Mini White Rose & G-Star 2022 Review
With the ongoing support of Pilkington Estates a team of twenty-five Plymouth divers travelled to
Leeds over the weekend to compete in the Mini White Rose for Skills divers and G-Star for Age Group
divers.
It was the first opportunity for the Skills divers to showcase their talent in over two years and for the
vast majority their first ever competition. Group D girls had the largest group of divers to battle
against. Alice Jones and Eva Tsianavas dived well amongst the twenty-eight strong pack and gained
valuable experience. Isla Applin had an incredible round of dives finishing with the spectacular silver
medal. Isaac Ide proved unbeatable for the boys in group D topping the podium with a glorious gold.
Group C girls all finished in the top half. Poppy Jones in eighth position, Abigail Bishop sixth and Ava
Cowper fourth and only just missed out on the bronze medal by less than two points. Group C boys
could not have dived better leaving no room for any other club on the podium. With an outstanding
performance by all three boys Kaiwen Dun won the bronze medal, Lincoln Stephens the silver and
Louis McCue the gold. In group B Kiri Pethick finished in a respectable ninth position and Laura
Burrows was fourth.
All of the Age Group divers had it tough with other teams putting up a fight it left no room for error to
even qualify for a final. Harry Westbury in group D picked up two finalist medals. He finished in
fourth place on the 1m board and fifth on 3m. Between them the group C boys managed to win a
finalist medal across all three boards. Noah Underwood in fifth on 1m, Will Heath was sixth on 3m
and fourth on platform with Oscar Westbury joining him in fifth. Eva Lang and Lexi Davies took on all
three boards in the group C girls section. The most successful board for Lexi was 3m where she
qualified for the final to win the sixth position medal. Erin Healey and Mathilde Tassart represented
the club in group B along with Ella Cornish, Ellie Pearce, Maia Pearson, Ben Hall and Ben Kearton in
group A.
The coaches for the three day event were Tommy Davis, Ebony Colbourne and Lucy Gutierrez-
Freeman. It was the first time away coaching for newly qualified Ebony and Lucy and they handled
the experience admirably with guidance from Tommy.
