While the Virginia women were en route to their 9th-straight ACC Championship this weekend, the men’s meet simultaneously got underway at the Greensboro Aquatic Center with the diving portion of the competition already completed.
Meanwhile, the Georgia Tech men picked up massive points thanks to a huge improvement from junior diver Brad Homza. Homza was 13th on the 1-meter, 7th on the 3-meter, and 15th on the platform, scoring 50 points in the C-Final scoring format.
This year, he was 4th on the 1-meter, 6th on the 3-meter, and won the platform. That made for 82 points, which left the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 2nd-place overall after the completion of the diving events.
The biggest individual diving impact of the meet was from Miami sophomore Briadam Herrera, who is a springboard specialist and won his 2nd-straight titles on both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards.
But, as it has been in recent history, the overall winners of the diving portion of this meet were the insanely-deep Virginia Tech Hokies divers. They put 7 divers into A-Finals, more than any other team, including 3 on the platform, and while they didn’t win any events, they matched exactly their 247-point output from last season.
This year, those 247 are even more valuable, as it puts a bigger margin between them and their primary swimming competitions: Virginia (116), and North Carolina (94).
North Carolina State, the defending conference champions, didn’t score any diving points, but also didn’t enter any divers. That means that they’ve saved all of their entries for swimming, where they’ll hope to make up the gap on Virginia Tech (the 2014 champions) and the rest of the conference.
Diving Standings
- Virginia Tech – 247
- Georgia Tech – 149
- Florida State – 134
- Virginia – 116
- Pitt – 101
- North Carolina – 94
- Miami – 92
- Duke – 82
- Louisville – 37
- Notre Dame – 24
- Boston College – 10