Brook Mclean helped cap off a successful year for the Kamloops Riptech Diving Club by capturing the Diving Grand Prix Championships in the one-metre and three-metre springboard events at the Irene Macdonald Invitational Diving Meet, held on the weekend in Langley.

The second-place finishes at the Langley meet, combined with first- and second-place finishes at previous competitions, was enough for Mclean to earn the overall titles.

She also finished second and third in the tier one 12-13 age group on the one-metre and three-metre boards.

This all came on the heels of qualifying for junior national ranking at the B.C. Summer Diving Provincial Championships, held in Victoria the previous week.

 In addition to the two Grand Prix trophies, Kamloops divers came away from the weekend competition in Langley with plenty of hardware.

Pyper Turiff finished first in the tier one 8-9 age group three-metre and secured second in the tier one 10-11 age group one-metre.

This, combined with her record-breaking gold-medal performance at the Victoria provincial championships, makes Turiff a force to be reckoned with in the diving world.

Ashley Gerbrandt, in the 14-15 age group, finished third in both Grand Prix events and, with a strong performance in the tier one 14-15 age group, captured first in the one-metre springboard.

Gerbrandt also came away with firsts in both the tier two one-metre and three-metre competitions.

 Asha Atkinson saved her personal best for the Langley meet with fourth-place finishes in the Grand Prix and a second-place showing in the 14-15 age group tier two one-metre and three-metre spring boards.

 Accompanying the divers, as usual, was Riptech Diving Club head coach Charlie Tu, who arrived in Kamloops earlier this year.

Tu, 42, has been with the club since the March after spending five years as the technical consultant with the provincial diving team in Jiangxi, China.

He was also general manager of the Ziao-Lan Children’s Aquatic Centre during that time.

Tu brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge as a member of the Chinese national dive team from 1980 to 1989 and as a coach for five years in the mid-1990s.