Ithaca Men's Diver Derek Rand Earns Another All-American Finish
Knoxville, Tenn. - Ithaca junior Derek Rand (Amity/Orange, Conn.) placed 13th in the event finals of the 3-meter diving competition at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships at the University of Tennessee. It was Rand's second all-America finish of the meet, and with those points that he earned as the lone Bomber representative, Ithaca placed 44th of 48 scoring teams at the national meet.
Rand scored 441.15 in the event finals. He totaled 431.25 in the event preliminaries. Rand placed 15th on the 1-meter board earlier this week. He is just the fourth Bomber diver to finish as an all-American and Ithaca's first men's swimming & diving all-American since 2004.