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Hamilton Spectator
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
13-year-old ElliReese Niday wins 10-meter title at USA Diving national championships
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — ElliReese Niday became one of the youngest champions ever when she won the women's 10-meter title Thursday at the USA Diving national championships. The 13-year-old from Moultrie, Georgia, scored 721.40 points to beat Texas sophomore Bayleigh Cranford by 10 points. 'It doesn't feel real,' Niday said. 'I just tried to stay focused on my own dives and celebrate after.' She's the youngest American diver to win a senior national title in an individual event since 2016, when former Olympian Hailey Hernandez won a 3-meter title at the same age. 'It's really crazy,' Niday said. 'Maybe one day when I grow up, I'll make the Olympic team possibly.' She led after the semifinals, when she had three dives score over 80 points. Her inward 2 1/2 pike earned perfect 10s from three judges at the meet in Auburn, Alabama. Semifinal scores carried over to the final. On Thursday, Niday scored over 80 points on two of her five dives. Niday finished fifth at last year's winter nationals. She's a seven-time junior national champion and won three gold medals at the 2023 Junior Pan American Championships. Niday's mother, Lauryn McCalley Niday, was a standout diver at Tennessee and won national titles in 2000 and 2001 on 3-meter springboard. ___ AP Olympics at
Fox Sports
16-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
13-year-old ElliReese Niday wins 10-meter title at USA Diving national championships
Associated Press AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — ElliReese Niday became one of the youngest champions ever when she won the women's 10-meter title Thursday at the USA Diving national championships. The 13-year-old from Moultrie, Georgia, scored 721.40 points to beat Texas sophomore Bayleigh Cranford by 10 points. 'It doesn't feel real," Niday said. "I just tried to stay focused on my own dives and celebrate after.' She's the youngest American diver to win a senior national title in an individual event since 2016, when former Olympian Hailey Hernandez won a 3-meter title at the same age. 'It's really crazy," Niday said. "Maybe one day when I grow up, I'll make the Olympic team possibly.' She led after the semifinals, when she had three dives score over 80 points. Her inward 2 1/2 pike earned perfect 10s from three judges at the meet in Auburn, Alabama. Semifinal scores carried over to the final. On Thursday, Niday scored over 80 points on two of her five dives. Niday finished fifth at last year's winter nationals. She's a seven-time junior national champion and won three gold medals at the 2023 Junior Pan American Championships. Niday's mother, Lauryn McCalley Niday, was a standout diver at Tennessee and won national titles in 2000 and 2001 on 3-meter springboard. ___ AP Olympics at in this topic
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
13-year-old ElliReese Niday wins 10-meter title at USA Diving national championships
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — ElliReese Niday became one of the youngest champions ever when she won the women's 10-meter title Thursday at the USA Diving national championships. The 13-year-old from Moultrie, Georgia, scored 721.40 points to beat Texas sophomore Bayleigh Cranford by 10 points. Advertisement 'It doesn't feel real," Niday said. "I just tried to stay focused on my own dives and celebrate after.' She's the youngest American diver to win a senior national title in an individual event since 2016, when former Olympian Hailey Hernandez won a 3-meter title at the same age. 'It's really crazy," Niday said. "Maybe one day when I grow up, I'll make the Olympic team possibly.' She led after the semifinals, when she had three dives score over 80 points. Her inward 2 1/2 pike earned perfect 10s from three judges at the meet in Auburn, Alabama. Semifinal scores carried over to the final. Advertisement On Thursday, Niday scored over 80 points on two of her five dives. Niday finished fifth at last year's winter nationals. She's a seven-time junior national champion and won three gold medals at the 2023 Junior Pan American Championships. Niday's mother, Lauryn McCalley Niday, was a standout diver at Tennessee and won national titles in 2000 and 2001 on 3-meter springboard. ___ AP Olympics at
