Bluestein wins 1m diving regional championship to qualify for NCAA Championships

WATERVILLE, Maine – Junior Sydney Bluestein of the Amherst College women's swimming and diving team won the Northeast/North regional championship on the one-meter diving board on Friday at the NCAA Regionals at Colby College. The win qualifies Bluestein, the defending national champion in the event, for a return to the NCAA Division III Championships, which will be held March 20-23 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bluestein scored 454.55 points in 11 dives, maxing out with a score of 52.00 on her most difficult dive, a forward two-and-a-half somersault pike that earned marks of 6.5 and 7.0 from the judges. Bluestein, who...