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by Crystal Apilado Staff Writer University of La Verne dive team members competed for spots at the the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Diving preliminaries, which...

Justin Borba, graduate assistant for the swimming and diving teams at the University of La Verne, resigned Jan. 11 after an incident that occurred during one of the team's tournaments.

Justin Borba remembers his days on the UC Santa Cruz diving team. His coach left after his first season, so Borba shouldered the difficult task of both diving and coaching the following year.

Several impressive individual performances, including two school records, led the University of La Verne men's and women's swim teams through their first taste of Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) competition at Saturday's Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.

Swim meets are commonly decided by the team that performs better in the two diving events. The University of La Verne swim teams gave themselves a chance to contend for the conference championships by continuing a season-long trend of surprising success.

The smell of chlorine in the air. The sun glistening off the new pool. The sweetness of setting records. It almost makes one want to get their feet wet. These are all of what the University La Verne men's and women's swimming and diving teams experienced in last Saturday's meet at Cal State Northridge.