Sagebrush Diving: Rocky Mountain Diving Excellence

E-mail Coach Kev with questions of where to start. Our divers have moved on to 27 different college teams (and counting...) across the United States. See Team Information for a history of our club team.

5/1/12: Sagebrush places 5th as a team at 16th Annual Spring Fling. MEET RESULTS

4/28/12: Cody Engstrom Shows The Power of an Eagle, Clawing His Way to Mustang Diving Invite Title at VMAC in Thornton, CO Against the two strongest 5A seniors in the State of Colorado (Andrew Hull at EAST, and Eric McMillin at Rocky Mtn), Cody Engstrom recovered from a missed gainer (305c) in semifinals to win at the 2012 4A State venue, VMAC in Thornton, just a couple weeks away. Good place to win, after narrowly placing second to Hull just less than a month ago at Coaches Invite. RESULTS and INDIVIDUAL DIVE CARDS (Cody page 41) are posted (thanks so much to meet director, DJ Hummel, for sending).

4/19/12: USA West Nationals in OKC LIVE RESULTS HERE

Cody Engstrom, Taylor Jackson, Duncan Lester, and Matt Mauser represented the Sagebrush Diving National Team in Oklahoma City, OK, surviving thunderstorms, tornados, delays, and abrupt changes in the format of a meet (first time I have ever seen an INDOOR facility freak out about weather outdoors). Click on the Live Results HERE link above for detailed results. Congrats to all the divers, and watch and see how they continue to improve.

3/31/12: Sagebrush BOYZ fair well at Coaches Invite. Cody Engstrom, Matt Mauser and Charlie Marks competed last weekend at the prestigious Coaches Invite. The competition was fierce and MUCH deeper than last year's meet. Happy to say that two Sagebrush Boyz made it onto the podium (top 8), with Mauser finishing 6th overall (he placed 3rd at the meet last year, but is obviously much better) and Engstrom taking home the silver medal, only 15 points out of 1st placing behind the powerful Andrew Hull (of Denver East and Denver Triton). Marks ended up on the tail end of a controversy that I hope the Coaches Invite committee sorts out before the next Invite. Charlie was in 3rd place after 1 dive, but then proceeded to miss his next two dives. Wasn't his best day, but was in 27th at the point that they cut to the top 32. The meet committee decided that they were only going to let 4 Regis divers into the top 32 (contradictory to the only meet requirement that each team may only qualify 4 athletes into the top 16). A little premature on knocking him out, and he was the 5th wheel, so to speak, on this machine we call Regis Jesuit. A couple other former Sagebrush divers faired well, with JP Nelson finishing 15th, and Aaron Hagglof placing 30th. Results

3/13/12: Sagebrush Diving runs into toughest competition yet in Region 6 championships! The good news is our team still qualified 4 divers in six events to the West Championships meet to be held in Oklahoma City. The even better news is... the majority of our team was quickly educated on what we need to do to get to the next level. "I'm very excited about what this competition will do to the training attitudes of our divers," admitted Coach Kevin Sage. "There is no doubt that we have some exciting things happening, but the fact remains that our team is still the most inexperienced and new team in the Region. This meet gave each diver a wake-up call." Despite that, Sagebrush Diving finished 6th out of 19 teams registered, to finish in the top 3rd of the group should feel good. Hopefully, none of you are satisfied!!!

RESULTS HERE!!!

2/25/12: Sagebrush Divers Get Ready for Region 6. The divers competed in a Regional format meet to get ready for the upcoming Region 6 Championships. All did a great job, learned much and hopefully are more ready to take on the region's best divers. Up next, 145 divers from 19 of the best clubs in 9 States converge on Meyers Pool in Arvada, CO, the weekend of March 10-11, 2012. Pre-Regional RESULTS.

2/11/12: Congrats to all Sagebrush Divers that competed at 5A State. Mercedes Clements 13th (and Colorado 5A Diver of the Year!!!), Grace Newell 21st (in her first State meet), Jessica Glass 23rd (in her first State meet), and Alli Murphy 33rd (in her first State meet). Wow!!! Congrats to all of you... can't wait to see what next HS season brings... until then, let's get ready to rumble for Spring and Summer season... and bring on the boys HS!!!

12/31/11: Happy New Year. Practices begin again on Tuesday, January 3rd. See Team Email.

12/17/11: Mercedes Clements (13th) and Jessica Glass (14th) made the Championship Finals of the Colorado Coaches Invite held at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Complex in Thornton, CO. Congrats also goes to Grace Newell (18th), Alli Murphy (22nd), and Savannah Magness (23rd). There were 40 divers qualified for the competition.

Congrats also to Meili Carpenter, who started the 2012 USA Diving National Championships with a RUNNERUP finish in the 1M Quarterfinals in Tennessee. Her coach (Karla Helder, U of Buffalo, and Wings Diving head coach) has got to be proud. Top 8 move on to Finals on Sunday. Stay tuned... as three of the top four from the 2011 Summer Nationals did not even make the Final this meet. Meili, showing her consistency, goes into the Final a heavy favorite, due to her consistency over the past three years in the 1M event. This could be her first National Championship, and this is the last National meet before USA Olympic Trials. Coach Kev's Prediction... Meili wins by 2.5 pts over Deidre Freeman! Go Meili!!!

11/12/11: Sagebrush Diving had a great team showing at the 13th Annual Sagebrush Diving Invite, winning the TEAM TITLE for only the 2nd time in the 13-year history of the longest standing Club diving invitational in Colorado. Matt Mauser continued "doing what he do" (gangsta for "dove really well") by setting the ALL-TIME TOP SCORE in the 14/15 Boys 1-meter (shattering Sean Moore's 7-year old record, and leading a virtual "Who's Who" of top male divers from Colorado). Mauser also finished 2nd ALL-TIME just 8 points behind Moore's best on 3-meter. SIX Other New Top Ten Divers: Matt Jagiello Boys 1M (Altitude Divers), Taylor Jackson in Girls 1M & 3M (Sagebrush Diving), Duncan Lester Boys 3M (Sagebrush Diving), Grace Newell Girls 1M & 3M (Sagebrush Diving), Savannah Magness Girls 1M & 3M (Sagebrush Diving), and Mercedes Clements Girls 1M (Sagebrush Diving).

MORE DETAILS, NEWS, and VIDEOS soon...

10/15/11: Metro State Diving takes team title for second straight season in the 2nd Annual Roadrunner Diving Invite, held at the Auraria Campus Pool. Colorado took the women's title, and Metro State also won the Men's title. RESULTS

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