County Diving Skills 2026
Parkside pools was the host for the 2026 Swim England Cambridgeshire County Skills championships. The event saw five age categories with divers from all over the county taking part.
The first two events were the group E and D events. Both categories run as a 12-dive circuit with three stations each with four dives. Starting with the Group E Boys, Anton Reilly was the gold medallist setting a new county record with a total score of 242.55
In the Girls category it was a well fought competition with Octavia Steer taking the silver medal with a score of 218.05 and Cosima Humphrey taking the gold medal with 235.05.
Boys D saw Cambridge dive team divers take the top three spots. Adrian Rojee placing 3rd with a score of 218.75. Sebastian Zanella scoring 228.05 to take the silver medal. Way out in front with a score of 252.55 was James Hughes scooping up the gold.
Girls Group D was won by Gabriella Aldridge with a score of 229.30.
Up next was the group C event in which there has been a massive criteria over hall this year to better align diving across the entire pathway. Group C now consists of two set skills and three optional skills on the 1m followed by 2 line-ups of the divers choice followed by 3 optional dives on the 3m board. The Gold medal in the C boys event was won by Raymond Hu with a score of 240.45 setting a new county record with Digby Bord scoring 200.95 to take the silver medal. Group C Girls was a tightly fought event with Erica Webster placing 4th, and Naomi Rojee taking the bronze medal with a score of 222. Tightly separated by only 6 points the gold medal went Phoebe Carter-Burch with a new county record of 238.75 whilst Melodie Meeds placed 2nd with 231.15.
Group B girls follows a slightly different set of dives to group C with the divers having 5 optional dives on the 1m board and then 5 optional dives on the 3m. Kirsty Matthams was the gold medal winner with 229.25.
Group A was the final event of the day with the divers competing over two boards.
The group A boys event features a 1m event and a 3m event in which both were won by Jack Halls. Jack took the gold medal on 1m with a score of 183.55 setting a new county record. He took the gold medal on 3m with a score of 160.85.
The girls A event was tightly fought with Yuting Wang taking the bronze medal on both boards with a score of 137.00 on 1m and a score of 141.75 on the 3m board. Eva Tsang took home the silver medal on 1m with a score of 174.80 with her team-mate Yuzu Baxendale narrowly beating her to the goal with a score of 179.80.
Yuzu also took the gold on 3m setting a new county record in the process with a total score of 183.45 with Eva Tsang in silver place.
SE Cambridgeshire Senior and Junior Diving Championships 2026
Cambridge Parkside Pools was host to the Swim England Cambridgeshire County senior and junior diving championships. Divers compete on both 1m and 3m springboards and 5m platform to gain individual board honours and a trophy for the overall points score winner.
Starting on 1m it was clear that there would be close battles in most events. James Hughes was out on his own winning with 112.10 points. A battle between the girls saw Hallie Cave hold off a strong challenge from Karina Baxendale and fast improving Phoebe Carter-Burch. In the senior female event, the lead changed hand throughout the five-dive competition with Tobi Fayomi taking gold with a 3-point lead over Eva Tsang and 5 points over Yuzu Baxendale. There was some fine diving in the senior open event with Finn Macfarlane stamping his authority with high scoring complex dives to win with 258.55 but pressed hard by Rufus Bord and Charles Tibbatts for silver and bronze medals respectively.
Moving onto the 3m springboard it was the same 3 girls taking the medals but in a different order. Hallie scooped the gold again, but it was Phoebe’s turn to win silver just edging out Karina by 3 points. James Hughes continued his winning run with a gold in the boy’s event with a total score that secured him the boys points trophy. It was all change in the 3m senior female competition with Sophia Howard showing better form on this board and taking the title with 178.5 points from Tobi in silver and Yuzu in bronze position. The senior men repeated the finish order of the 1m board of Finn, Rufus and Charles but it was a much tighter finish – with all men demonstrating fine twisting and somersaulting skills.
Moving up to platform Hallie made it a hat-trick of gold medals making her the overall junior female winner. The fight was on for the senior female title with the 5m to be the decider. Tobi scored really well but Sophia rose to the challenge and with some amazing rip entries rewarded by the judges gave her gold medal and the overall senior female county title.
Finishing the evening the senior open event was another highlight with excellent diving and again featuring the same 3 divers for the medals. However, it was the turn of Charles to impress with his complex dives and precision entries to take gold, whilst achieving a new county platform record. Finn in silver and Rufus in bronze. Despite this win Finn had the highest overall score to take the senior open county title.
The County President, Ian Liversedge , was there to enjoy the evening and present medals and trophies.
County Skills Championships 2025
County Diving Championships 2025
Full report (links to an external website)
County Skills Competition 2024
Parkside Pools in Cambridge was host to the County Skills Diving event which saw 18 competitors take part. The event is a great lead up to the Regional Skills competition and allowed divers to practise their skills before the subsequent qualifying event.
County Junior and Senior Diving Championships 2024
Cambridge Parkside Pools was host to the 2024 diving county championships meet. This competition saw divers compete in both 1m and 3m springboard and 5m platform events over the course of one evening.
The diver securing the most points over the three boards winning the championship
Winners of the Senior Championships Amelia Aldridge and Rufus Bord (both from Cambridge Diving Team)
