In this year's A-10 Championship Swim Meet, 57 of the 570 points earned by 1st place women's finisher Richmond Univ. came from 4th and 7th places in the 1 meter diving event (27 points) and 2nd and 6th places in the 3 meter event (30 points).  Since the Dukes did not field a diving team this season, they did not have an opportunity to score any points in these two events.  The Dukes will have a women's diving team next season which will give them a chance to earn points in the two diving events and perhaps tighten the point differential between them and Richmond, the perennial A-10 women's champion, and maybe even beat Richmond once the Dukes' diving team gets more experience.  

I will be covering swimming A-10's on Saturday over the WBB home game. Swimming with the addition of diving has a serious chance to make history and beat Richmond which has had a stranglehold on the conference for years now. These ladies work hard for months on end and it will be interesting to see how they fare at Spire this week.