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Damon Kendrick
1971 SAASU Report
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Diving

The Cape Times of the Currie Cup on 22 January 1902 reports that " an interesting exhibition of diving was given by a squad of Green and Sea Point Club members -Messrs. GW Pilkington, J Overbeek, R Barbour, R Solomon and A Cornwell. Their work was beautiful and was received with considerable applause Special mention should be made of R Solomon, and youth of about 14 years, who gave a particularly clean exhibition of the art.

Oonah Whisett - Empire Games 1930

The RSA Cup
This is an unusual competition which starts with a full list dive off to establish the seedings of the divers in the men's and women's events. Once seeded the competition turns into a knockout series based on the Wimbeldon tennis knockout system for the top 8 men and women. The knockouts are one on one events over 5 dives for women and 6 dives for men. The knockout system is a very exciting competition. The divers are allowed to use any dive without limitations - in other words they encouraged to use the most difficult dives possible. The current RSA Cup holder, Nicolas Pawley [CGA] will be battling it out against the van der Sluys brothers, Addie and Marcus, both from Northern Tigers in the men's event. The van der Sluys sisters, Chereze and Nandi are the favourites in the women's event. Ernst de Jong, the internationally renowned artist, former Springbok diver and World Masters Champion diver who donated the pool to the Pretoria City will be doing the honours to open the event.

Ernst de Jong

http://nts-swimming.co.za/index.php?page=diving-news

Rhodesian champion divers in the USA:

  • Don Liebermann to Univ of Texas Arlington 1975;
  • Jane Figueiredo to University of Houston 1982-86 (2nd at NCAA Champs on 1mt 1983); Jane Figueiredo is now doing an excellent job of coaching at Houston
  • Antoinette Wilken to Univ of Houston 1882-85 (2nd at NCAA's 3mt 1985);
  • Simon Draver to Univ of Houston 1983 and then transferred to Univ of Hawaii after Houston dropped men's program;
  • Tracy Cox to Arizona State 1984-88(I think) multiple All American;
  • Christina Pitt to Auburn University(mid to late 80's);
  • Douglas Johnston to Clarion (late 80's);
  • Evan Stewart to University of Tennessee 1993-97(2 x NCAA 3 meter Champion, 1994 World Champion on 1 meter in Rome, 1998 Commonwealth Games Gold medallist 1mt, 1994 Commonwealth Games silver medallist on 3mt and bronze 1mt); returned to his home in Zimbabwe where he is a managing director.
  • Robbie Stewart to TCU 1986-90 (Evan's older brother); Evan and Robbie Stewart's Mom Anthea won a Gold Medal at 1980 Olympics as player-captain-coach of the hockey team, and their Dad was also a Rhodesian diver and water polo team member.
  • Kirsty Carrihill to Flordia State in the mid 90's; She is coaching at a school in Maryland
  • Angela Clark to TCU in the mid to late 90's;
  • Jodie McGroarty (right)2008 to present at Univ of Tennessee on my team. She actually represents and resides in Britain now but learned to dive in Zimbabwe under Anthea Stewart before moving to Britain in 2002 with her family.



Dave Parrington and Debbie Hill - Houston 1980                 Evan Stewart



Don Liebermann and J. Pretorius

 

Sandy Morganrood - Rome 1960
 

Rhodeisian and SA divers 1974 Les Smith, Don Liebermann, Adrienne Wilson, Gina Lawrie SA, Dave Parrington, Jennie Lundie SA, Joe Thewlis SA, Martin Lundie SA

 
Keith Holshausen, Mike Ashwin, Antonette Wilken Batchelor, Jane Figueiredo, Debbie Vaughn, Glen