Gregory named to All-USA Today team as he prepares for Junior Nationals

Published 12:07 pm Monday, July 22, 2024

MOULTRIE — While preparing to compete in USA Diving’s Junior National Championships, Tuck Gregory learned he has been honored as a member of the All-USA Today High School Sports Association Boys Diving Team.

The members of the All-USA team are nominees for the National Boys Diver of the Year Award that will be announced in August.

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Gregory, a rising senior at Colquitt County High School, was honored primarily on the basis of his Georgia High School Association state championship earned in February at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta.

Gregory scored a 738.50 to win the title with his Colquitt County High and Moss Farms Diving teammate Bo Bridges placing second.

Brother Trip Gregory was third at the state meet.

Tuck also was second in the 53rd annual Metro Atlanta Diving Invitational in January, also held at Westminster.

He finished second in the state meet in 2023 and took the bronze medal in 2022.

He is one of three Georgia high school divers named to the All-USA Today team, joining Aiden Sadler of North Oconee and RJ Snyder of Woodward Academy.

Tuck is one of 17 Moss Farms divers who have qualified to compete at Junior Nationals, which will run July 29-August 7 at the Milan Park Aquatic Center in Morgantown, W.Va.

He will compete on the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards and on platform in 16-18 boys at Junior Nationals.

Also on Moss Farms Diving’s Junior Nationals team is seven-time national champion ElliReese Niday, who will compete on all three boards in the 12-13 age group in Morgantown.

A member of USA Diving’s High Performance Squad, Niday swept both springboards and the platform event at each of the last two Junior Nationals and won on platform as a 9-year-old in 2021.

Other Diving Tigers who have qualified for Junior Nationals are Bridges, Amelia Gregory, Ruby DeMott, Summer Winchester, Ansley Lane, Beck Gregory, Landon Thomas, Steele Weeks, Luke Hutto, Austin Leigh Taylor, Kendall Deloach, John Parker Harrison, Elizabeth Ann Hobby, Jewel Hart and Zechariah Ledl.