Fifteen athletes from Aberdare Comets Diving Club where selected to represent Wales as part of a National Novice diving team at the inaugural Celtic Novice Cup in Bangor, North Wales. Twenty athletes selected from 3 clubs across Wales competed against teams from Ireland and Scotland in the Celtic Tri-Nations style event.

The competitions new and exciting format offered divers multiple opportunities to compete, gain points for their team as well as take individual medals. The conditions require participants to select dives from designated skills categories and compete in four circuit style events across the weekend. Each diver is required to demonstrate Control, Confidence, dive group coverage, entry skills and compete in a 6 skill novice circuit to display the diver's full range of technical abilities.

Event organiser, Swim Wales Diving Consultant and Aberdare Coach Ben Fox said about the event

'It s great that diving in Wales has developed far enough over the last two years to be able to invite international teams to compete in here. The Celtic Novice Cup aims to energise novice diving, providing a focus event for novice divers across each of the countries represented'.

'Aberdare is the only professional diving programme in Wales and we have worked hard with the support of the council lead learn to dive programme at the Aberdare Pool to develop the standards required to perform on a national level so quickly. I'm really happy with how all the Aberdare divers performed under the Welsh banner and hope the experience will help to motivate them further within the sport'.

Ten individual top 3 sports where taken in total across the weekend by Aberdare divers. Scotland took the overall team trophy with 451.00 points, Wales second with 429.00 points and Ireland in third with 426 points.

The Aberdare Comets Diving Club are actively looking for sponsors from the local community to help provide training and competition opportunities for our athletes. If you are interested in supporting ACDC please contact Ben Fox on 07943508496.

Aberdare team divers: Kojo Terrile, Megan Davies, Ewan Purnell, Shaun Baker, Garin Beams, Daniel Cook, Caitlin Thomas, Daniel Hourihan, Jamie Richards, Callum Williams, Kiera Pritchard, James Richards, Keiran Williams, Seren Watkins, Ffion Watkins.