Dive-by-Dive Scoring | Diving Canada Winter National Championships
TORONTO -- Jamie Bissett of Purdue men's swimming and diving won silver as the runner-up finisher in 1-meter diving Saturday afternoon to complete his successful weekend of competition at Diving Canada's Winter National Championships.
Bissett's list score of 365.05 was 3.20 points behind event champion Cam McLean, who rallied to win the event with a strong final dive. Bissett was among the top two throughout the competition, averaging 60.41 points per dive in the afternoon finals. His last dive earned a score of 67.50, which was his second-best mark of his list. But McLean's 76.80 on his final dive allowed him to overtake both Bissett and Tyler Henschel, who had the lead entering the final round.
McLean is a Texas A&M alumnus and Henschel is currently a redshirt-freshman for the Aggies.
Bissett won his first career Canadian national title in 3-meter diving Friday with a career-best score in the evening finals. He seemed to carry the momentum over into the 1-meter prelims Saturday morning, in which he was the top qualifier with a list score of 382.35 - averaging 63.72 points per dive. Henschel and McLean finished 2-3 in the prelims, with Bissett winning the prelim round by 27.40 points.
The Purdue senior still managed to medal twice this weekend in his first Canadian diving competition in nearly three years. In the process, he earned a spot in the Canadian Cup Grand Prix in April and put himself in position to potentially represent his country at the Pan Am Games and/or FINA World Championships this summer.
The Ottawa native managed to post career-best scores on both 1-meter (382.35) and 3-meter (451.45) this weekend. He earned over 60 points on each of his six dives in the 1-meter prelims Saturday en route to the personal record. However, in the finals, a lackluster score of 44.95 on his fourth dive ultimately cost Bissett an opportunity to sweep the springboard events. McLean also missed his fourth dive (score of 39.00), but made up for it with a pair of dives that earned awards of 75-plus, including the big final dive.
Bissett and the rest of the men's swimming and diving team are scheduled to compete next at the Big Ten Championships, set for Feb. 25-28 in Iowa City, Iowa. He has been the Boilers' top individual scorer at Big Tens each of the last two years.
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