Have you ever wondered why your diving board is making soooooo much noise? It can be like fingernails on a chalkboard, or worse. Most of the time the annoying noise can be fixed easily because it usually comes from one of two places - the hinges or the fulcrum.

• Noisy Diving Boards - How to Find and Fix the Problem
• Replace Duarfirm Hinge Pins, Nyliners and O Rings

In the wake of High School All American selection, questions have popped up regarding honorable mention. Although the specifics and dates may not be exact, here is what happened to the honorable mention award and where the number 130 came from.

From about 1990 to 2002, High School All-American Honorable mention was an award that was given those divers who placed 71-100 when ranked after all submitted applications and tapes were reviewed. The top 70 divers received All-American status. Now that was for the public schools. At the same time, the independent schools had 20 All-Americans and 10 honorable mentions. After 2002, the honorable mention designation was removed, and all 100 divers - plus 30 for the independent schools, were named All-American. Shortly after that, the public and independent school groups were combined. This created the number of divers used today … 130.

NISCA has posted the list of divers that were selected as High School All-Americans, to find out if you made the list follow the links below. If you were not selected, and are in grades 9-11, here are some suggestions that might help you next year when high school season rolls around again.

• Choosing High School All-Americans in Diving
• Diving Video - Best Practices
• Why Did My All-American Application Get Rejected?
• NISCA High School All-Americans - Boys
• NISCA High School All-Americans - Girls

After three days of reviewing footage of the top high school divers in the nation, the NISCA High School All American Selection Committee has chosen 130 girl and boy divers to receive All American awards. Representing the top 1% of all high school divers competing in the nation, each of these diver receives this prestigious award - an award that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.

The divers were chosen based on scores given by the committee while reviewing over 500 DVD's from eligible divers. This consistent scoring created an unbiased ranking of each of the divers. The full list of the award winners will be available on the NISCA Website within the next few days.

Along with choosing these All Americans', the committee has also chosen a high school national champion based on the scores from the competition footage. The boy's title was won by Kristian Ipsen, competing for De La Salle High School in Compton, Calif. The girl's title was won by Victoria Lamp, competing for Bearder High School in Knoxville, Tenn.