The Gophers' Sarah Bacon, a sixth-year senior, won the 3-meter diving title for the second year in a row on Friday night in the NCAA swimming and diving meet in Atlanta.
Needing a score of 65.95 on her final dive to finish first, she got a 78.00 for a 409.25 total. Indiana's Kristen Hayden finished second (397.20).
Bacon, and Indianapolis native, went into the finals as the top seed after taking first in the preliminaries with her total of 386.25. She finished with two monster scores, a 79.05 on her fifth dive and a 73.50 on her sixth.
She now has five national titles in all, including three in 1-meter diving (2018, '19 and '21). She was the runner-up in 1-meter on Thursday for the second time (2017).
Stanford freshman Regan Smith of Lakeville finished third in the 100-yard backstroke (49.96 seconds). Katharine Berkhoff of North Carolina State won the race (48.74), breaking Smith's American record of 49.16 set last year. Isabelle Stadden of Blaine, a sophomore at Cal, finished seventh.
Going long in discus
The Gophers' Shelby Frank, a sophomore from Grand Forks, N.D., won the women's discus in the Black & Gold Invitational in Orlando, Fla., with a throw of 185 feet, 3 inches — that's the second longest in program history.
Her throw was almost 12 feet farther than the runner-up.
