The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Edited by Will Shortz
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CANTON >> The process was about the same for Angus Williams on Feb. 25 during the Division II boys state diving meet, even in culmination.
Before his turn at No. 18 came for each round, the affable Hawken senior emerged from the water, watched video of his prior dive and then toyed with his phone and toweled off as he waited to go again.
In Round 11, with the moment well in hand, the process continued.
He took a deep breath, nodded in affirmation to the officials on both sides of the diving well — and with a back 1 somersault 2 1/2 twist free, Williams dove into history.
Last year’s D-II state runner-up climbed to the pinnacle at Canton McKinley’s Branin Natatorium, earning the D-II state title in his final high school meet with a score of 483.00.
Williams is the sixth boys diver from a News-Herald coverage area school to capture a state championship, joining Euclid’s Scott Harmon (1979), Mayfield’s Joe Cacolici (1993, 1994 and 1995), University’s Thatcher Carr (1998), Chagrin Falls’ Jamie Engl-hardt (2010) and US’ Noah Sterling (2014).
Even after taking the official state-champion picture for the OHSAA, Williams noted it still didn’t feel real.
“No, not really,” the Boston College recruit said. “It’s surreal. It just feels incredible. I’ve been working with these guys for years and diving with these guys for years. It’s just amazing to just work with them and compete against them and win. It’s great.
“I’ve been working really hard, especially these last three years of high school, whether it was with Rich Karban at (Cleveland State) and (high school coaches Jeff Arnold and Morgan Srail). I’ve been working really hard on consistency, and it’s been showing.” That it has.
After steamrolling his way to the D-II Massillon Perry District with a pool record 513.30, Williams was locked in for his second trip to Canton.
He hit three dives over 46 in preliminaries. That tone started with a 46.00 on his second dive, a back 1 ½ pike, and continued into a meet-best 51.60 on his fourth, an inward 1 ½ pike, and a 49.40 on his fifth.
Williams all but sealed the state title on his ninth dive and first of the final round with a forward 2 ½ pike for a 50.70.
On his last one, the aforementioned back 1 somersault 2 ½ twist free, he closed his eyes for a moment, took a deep breath and, albeit for just a splitsecond, turned reflective all the way to Day 1, knowing what was to come.
“I’m thinking about the first time that I was diving at CSU, when I was diving with Chris Dalman. He first recruited me when I was 10 or something,” Williams said. “I was just thinking about how it felt to just dive off the board and be in the air. And I just wanted to have fun with it.
“It was just something I did for fun and absolutely loved. It was nothing I thought I would be competing with at a really high level. I was at a summer camp, and Chris Dalman saw me do this dive competition off the one-meter board at CSU, and he gave me this card the next week at the summer camp. I dove with him on an age-group team, and I absolutely loved it and fell in love with diving. And it just took off from there, I guess.”
Williams also hoped, with the swimming finals still to come and Hawken hoping to aim for a team title sweep on the boys side in D-II, to jump-start that effort.
Williams’ culmination gave the Hawks a head start toward that aspiration.
“It was a lot of pressure, because this is a very competitive place,” Williams said. “Them and Indian Hill are pretty close together. So I knew I had to try and do something well to help this team get its first championship in a while.”
Beachwood’s Seth Warner became the second Bison boys diver in school history to crack the top four at state, taking a solid fourth with a 417.65. Warner joins Spencer Bystrom (third in 2018, second in 2019) in exclusive company for his school, and his score marked a 66.35 improvement year-over-year in Canton.
“I thought I did good,” Warner said. “I improved my dives from district and scored more points. I hit a good twister, and I improved my 303 and scored more points on that. I just had a good time.”
Kenston’s Clay Foster was sixth with a 395.25, netting a top-eight for the second straight year. Foster finished strong with a 46.20 on an inward 2 somersault tuck.