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"I always enjoyed being in the water during the summer," Koerckel says. "I loved the beach and just jumping off the diving board with my brother. Eventually, this progressed to the local swim teams. Everyone I knew was on them."
Sophomore Keiko Iwahara performed superbly, winning the 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly. Freshman Christen Deveney also swam well, finishing second in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke. In the diving section, junior Kara Miller won the one and three meter competitions.
As the book is a technothriller, we wouldn't expect lucid, evocative prose, although Davis does present us with the occasional gem: "He cut the corpse's intestines with the sangfroid of an obstetrician clipping a baby's navel cord..." But at other moments Davis lapses into tiresome literary tics...
Sophomore Keiko Iwahara was also in top form, finishing first in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events. Junior Kara Miller won both the one-meter and three-meter springboard, making a clean sweep of the diving portion of the competition.
That's a lot of confidence for a newcomer to the collegiate diving scene, but it takes confidence to dive, whether it be 100 feet below the ocean's surface, 10,000 feet above the ground, five feet above a mobbed mosh pit, or off of a one-meter diving...