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...diving preliminaries of the Harvard Invitational yesterday afternoon, it was hard to miss the parade of divers taking their leaps off the board. But if you looked carefully enough, you would have seen five men sitting calmly by the side of the pool flashing numbers after each dive...
Unlike the divers, who nervously approached each dive, the coaches seemed relaxed. They also judged incredibly quickly; the divers had hardly completed their dive when the scores were read. Watching all this, one couldn't help but wonder how one goes about judging a dive. Conversations with the coaches revealed clear differences in their judging philosophies...
...There are rules that govern the sport and that specify the things to judge," Harvard men's and women's diving Coach Keith Miller said. Miller's philosophy relies heavily on the rulebook as a means of assessing a dive's point total...
...said you look for such things as the approach to the dive, the height in the air, the gracefulness of the dive and the entry into the water...
Colgate men's and women's diving Coach Matthew Leone also proposed a different way to judge a dive...