Flipnrip Teams


View All Teams		 USA Junior Team 2006 
Team Home

The USA Junior Team 2006 was selected at the 2006 USD JO Nationals. The team competed at the 2006 16th FINA Junior World Meet, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2006 16th FINA Junior World Meet in Malaysia

With the exception of Tori and Haley Ishimatsu, the US Team all met and left San Francisco together on August 17 for Kuala Lumpur. They flew through Tokyo Narita airport, connected to another flight in Singapore for Kuala Lumpur arriving on August 19.. Tori and Haley met the team in Kuala Lumpur after a club trip to China.

On the second day of competition, as reported by the FINA Junior Word Website major problem struck several competing divers:

Participating US Athletes:
Kristian Ipsen (1st 1m B Finals), (3rd 3m B Finals), (16th Platform Prelims)
Nick McCrory (17th 1m B Prelims), (2nd 3m B Finals) (10th B Plt Finals)
Ashley Faure (7th 1m B Finals)
Haley Ishimatsu (9th B Platform Finals)
Thea Vock (13th 1m B Prelims), (12th 3m B Finals)
Katrina Young (28th 3m Prelims), (12 B Platform Finals)
Linus Altman-Kurosaki (15th A Platform Prelims) (A 3M Prelims)
Matt Cooper (14th 1M Prelims) (9th A 3m Finals)
Chris Hill (16th 1m Prelims)
J.J. Kinzbach (4th Platform A Finals)
Bianca Alvarez (6th 1m A Finals)
Kara Cook (24th Platform Prelims)
Meg Hostage (8th Platform Prelims)
Tory Ishimatsu (13th 1m B Prelims)
Abby Johnston (18th 3m A Prelims)
Casey Matthews (7th 3m Finals)
Team Information
United States