Kentucky Divers Shine at U.S. Open

MIDLAND, Texas – Kentucky’s Kyndal Knight, Abby Devereaux, Sam Duncan and volunteer assistant coach Julia Vincent impressed on the nationwide stage on the 2022 U.S. Diving Open Championship on the COM Aquatics Heart final weekend. The Wildcat quartet notched a number of podium performances all through the meet, which was highlighted by a runner-up end for Knight on the ladies’s 1-meter and a third-place displaying for Vincent on the ladies’s 3-meter.

Knight, the 2022 SEC Feminine Diver of the Yr who will return to Kentucky for a fifth yr in 2022-23, recorded a rating of 253.45 to earn second place among the many 12 contributors within the ladies’s 1M. She was practically 4 factors away from the third-place finisher.

Knight additionally took fourth place within the ladies’s 3M with a mark of 257.90, simply behind Vincent who completed third within the occasion with a mark of 271.55.

Upcoming sophomore Devereaux positioned twenty fifth and thirty first within the preliminary rounds of the ladies’s 1M and 3M, respectively.

On the boys’s facet, Duncan recorded a pair of top-10 finishes on the nationwide stage. The incoming junior was the highest qualifier within the males’s 1M preliminary spherical with 342.65 factors, earlier than incomes seventh place within the occasion’s closing with 313.95 factors. He adopted that efficiency up by incomes tenth place on the 3M with a rating of 318.70.

The 2022-23 Kentucky Swim & Dive season formally will get underway Friday, Sept. 23 with the Blue and White Meet at Lancaster Aquatic Heart.

For the newest on the Kentucky swimming and diving program, observe @UKSwimDive on Twitter and on Instagram, on Fb and on the internet at UKathletics.com.