Winnipeg Free Press
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
13-year-old ElliReese Niday wins 10-meter title at USA Diving national championships
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — ElliReese Niday became one of the youngest champions ever when she won the women's 10-meter title Thursday at the USA Diving national championships. The 13-year-old from Moultrie, Georgia, scored 721.40 points to beat Texas sophomore Bayleigh Cranford by 10 points. 'It doesn't feel real,' Niday said. 'I just tried to stay focused on my own dives and celebrate after.' She's the youngest American diver to win a senior national title in an individual event since 2016, when former Olympian Hailey Hernandez won a 3-meter title at the same age. 'It's really crazy,' Niday said. 'Maybe one day when I grow up, I'll make the Olympic team possibly.' She led after the semifinals, when she had three dives score over 80 points. Her inward 2 1/2 pike earned perfect 10s from three judges at the meet in Auburn, Alabama. Semifinal scores carried over to the final. On Thursday, Niday scored over 80 points on two of her five dives. Niday finished fifth at last year's winter nationals. She's a seven-time junior national champion and won three gold medals at the 2023 Junior Pan American Championships. Niday's mother, Lauryn McCalley Niday, was a standout diver at Tennessee and won national titles in 2000 and 2001 on 3-meter springboard. ___ AP Olympics at
NBC Sports
15-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
ElliReese Niday wins U.S. diving national title at age 13
ElliReese Niday, 13, became one of the youngest divers in history to earn a senior U.S. title, winning the women's platform event at the national championships in Auburn, Alabama. Niday totaled 721.40 points over 10 combined dives from Wednesday's semifinal and Thursday's final, prevailing by 10 points over Bayleigh Cranford. In most cases, the top two divers per individual event at nationals and winning synchronized teams qualify for this summer's World Championships. But Niday is too young for the World Championships because she doesn't turn 14 before the end of 2025. Niday, from Moultrie, Georgia, is the daughter of Lauryn McCalley, who won national titles on the springboard in 2000 and 2001. USA Diving doesn't have a complete list of all-time national champions by age, but did find another 13-year-old who captured a senior title — Marjorie Gestring in 1936, the same year she won Olympic springboard gold. Gestring remains the youngest person on record to win a Summer Olympic gold medal, according to the OlyMADMen group of Olympic historians. In December 2016, Hailey Hernandez won the 3m springboard at USA Diving's Winter Nationals at age 13. Neither Delaney Schnell nor Daryn Wright, the U.S. Olympians in Paris in women's platform, competed in the event at nationals this week. Also at nationals, Max Flory won the men's 3m springboard with 922 points, prevailing by 27.3 points over Collier Dyer. Carson Tyler, whose fourth-place finish at the Olympics was the best by an individual U.S. diver, placed fourth at nationals after hitting his feet on the board on his fifth of six final dives, a commentator said. Earlier this week, Tyler won the synchronized platform event with Josh Hedberg. Nationals finish Friday with women's springboard and men's platform finals. The World Championships are in Singapore in July and August. USA Diving 2025 National Championships Results Men's Platform: Friday *Men's 1m Springboard: 1. Lyle Yost. 2. Nicholas Harris Men's 3m Springboard: 1. Max Flory, 2. Collier Dyer Men's Synchro Platform: 1. Carson Tyler/Josh Hedberg Men's Synchro Springboard: 1. Jack Ryan/Grayson Campbell Women's Platform: 1. ElliReese Niday**, 2. Bayleigh Cranford, 3. Ella Roselli *Women's 1m Springboard: 1. Anna Kwong 2. Hailey Hernandez Women's 3m Springboard: Friday Women's Synchro Platform: 1. Daryn Wright/Bayleigh Cranford Women's Synchro Springboard: 1. Anna Kwong/Sophie Verzyl *Mixed Synchro Platform: 1. Bayleigh Cranford/Tyler Wills *Mixed Synchro Springboard: 1. Luke Hernandez/Kyndal Knight *Not an Olympic event, but is held at World Championships **Too young for World Championships Nick Zaccardi,
