a silver medal in the 14-15 girls platform event.  Although platform is an exhibition event for the [...]

The Santa Clara Diving team is traveling to Beaverton, OR this weekend on March 2-4 to try and earn a qualifying spot for USA Diving’s West National Championships.  Santa Clara Diving will have 20 divers from both the JO and White travel team groups competing over the course of the weekend.  The top six finishers [...]

You have now learned what to do to get ready for a competition, but what do you do when you actually get to a competition?  The Santa Clara Diving coaching staff will help guide you through the process, especially if this is your first competition.  There are a couple of very important details that you [...]

Two of the most forgotten elements of a competition are nutrition and rest.  Nutrition and rest should be at the top of the list when you travel to a meet.  The training ends when you arrive at a competition, but the rest and nutrition never stop.  They allow you to be at your best and [...]

Everyone has probably heard the old saying, “Practice Makes Perfect.”  Not many people would refute this statement, but some, including the coaches at Santa Clara Diving, would say something a bit different such as, “PERFECT Practice Makes Perfect.”  Practice is all well and good, unless you are just going through the motions and not trying [...]

Routines are a part of the everyday life.  Routines are something that a person can rely on and come to expect as normal.  The same can be true for diving routines.  They are as important as remembering to wear a swimsuit at Santa Clara Diving.  Diving routines can be the calming effect during a long [...]

Diving can be considered one of the most mentally challenging sports out of all of them.  One small single error can cause a chain reaction of problems during a dive.  Unfortunately fear plays a very pivotal role in the development of a diver because of this reason, but there are ways to overcome that fear [...]

5 – Part Series to Enhance Your Training & Go for the Gold Diving is an individual sport where every diver must rely on himself or herself to perform well.  There are several things that a diver can do leading up to a competition that can enhance the training cycle and give the diver a [...]

“SMACK!”  “Ouch…that hurt!”  “Oops!”  If you have been around diving at all, you are fully aware of what can happen at the pool: the belly flop, the back smack, the instant tan (reddening of the skin after hitting the water wrong such as a sun burn).  These are what we call the “oops moments” at [...]