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Your life's pretty close to perfect, right? Wrong. Your life is pretty close to hectic. Why? Although you are among the nation's finest, Blodgett Pool's lack of a 10-meter platform severely limits your ability to train in Cambridge. Instead, you must find other means and other locales--traveling five days early to a tournament, perhaps--to hone your skills...
...performed astonishingly well. With only four days to practice on the 10-meter platform, Jacobson placed sixth in a field of 36 dives, stockpiling 411.69 points in two days worth of competition. Patty Armstrong, a non-collegiate competitor from the private Woodlands Diving Team, garnered 451.74 points and first place in the competition...
...think I was surprised but I was definitely pleased [with Jacobson's performance]," says Harvard diving coach Keith Miller. "Since she does not train on the 10-meter platform regularly, I thought that it could go either way. If she hits her dives, she can be in the top three [in the country] or better in this event...
Jacobson left for the Championships a week ago Friday to prepare for the 10-meter tower. Further complicating matters was the fact that because the event was not connected to the NCAA and took place out of season, Harvard could not finance the trip. Both Jacobson and Miller paid for expenses out of their own pockets...
...order to finish preparing, we went down there five days early," Miller says. "[Lara] dove on the 10-meter Saturday, rested Sunday, dove on Monday, then rested Tuesday. You need all that rest because when you're not used to diving from 10 meters, it makes you very sore because you hit the water so hard...