The diving team has been bolstered this year by the addition of junior Kendall Swett, a transfer student from Lake Forest College and last year's Div. III national champion in the 3-meter dive. Swett has already qualified for Nationals in the 1- and 3-meter dives as well as broken Tufts' records in both events; her 272.48 point record in the 1-meter dive and 297.25 in the 3-meter dive currently rank her among the best scores in Div. III.
College diving is scored with each judge - in most cases, there are seven of them - assigning a score to an athlete's dive on a 0-10 scale based on certain attributes, including the height of the diver at the dive's apex, the diver's body position and the angle of the diver's entry into the water. The highest and lowest scores are eliminated, and the remaining scores are then added and multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty.
A typical collegiate dual meet will have six dives in each event, with each individual dive's score being added together to reach the final cumulative score. In championship meets, there are normally 11 dives per event.
