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INDIANAPOLIS ââ'¬" Purdue divers Joe Cifelli and MacKenzie Tweardy both advanced through two rounds of competition to the finals of their events at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Monday.
Cifelli and Tweardy finished among the top 12 competitors to qualify for Saturday's finals, which will be televised live by NBC. Cifelli (732.15 points) advanced in the men's 3-meter and Tweardy (564) moved on in the women's 10-meter. Both Boilermakers were in 10th place after the semifinals Monday night.
Purdue has now had a finalist in all four events in which it has had a representative at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. That trend is expected to continue Tuesday when David Boudia, Nate Cox, Steele Johnson and Max Showalter all compete from the 10-meter individually. Boudia and Johnson are the likely synchronized 10-meter team that will represent Team USA at the Olympics and they also have their sights set on individual Olympic bids as well.
Cifelli was seventh of 37 competitors in the morning prelims, putting himself in excellent position to advance to the finals with an opening list score of 388.95. He averaged a score of 64.8 per dive in his debut at the Olympic Trials. He missed his third dive of the evening semifinals, but scored better than 67 points on four of his other six dives to lock up 10th place despite his list score slipping to 343.20.
Meanwhile, Tweardy rallied in the semifinals to move into the top 12. She was 15th after the prelims but improved on her list score by 29.8 in the semifinals (296.9) to climb five spots. She posted an average score of 59.4 per dive in the semis, earning an award of at least 52 points in all five rounds after two sub-45 scores in the morning prelims had held her back.
Saturday's schedule features the men's 3-meter finals at 4:30 p.m. and the women's 10-meter finals at 8 p.m. NBC and the NBC Live Extra app will be providing the live television coverage of both events. The top two finishers in both competitions earn Olympic berths. Kristian Ipsen (973.20) and Michael Hixon (966.15) lead the way on 3-meter. Jessica Parratto (714.95) and Murphy Bromberg (645.95) are one-two on 10-meter. Scores are cumulative and carry over from the previous rounds.
Tuesday's action begins at 10 a.m. with the women's 3-meter preliminaries followed by men's 10-meter prelims featuring Purdue's four representatives. NBCSN will televise Tuesday's semifinals beginning at 7 p.m.
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