McCrory Takes All-America Honors, Fourth at NCAAs

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McCrory Takes All-America Honors, Fourth at NCAAs

3/27/2010 10:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving

By: Duke Sports Information

Columbus, OHIO – Following a stellar regular season highlighted by two ACC and two NCAA Zone diving titles, Duke freshman diver Nick McCrory earned a berth into this week's 2010 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Columbus, Ohio.

After the championships were postponed one day due to a gastrointestinal virus that forced 18 student-athletes and coaches to seek treatment from the Ohio State University Medical Center and The Ohio State Sports Medicine Center, action got underway on Friday.

McCrory's first event of the championships was the one-meter competition, an event in which he took second place to Florida State's Terry Horner at Zones. The Chapel Hill native got most of the hard work done in preliminaries to ensure himself a spot in the finals. His best dive of the morning session was his 5335D (Reverse 1.5 Somersault 2.5 Twist Free) which had a degree of difficulty of 3.0 and netted him a total of 70.50 points from the judges. McCrory's final dive of prelims was almost equally as impressive; a 405C (Inward 2.5 Somersault Tuck) with a 3.1 degree of difficulty which drew a score of 69.75 points. At the end of the round, McCrory sat squarely in fourth place headed into the evening finals session.

In the finals, McCrory and the other student-athletes vying for a national title raised the bar. The freshman improved upon each of his preliminary-round scores with his largest improvement coming in his final dive. McCrory nailed his 405C, drawing scores of 8.0 to 9.5 from the panel of judges, accumulating to an 80.60 mark. Purdue's David Boudia ended up taking the one-meter national title, shattering the old NCAA meet record by 26 points.

McCrory fell just two points shy of third place, taking fourth place in the nation as a freshman. The finish earned him All-American honors and scored 15 points for Duke, single-handedly pushing the Blue Devils into 19th place by the conclusion of the first day of the 2010 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships.

McCrory's next event will be on Saturday as he takes to the three-meter board. Live results and streaming video of the championships can be found at http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-swim/champpage/inc/div1/m-swim-div1-results.html. Daily recaps will be posted on GoDuke.com.