COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: HARTLEY SHOWS DOMINANCE.Byline: Scott French Staff Writer Blythe Hartley Blythe Hartley (born May 2, 1982 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian Olympic diver. She began diving at age 12. She went to the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta with many other top Canadian athletes[1]. is the NCAA's preeminent diver, and she put on a clinic last week at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships NCAA Team Championships for Women's Swimming and Diving Division I
The USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. senior won two titles - the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards and finished seventh in platform to lead the Trojans to a sixth-place finish. Hartley, who has competed in 11 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association event finals, has won five national crowns and is the only diver to have won titles in all three diving events. She defended her title Friday in the 3-meter springboard, scoring 371.15 points, and routed the competition with a 353.50 in the 1-meter Thursday. USC freshman Rebecca Soni also won a title, winning the 200 breaststroke in 2 minutes, 9.37 seconds. At last week's NCAA Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. finals, Occidental sophomore Robert Dohring finished fourth in the 1-meter and third in the 3-meter diving events. --Track champs: USC senior Jesse Williams successfully defended his NCAA indoor high jump title, clearing 7 feet, 6 inches at the national championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Williams, who set a school record with the jump, won indoor and outdoor titles last year. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX senior Chelsea Johnson won the women's pole vault crown, clearing 14-9. --More honors: Cal Lutheran women's basketball star Lauren Stroot, a former Camarillo High standout who broke the Regals' career scoring record this season, is racking up awards. She was the SCIAC SCIAC SIGINT Correlation Integration & Analysis Capability Player of the Year, D3hoops' West Region Player of the Year, and she's one of 40 finalists for the WBCA WBCA Women's Basketball Coaches Association WBCA Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association WBCA World Blitz Chess Association WBCA Washington's Birthday Celebration Association WBCA West Bay Christian Academy WBCA Wyandotte Bantam Club of America D3 All-America team. UCLA's Nikki Blue, Noelle Quinn and Lisa Willis and USC's Eshaya Murphy (Montclair Prep of Panorama City) are finalists for the WBCA D1 squad. Stroot was joined on the All-SCIAC team by teammates Alex Mallen (Newbury Park), a first-teamer, and Tiffiny Shim A small piece of software that is added to an existing system program or protocol in order to provide some enhancement. (jargon, memory management) shim - A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property. , on the second team. Cal Lu's men's basketball team had a second-team selection (Sergi Lepiashinski), and Occidental's Sam Betty (first team) and Zach Phillips (second) were honored. Redlands' Amir Mazarei (Hillcrest Christian of Thousand Oaks) was a first-teamer. The Master's Ryan Read was an All-GSAC men's choice. --Also: The NCAA's list of the 100 most influential student-athletes of the past 100 years is headed by two former UCLA stars. Baseball star Jackie Robinson, who also played football and basketball and ran track for the Bruins, is No. 1. Tennis legend Arthur Ashe is No. 2. ... UCLA tennis star Benjamin Kohlloeffel, awarded a spot in the qualifying draw for the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells by winning the National Collegiate Championship in January, lost 6-1, 6-4 in the opening round to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, who is ranked 63rd in the world. ... USC's top-ranked women's water polo team has won 16 in a row. Brittany Hayes had hat tricks in the Trojans past two wins, over No. 2 Stanford and San Jose State. ... Cal State Northridge goalkeeper Kevin Guppy, UCLA defender Greg Folk and UCLA-bound defender Chance Myers, a senior at Thousand Oaks High, participated in the first U.S. under-20 men's soccer camp of the year last week in Florida. ... The Master's hired Liberty associate head coach Chuck Martin to be its men's basketball head coach. He succeeds Bill Oates, whose contract was not renewed. Scott French, (818) 713-3627 scott.french(at)dailynews.com |
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