Dive Chairperson:
Douglas Halkenhauser
(973) 668-9164
dugnology@optonline.net

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Practices Start June 19th 

Parent Training Night June 20th 

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2024 Dive Meet Schedule: Warm up at 5, meet starts at 6

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Exhibition Meet: June 25th Indian

Front Meet: June 27th Mountain

Back Meet: July 2nd Indian

Inwards / Sommie Meet: July 11th Mountain

Twist Meet: July 18th Indian 

Open Meet: July 25th Mountain

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Hub Lakes Championship July 27th Indian @ 7:30 AM

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Diving Rules

 

1. Current U.S. Diving rules will apply as modified by participating Hub Lakes diving coaches, lake reps, and diving chairperson.
    

2. All divers must make an honest attempt to complete all the required and optional dives
    

3. Hub Lakes entry forms will be issued and used for all meets.
    

4. All entry forms must be completely filled out and signed by the diver and coach (or lake rep) for all meets.
    

5. All entries must be submitted to the clerk of the meet no later than 6:15 p.m. Divers submitted after this time will be exhibition only.
    

6. At each meet, a minimum of 5 table workers are required. Positions are: Announcer, score keeper, tabulator, awards table (2 persons). Mt. Lakes will provide 2 table workers and 2 judges, Indian Lake will provide 2 table workers and 2 judges, and Cedar will provide 1 table worker and 1 judge.
    

7. No lake will be allowed to participate in a meet unless it supplies one judge, 18 or over (other than coaches).
    

8. Three or five judges may be used in a meet - five is recommended.
    

9. Referee may stop the meet any time if, in his/her opinion, the divers do not have enough time to complete the remaining dives before darkness.
    

10. Home team manager must cancel the meet because of inclement weather, etc. before 5:30 p.m. Any rain cancellations for meets #1-#5 will result in a makeup meet the following Tuesday night. If meet #6 is rained out, it will not be made up but any diver whose sheet was entered for the meet will have met the requirements for the Championship Meet.
     

11. Age groups: 8/under, 9/10, 11/12, 13/14, 15/17, 18/over.
     

12. Any number of divers will be allowed to dive officially from each team.
     

13. Each age group will dive together. Boys completing their required dives as a group and Girls completing their dives as a group.
     

14. Scoring: (per age group) 1st- 7pts, 2nd-5 pts, 3rd-4pts, 4th-3 pts, 5th-2 pts, 6th-1pt.
     

15. All meets will start promptly at 6:30 p.m.
     

16. Divers ages 10 + under may only compete on the 1 meter board. Divers 11 + over may complete their dives on the 1 meter or 3 meter board.
     

17. After the completion of a dive, the referee (or by consensus of the coaches) if the dive is not to be scored. Scores will be shown simultaneously.
     

18. The referee (individual or committee) should be decided before the meet starts. If an individual referee isn't available, coaches, working cooperatively will fill this role by committee.
     

19. Judges should not discuss their score before awarding the diver.
     

20. Calculating diver scores is done in the following manner: add the judges scores with 5 judges, the highest and lowest are discarded and the middle scores are totaled. multiply the sum by the degree of difficulty for the total for that dive. add the total to the running total of all dives. It is the responsibility of the table workers of each lake to monitor score sheets for errors. Corrections made after the scores are read must be agreed to by the lake coach, rep and diving chairperson.
     

21. All jumps will be completed with a degree of difficulty of .5 for a maximum possible judges score of 2.0.
     

22. The age guidelines will be as follows:
    •  Ages 10 + under will be able to compete both back and front jumps 100 and 200.
    •  Divers 11+ over will be allowed to compete 1 jump total, either front jump (100) or back jump (200) per competition, including championships but excluding meet #6, where no divers age 11 + over will be allowed to compete jumps.
     

23. Weekly dive league briefings will take place from 5:50PM to 6:01PM before the meet. Coaches, lake reps, and the dive chairperson will attend should their respective Mayors not be available.

DIVING REQUIREMENTS

Age Group 11/12. 4 dives. 2 required and 2 optional. The 2 required dives must be from two
different groups. (#100, 200, 300, 400, 5000). Optional dives may be from any of the 5 groups, but they
may not be both from the same group. However, each diver must include at least 3 groups in his/her
dives. All dives from either the high or low board.

Age Group 13/14. 5 dives. 2 required and 3 optional. The 2 required dives must be from two
different groups. (#100, 200, 300, 400, 5000). Optional dives may be from any of the 5 groups, but they
may not be both from the same group. However, each diver must include at least 3 groups in his/her
dives. All dives from either the high or low board.

Age Group 15/17. 6 dives. 3 required and 3 optional. The 3 required dives must be from three
different groups. (#100, 200, 300, 400, 5000). Optional dives may be from any of the 5 groups, but they
cannot repeat any group. However, each diver must include at least 3 groups in his/her dives. All dives
from either the high or low board.

Age Group 18/Over. 6 dives. 3 required and 3 optional. The 3 required dives must be from three
different groups. (#100, 200, 300, 400, 5000). Optional dives may be from any of the 5 groups, but they
cannot repeat any group. However, each diver must include at least 3 groups in his/her dives. All dives
from either the high or low board.

3. Championship Meet Volunteers

#1. Officials
1. 5 judges for each age group
2. 5 table workers to be selected by the lake reps
3. 1 referee or by consensus of the (3) coaches

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Diving Championship Rules:

#6 The Hub Lakes diving from must be filled out completely & signed by the diver before it is accepted by the
Diving Chairperson on the Friday before Hub Championships. A dive once submitted may be changed up until
the announcement of the dive only with the approval of the Diving Chairperson and the Referee (or a consensus
of the (3) coaches).

#7. All diving forms must be in the hands of the Diving Chairperson by 8:00 p.m. the Friday before Hub
Championships.

#17. After completion of a dive, the referee (or a consensus of the (3) coaches) will signal the judges if the
dive is not to be scored. Scores will be shown simultaneously.

21. All jumps will be completed with a degree of difficulty of .5 with a maximum possible judge’s score of 2.0.
The guidelines will be as follows:

1. Ages 8 +under can compete front, back and twist jumps

2. Ages 9/10 will be able to compete both back and front jumps from the 100 (front jump) and 200
group (back jump)

3. Divers 11 +over will be allowed to compete 1 jump total, either from the 100 group (front jump)
or the 200 group (back jump) per competition, excluding championships and meet #6, where no
divers ages 9 and over will be allowed to compete jumps.

4. 18 and up show up. 15-17 need 1 meet and below 15 two meets.