Wednesday, February 19
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American Athletic Conference Championship
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Mean Green Dominate Team Diving to Open AACs
2/19/2025 6:57:00 PM | Swimming and Diving
DALLAS - The Mean Green made their presence felt early at the opening night of the American Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championships on Wednesday night, as the trio of Sydney Guidara, Amelia Sharp and Kamryn Wong cruised to the first diving conference championship in program history with a 50-point victory in the Team Diving event, which is scored like a swimming relay and awards double points to the team (64 points for first place).
The event consists of six dives - two platform dives and two each off the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards, and the UNT team had stellar dives throughout the event, eventually running away with the win with a program record and conference record score of 312.30. That broke the previous program record set at last year's conference championship, when UNT surprised the field with a second-place finish. The win is the first for the program at a conference championship since 2019, when UNT was a member of Conference USA, and the first championship since joining The American prior to the 2022-23 season.
Sharp, a freshman and the school-record holder on platform, dove off both the 7-meter and 10-meter platforms, while Guidara and Wong, the school-record holders on 3-meter and 1-meter, respectively, did both board disciplines.
"I'm so incredibly proud of them," associate head coach/diving coach Stephanie O'Callaghan said. "I knew we had a good chance to win it, and they just came out so strong and dominated. It was a whole team effort from the whole squad. It was amazing to watch the support amongst the whole group. And to top it off, they set a new school record, but I have a feeling that will be broken again."
Earlier in the evening, the 200 medley relay team of Emily Ally, Mikaela Goelst, Samantha Robles and Shaena McCloud, broke a six-year-old school record with a time of 1:40.05 to finish fifth and score 50 points for the team. The 800 freestyle relay team of Indra Vandenbussche, Kayleigh Lovell, Scarlett McCloud and Kailey Turner took fourth to score 52 points
The meet continues on Thursday, with UNT sitting just six points behind leader Tulane in second place, with the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, 1-meter diving and 200 freestyle relay, and can be seen on ESPN+.
Fans can follow the program throughout the year on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The event consists of six dives - two platform dives and two each off the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards, and the UNT team had stellar dives throughout the event, eventually running away with the win with a program record and conference record score of 312.30. That broke the previous program record set at last year's conference championship, when UNT surprised the field with a second-place finish. The win is the first for the program at a conference championship since 2019, when UNT was a member of Conference USA, and the first championship since joining The American prior to the 2022-23 season.
Sharp, a freshman and the school-record holder on platform, dove off both the 7-meter and 10-meter platforms, while Guidara and Wong, the school-record holders on 3-meter and 1-meter, respectively, did both board disciplines.
"I'm so incredibly proud of them," associate head coach/diving coach Stephanie O'Callaghan said. "I knew we had a good chance to win it, and they just came out so strong and dominated. It was a whole team effort from the whole squad. It was amazing to watch the support amongst the whole group. And to top it off, they set a new school record, but I have a feeling that will be broken again."
Earlier in the evening, the 200 medley relay team of Emily Ally, Mikaela Goelst, Samantha Robles and Shaena McCloud, broke a six-year-old school record with a time of 1:40.05 to finish fifth and score 50 points for the team. The 800 freestyle relay team of Indra Vandenbussche, Kayleigh Lovell, Scarlett McCloud and Kailey Turner took fourth to score 52 points
The meet continues on Thursday, with UNT sitting just six points behind leader Tulane in second place, with the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, 1-meter diving and 200 freestyle relay, and can be seen on ESPN+.
Fans can follow the program throughout the year on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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