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Kristina Kennedy |
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Showed great improvement after transferring to Notre Dame from Albion College in the fall of '01 ... will allow the Irish diving corps to go at least three and maybe four divers deep this season.
AS A SOPHOMORE: Posted her best one-meter score of the season (234.66 points) against Villanova ... also scored 208.87 against Northwestern on the one-meter board ... her best three-meter point-total was 324.90 against Illinois and Iowa ... also scored 292.40 points at the Notre Dame Invitational.
AT ALBION COLLEGE: Participated in her first full season of diving after diving for only three months in high school ... took third at the 2001 Michigan state meet ... earned all-conference honors after placing seventh in one-meter diving and ninth on the three-meter board at the conference meet.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Only dove for three months her junior year of high school at Novi High School after participating in gymnastics the previous 13 years ... team won the level seven state championship ... state and regionally ranked from 1995-97 ... also qualified for nationals in 1997 ... also earned all-conference honors in track and field as a junior and senior ... middle of three children for Tom and Marie Kennedy ... born on Sept. 25, 1982 in Michigan ... ... has a 3.262 grade-point average and was on the Dean's List in the spring of 2002 ... enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters, majoring in English
