Alabama Divers Set for 2021 Auburn Diving Invitational

AUBURN, Ala. – The Alabama diving corps is set to compete at the Auburn Diving Invitational Dec. 15-18 at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center in Auburn, Ala.

The meet will be the last of 2021 for the Crimson Tide and comes after a strong showing at the Tennessee Invitational in late November. Tanesha Lucoe won the platform event in Tennessee, while Mohamed Farouk and Kevin Li went 1-2 off the 1-meter springboard.

The meet will feature Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Tennessee with Halia Bower, Natalie Donkle, Lucoe and Courtney Russo slated to compete for the Tide women and Li and Hunter Jaynes going for the UA men. Coming off last week's FINA World Junior Diving Championships, Farouk won't compete in Auburn.

The Schedule

The meet opens Wednesday, Dec. 15 at noon with the women's 1-meter springboard
Thursday's events include the men's 1-meter springboard at 11 a.m. and the women's 3-meter at 3 p.m.
Friday includes the men's 3-meter springboard at 11 a.m. and the women's platform at 3 p.m.
The meet closes on Saturday with the men's platform at 11 a.m.

Crimson Tide Divers

Alabama's women are led off the 1-meter springboard (283.43) and platform (276.00) by two-time Southeastern Conference medalist Tanesha Lucoe
Halia Bower leads the Crimson Tide women off the 3-meter board (318.75)
Lucoe has qualified for the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships off the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform, while Bower has qualified off the 1-meter and 3-meter
The men will be without rookie Mohamed Farouk, who competed at the FINA World Junior Diving Championships last week, finaling off the platform and taking ninth overall
The UA men will be led in Auburn by Kevin Li off the 1-meter (358.43) and 3-meter (353.80) springboards
Hunter Jaynes (284.25) will lead the way off platform
Farouk has already qualified for the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships off the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform, while Li has qualified off the 1-meter and 3-meter and Jaynes has qualified off the 3-meter board

Follow Alabama swimming and diving on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook at AlabamaSwimDive.