A last-minute whim for Katie Kimball and Chandler Marshall turned out to be a season-changing coup for the Lewis-Palmer swimming and diving team.

“We both were talking about it the day before tryouts and decided we should do it,” Kimball said. “We knew they were looking for divers, and we thought we would give it a shot.”

Kimball and Marshall didn’t have any formal experience with diving but leaned on 13 years of gymnastics for the basics.

Marshall noted that several of her diving peers used to be gymnasts and some continue to tumble. While athleticism is required for both, there are certainly significant differences.

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