County Diving Trophies

National Age Groups Performance Award

(Barbara Palmer Trophy)

Presented to the best performing Cambridgeshire diver at the National Age Group Championships

Winner: Rufus Bord

Cambridge Diving Team (CDT) had 8 divers competing across 15 events collecting 5 medals.

In group C (12/13 years) Ryan Church competed on all 3 boards achieving top 10 placings on each board. Tobi Fayomi flew the flag for the girls with a top 12 placing on 3m in group B.

But it was Boys group B (14/15 years) where CDT were really prominent.

Dominic Williams took silver on 1m just one point short of gold with Ben Matthams just outside the medals in 4th.

The platform event saw 2 CDT divers on the podium with Charles Tibbatts in bronze and Rufus Bord in silver.

Rufus and Charles teamed up take a magnificent silver medal in the group A/B 3m synchro event. On the 3m Rufus added another medal by winning his first National Age Group Championship gold medal and earns the NAGs performance award for 2024.

Skills Performance Award

Presented or the highest placed Cambridgeshire diver at the National Skills Championships.

Winner: Hallie Cave

Cambridge Diving Team had its largest entry to NSF for many years and there were some magnificent results.

All  6 entries were in the top 12 of their event – very commendable.

Florence Tibbatts took a silver medal in the C1 age group, but her brother William went one better to take gold in the newly introduced Group A event.

But this year’s winner of the NSF performance award goes to Hallie Cave for her victory in the D2 age group. Scoring 314 points she was a runaway winner in field of 28 divers.

Rufus Bord and Hallie Cave