AUBURN, Ala. – It was another impressive day for the Auburn diving teams at the Auburn Diving Invitational on Tuesday. All three men finished in the top six in the 1-meter while the three women each finished top eight in the 3-meter event to close out the day.
On the men's side, it was sophomore Conner Pruitt who led the way in the 1-meter competition. Pruitt earned 349.50 points in prelims and then followed that with 339.50 points to claim second place in the finals.
"I'm pleased with the prelims list," Pruitt said. "I was able to get some dives in. I think the biggest thing for me right now leading into championship season is probably going to be to work on consistency going from one list to the other."
"There are just some things that he has to be a little more focused on," Auburn head diving coach Jeff Shaffer said. "We're working in practice on being a little bit better balanced on the end of the board for all of his takeoffs. And then just really a little bit more form and finish on his entries. It's all about making mistakes, learning from them, so that given the same situation next time, we'll step up a little bit stronger."
Junior Logan Andrews finished fourth in the finals with 303.30 points, and though Skip Donald just missed an NCAA zone qualifying score in the 1-meter, the freshman did set a personal best with 298.45 points to take sixth place.
Coming off her win in the 1-meter competition Monday, senior Alison Maillard set a new personal best in the 3-meter finals with 349.25 points. She finished third overall behind Florida's Ashley McCool (358.85) and Brooke Madden (353.75).
Freshman Gretchen Wensuc also scored a personal best with 305.05 points in the prelims. Wensuc finished seventh in the finals with 296.10 points followed by teammate and fellow freshman Ashlynn Sullivan who was eighth with 295.70 points.
All three Auburn divers earned NCAA zone qualifying scores in the 3-meter event.
"Any time you get above a zone qualifying score, we're moving in the right direction," Shaffer said. "So it was a really strong women's final, which is what I was hoping for when I designed this meet. It should give us some real strong indications of what we need to work on because come February the same girls are going to be back battling it out."
The men and women will both be back on the boards Wednesday with the men's 3-meter competition beginning at 11 a.m. CT followed by the women's platform event at 3 p.m. CT.
Admission is free to the public. Live results will be available through divemeets.com.