ECC Diver is Tops

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Dave Thorpe
on April 23, 2009 10:22 PM | | Comments (0) |
David Austin of the El Camino men's swim team became the school's first state champion in diving on Thursday since his coach, Laurie Dawdy, accomplished the feat in 1995. Austin became the state champion in 3-meter diving with a school and state-meet record 287.80 points in the California Community College State Swimming and Diving Championships at Belmont Plaza pool in Long Beach. 
His El Camino teammate, Pedro Quinones, also was in the medals with an eighth-place finish (212.60 points).  Both Austin and Quinones earn All-American honors by virtue of finishing in the top eight in California.

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Tony Ciniglio is an 11-year veteran at the Daily Breeze and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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