College Divers
Ann-Perry Blank
College Attending:
University of Georgia
Career Highlights:
- 5th Place, SEC championships (Platform) in 2010
- Dual/Invitational school record holder, with a score of 259.80 points (Platform)
Diving Taught Me:
To manage my time in order to have a good work ethic. It is so important to have good time management when doing a collegiate sport in order to keep good grades and be able to participate in other outside activities.
Anna Aguero
College Attending:
Auburn University, Psychology, Pre-Law.
Career Highlights:
- 2- time All American on 1-meter and Platform
- SEC Runner-up on 1-meter and Platform and Bronze Medalist on 3-meter.
Diving Taught Me:
One thing I have learned is that when I feel like I want to give up and have nothing left in me, I always have more. This benefits me because I know that anything I want to achieve in life is obtainable because when I get stuck or down, I know how to refocus and push onward until I have achieved my goal.
Kelsey Goodman
College Attending:
Florida State University, Family and Child Sciences
Career Highlights:
- Member of the all ACC Academic Team
- Placed 4th on 3 meter at 2011 ACC’s
Current Interests:
I am currently on the FSU SAAC (Student Athlete Academics Counsel) and that keeps me involved in the university and the Tallahassee community, which I have really been enjoying.
Diving Taught Me:
Diving and going to school has matured me in the sense that it forces me to manage my time efficiently. It also instilled hard work in me that carries over to the time management. I believe that these skills will definitely continue to help me through school, and when I graduate and start my working carreer.
Owen Blank
College Attending:
University of Georgia, Major-communications studies, Minor-Spanish
Career Highlights:
- Finaled at SECs on 1m last year, 6th place
- 6th place at Zone Championships
Current Interests:
Music, and all sports
Ryan Helms
College Attending:
University of Tennessee, Kinesiology, Pre-Physical Therapy
Career Highlights:
- 2008 USA Diving Senior National One-Meter Champion
- 2009 SEC Freshman Diver of the Year
Current Interests:
Campus Crusade for Christ, Disc Golf/Frisbee, Fishing
Diving Taught Me:
Being on the University of Tennessee Swimming and Diving team has helped me learn a lot of how to be a good teammate. It seems that being a good teammate would be a simple task to accomplish, but for me it was actually a difficult lesson to learn. I believed that as long as I was working hard and doing my best in and out of the pool then I was a being a good teammate. However, I’ve learned that a good teammate does much more than score points for the team. A good teammate believes in and is able to see potential in each one of his team members, pushes his teammates to conform into the potential he envisions, and most importantly cares for his teammates’ life in relation to their emotional, spiritual, physical, and mental aspects. It’s not until team members can lay down their egos and serve one another that they can truly become a team. That’s what I’ve learned in my tenure here with Tennessee Swimming and Diving.