facebook icon facebook icon facebook icon
  • About
  • ADS
  • Masthead
    • Editorial Board
  • Submission
  • Subscribe
The Wellesley News -
  • News
    • Contract ratified by Wellesley’s Maintenance and Service Employees Union
      Contract ratified by Wellesley’s Maintenance and Service Employees Union
    • News in Brief
      News in Brief
    • Wellesley adapts to end of race conscious admissions
      Wellesley adapts to end of race conscious admissions
    • Senate Report
    • News in Brief
  • Features
    • Professor Spotlight: Dr. Faisal Ahmed
      Professor Spotlight: Dr. Faisal Ahmed
    • Spotlight: New Professor Kathryn Winner
      Spotlight: New Professor Kathryn Winner
    • Spotlight: New Professor Lucia Nhamo ’11
      Spotlight: New Professor Lucia Nhamo ’11
    • Humans of Wellesley
    • Archives
  • Opinions
    • France’s Abaya Ban Unveils Its Own Misogyny
      France’s Abaya Ban Unveils Its Own Misogyny
    • Editorial: In defense of affirmative action
      Editorial: In defense of affirmative action
    • I am an NCAA champion: we should end college recruiting
      I am an NCAA champion: we should end college recruiting
    • Editorials
    • Letters to Editors
  • Arts
    • The SAG-AFTRA and WGA Strikes: What’s happening in Hollywood?
      The SAG-AFTRA and WGA Strikes: What’s happening in Hollywood?
    • Digging into Hozier’s Unreal Unearth: “De Selby (Part 1)” and the Population of Loss
      Digging into Hozier’s Unreal Unearth: “De Selby (Part 1)” and the Population of Loss
    • Summer Releases to Help Usher in Fall
      Summer Releases to Help Usher in Fall
  • Sports
    • Gauff and Richardson Shatter Expectations
      Gauff and Richardson Shatter Expectations
    • Student Athlete of the Month: Kennedy Mayo
      Student Athlete of the Month: Kennedy Mayo
    • No image
      What even is a BORG and why does it matter?
  • Multimedia
    • Photo of the Week
      Photo of the Week
    • “Stronger Together” Rally with Chelsea Clinton
      “Stronger Together” Rally with Chelsea Clinton
    • College Government Vice President 2016 End of the Year Report
      College Government Vice President 2016 End of the Year Report
    • Podcasts
    • The Wellesley Snooze
  • Projects
      • The News in Conversation
    • About
      • Contact
      • Join the News
      • Masthead
      • Editorial Board
    By Mary Lemay Sports and WellnessMarch 24, 2017

    Wellesley’s Maura Sticco-Ivins three times National champion

    Maura Sticco-Ivins accepts trophy for her National Championship in the one-meter dive on Friday March 17 in Shenandoah, Texas. | Photo courtesy of Wellesley Blue / D3Photography.com

    The week of March 15, Wellesley College, junior Maura Sticco-Ivins became a three-time National champion when she took first place in the three-meter and one-meter dives. Sticco-Ivins scored 504.00 to win the 2017 NCAA Division III three-meter diving National Championship, making her a two time National Champion, as she won the three-meter event in 2015. Two days later, Sticco-Ivins scored 475.40 to win the 2017 NCAA Division III one-meter diving National Championship. Sticco-Ivins becomes the first Wellesley athlete to have three individual National Championships.

    “Maura’s win for the Wellesley Diving program is something that really makes a name for our school.” commented Jack Lewis, the Wellesley Diving coach who is in his first year of coaching at the college. Lewis adds, “With Wellesley being so academically driven, athletics somehow fall on the back burner. Maura shows that you can achieve a great education while achieving at the highest level as well. It is great for our program moving forward.”

    Sticco-Ivins and Lewis were both awarded with College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America honors. Sticco-Ivins was named the 2017 Women’s Diver of the Year and Lewis was named 2017 Women’s Diving Coach of the Year. As Sticco-Ivins finishes up her junior year a three-time national champion, Lewis said that there is always room for improvement, “since a young age [she] has been taught such great basics that really carry over into the bigger and harder dives. We still have harder dives that we can do or improve dives that we are still doing and knowing this keeps her hungry for more.”

    Lewis, with a record-breaking season in his first year of coaching, knows that Wellesley Diving can continue to improve as a group. Lewis comments, “There is only one way to go, I have learned so much from this being my first year and first year at NCAA’s as a coach.”

    Lewis’s goal going forward is to just keep improving. “Diving is a sport where you peak at a certain time and I believe I did a great job of that this year, but moving forward I especially want Maura to finish off her senior year on a high note and be happy with her career. As for my other athletes, to keep them wanting to get better and to have fun.”

    Share on

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Google +
    • LinkedIn
    • Email
    Previous articleNumerous Wellesley student athletes suffer concussions yearly
    Next articleMind Full: 3/22

    You may also like

    Gauff and Richardson Shatter Expectations

    Student Athlete of the Month: Kennedy Mayo

    What even is a BORG and why does it matter?

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    The Wellesley News

      SECTIONS

    • News
    • Features
    • Opinions
    • Arts
    • Sports
    • Multimedia
    • Projects
    • About

      ABOUT

    • Contact
    • Join the News
    • Masthead
    • Editorial Board

      RESOURCES

    • Advertising
    • Submission
    • Subscribe

      CONTACT US

    • Contact
    COPYRIGHT © 2023 THE WELLESLEY NEWS