{"id":1776,"date":"2019-07-02T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unisport.wpenginepowered.com\/diving-and-water-polo-kick-off-napoli2019\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:09:15","slug":"diving-and-water-polo-kick-off-napoli2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/diving-and-water-polo-kick-off-napoli2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving and Water Polo kick off #Napoli2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Diving &#8211;<\/strong> On a beautiful 33-degree day four divers kicked off their 2019 Napoli Summer Universaide competition at Mostra d&#8217;Oltremare in Naples.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s 10m platform preliminary The University of Adelaide science student <strong>Nikita Hains<\/strong> qualified for the final in 5th with a total of 269.90 points and Purdue University health student <strong>Emily Meany<\/strong> just missed the final, coming in 13th with a total of 232.25 points. <strong>Olivia O\u2019Rourke<\/strong> (University of Technology Sydney) finished 20th with a total of 176.20 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe girls on the platform did really well especially with Nikita through to the finals,\u201d diving coach Matthew Helm said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEm just narrowly missed, she had some really good tops on everything, but just missed the entry on a couple of those, which is a little bit disappointing particularly finishing 13th. But she\u2019s got a two more events to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Technology Sydney health student <strong>Nicholas Jeffree<\/strong> finished 25th in the men\u2019s 1m springboard preliminary with a total score of 246.15.<\/p>\n<p>The final of the 10m platform will take place on Thursday 4 July at 13:00 (CEST \/ 9:00 AEST). Nicholas Jeffree is back in action tomorrow with the 3m springboard at 10:00 (CEST \/ 18:00 AEST)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water Polo<\/strong> \u2013 The Uniroos women opened their Universiade campaign with a strong 15-4 win over China in their opening match in Casoria. They take on Russia in their second match on Friday 5 July at 17:30 (CEST \/ 1:30 AEST). The Uniroos men dropped their opening match against Croatia 17-9, but are back in the water on Thursday 4 July against Japan at 17:30 (CEST \/ 1:30 AEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diving &#8211; On a beautiful 33-degree day four divers kicked off their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,155,1],"unis_sport_category":[141],"unis_league_category":[],"unis_university_category":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leagues","category-uniroos","category-unisport-news","unis_sport_category-water-polo"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"unis_sport_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unis_sport_category?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"unis_league_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unis_league_category?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"unis_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unisport.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unis_university_category?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}