MOULTRIE — Two former individual state champions will lead the Colquitt County High diving team into Thursday’s Class AAAAA state championship meet in Atlanta.

Two-time defending boys champion Ryan Helms will go after his third straight title.

Helms appears to have a shot at the state championship record of 557.20 set by Wesleyan’s Webb Worthington in 2005.

The Colquitt County junior scored a 611.50 at the 37th Metro Atlanta Swimming and Diving Championships at the Westminster Schools pool last month. The score broke the pool record by 55 points.

Westminster will again serve as host to the state meet.

Helms also has scored a 610.40 at the Clarke-Oconee Invitational in Athens.

He also is coming off an outstanding All-Star Challenge Meet in Orlando last week in which he won a gold medal on the 1-meter springboard and a silver medal on the 3-meter.

Senior Hannah Moore, who won the title as a freshman, will try to win her second title. She was second as a sophomore and third last year.

The Colquitt County High diving team includes Helms, Owen Blank, Jacob Russell, Henry Norman, Moore, Anna Aguero, Ali Lepech, Ann Perry Blank and sisters Kelsey and Erin Goodman.

Helms, Blank, Russell, Moore, Lepech, Aguero and freshman Kelsey Goodman will compete at the state meet.

Aguero took first place in the Atlanta meet, in which Lepech wa fourth, Blank was fifth and Erin Goodman was ninth.

In Athens, Kelsey Goodman was first, Lepech was second, Aguero was third and Moor was fourth.

Lepech was second at the state meet last year. Aguero was third in 2005 and fourth last year.