A freshman, Green won the diving competition at the state championships with 435.90 points, edging runner-up Natalie Gray of Parkway North by 2.15 points. Green clinched the event on her last dive, gathering scores from 5.5 to 6.5 on an inward one and one-half summersault from a pike position with a 2.4 degree of difficulty. Green was coming off a record-setting performance at the GAC meet, where she recorded an 11-dive total of 535.9 points, a score that shattered the conference record set in 2006 by roughly 50 points.
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