Tyler wins two more national championships

Published 12:45 pm Monday, April 1, 2024

MOULTRIE — Colquitt County’s Carson Tyler earned two more national titles last week, winning the 3-meter springboard and platform events at the 2024 NCAA National Swimming and Diving Championships.

The Indiana University junior also finished third on 1-meter.

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Tyler defended his championship on platform with a score of 515.75. His 2023 title-winning score was 476.30.

His 3-meter championship score was 476.85.

On 1-meter, he scored a 412.95.

Tyler went into the National Championship meet having swept all three boards at the NCAA Zone C competition held March 13-16.

He also won the 3-meter and platform events and was second on 1-meter in the Big Ten championships Columbus, Ohio, to take the conference Diver of the Championship honor for the second straight year.

He has now won a Big Ten championship on all three boards.

The Moss Farms Diving Tiger is a two-time junior national champion and a two-time GHSA state champion. He holds the Georgia state diving record.

Of this and that:

• Colquitt County wrestler Logan Paradice has committed to compete collegiately at Northern Iowa.

The two-time state champion won titles for the Packers as a freshman in 2022 and as a junior this season.

Paradice, who did not return to action this season until mid-January, won all 17 of his bouts in dominating fashion at 150 pounds.

He won the state championship at 132 pounds in 2022, when he lost just twice all season, but did not wrestle for the Packers last year.

He joins older brother Austin Paradice, who now wrestles at UT-Chattanooga, with two state championships while representing Colquitt County.

Emily Allegood continues to have an outstanding freshman season for the Florida SouthWestern State softball team.

She is batting .392 (40-for-102) with five doubles, five triples, three home runs and 32 RBIs for the 34-4 Buccaneers.

While pitching, she is 3-0 with a save in 39.2 innings in the circle. She has struck out 28 batters and has a 1.59 ERA.

Henry Daniels hit a three-run walk-off home run in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday to give the Georgia Gwinnett College baseball team an 11-8 victory and a sweep of a doubleheader against Cumberland (Tenn.) University.

The former Packer is hitting .292 with four doubles, nine home runs and 36 runs batted in for the 30-5 Grizzlies.

Daniels also hit home runs that ended both ends of a doubleheader sweep of Indiana Tech on March 10.

Those homers ended run-rule victories.

• Former Packer Mark Breedlove is 4-4 playing singles and 1-0 playing doubles for the Bellhaven University tennis team.

JT Whatley is hitting .317 with seven doubles, a triple, five home runs and a team-leading 31 runs batted in for the 21-15 Thomas University baseball team.

Gavin Steptoe, Whatley’s former Colquitt County teammate, is 2-0 on the mound for the Night Hawks, with a 4.29 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 21 innings.

Opponents are hitting just .234 against the junior left-hander.