Gator Locker Room
Gator Ticket Office

2009 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Christopher Jones

Diving

CLASS
FR
Hometown
Palm City, Fla. (South Fork)
Experience
School

2012 SEC Academic Honor Roll Selection

2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll Selection

 

Career High Dives

One-meter: 336.00             (2011 Bulldog Invitational)
Three-meter:
354.45         (Tennessee, 1/28/12)
Platform:
321.4                   (2011 Bulldog Invitational)

 

At Florida

2011-12: Named to the 212 SEC Academic Honor Roll…Represented the Gators at the 2012 SEC Championships, finishing as the highest finisher off the one-meter boards with a 310.20, 11th-place effort, and 20th off both the three-meter boards (310.50) and platform (280.70)…Had a career-high dive off the three-meter springboard against Tennessee, recording a 345.45 score to finish third…Took second in three-meter competition (335.55) to help lift the Gators over Auburn…Finished second off the one-meter springboard with a 333.08 mark against FAU…Collected two top-five finishes at the Georgia Invitational, with a second-place effort off the three-meter boards and fifth-place finish off the one-meter boards…Against Georgia, took fourth in both the one- (316.73) and three-meter (339.67) competition…Opened the season with a fourth-place effort off the one-meter boards at the All-Florida Invitational.

 

2010-11: Named to the 2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll…Competed on the platform at the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships, taking 18th with a 261.10 prelim score…Scored 283.40 on the platform at the SEC Diving Championships, for 14th place. Took 23rd on both the one-meter (249.00) and three-meter (276.80) boards at the conference championships…Finished second on the platform with a career-best 321.40, and fourth on the one-meter boards (323.93) at the Last Chance Meet…Took fourth in three-meter competition in the win over Indian River State College (296.17)…Finished seventh and eighth in the one-meter and three-meter competition, respectively, against Georgia Tech…Made his 2010-11 debut at the Tennessee Diving Invitational, finishing 12th in platform competition…Appeared in eight meets on the year for the Gators.

 

Prior to Florida: Graduated from the International Baccalaureate program of South Fork High School in 2009…Was in National Honor Society…In addition to diving, was a varsity track and field athlete…Was in Eagle Scouts…Coached at South Fork by Dave Suba.

 

Club: Member of the Indian River Divers, coached by Dave Suba.

 

  • University of Florida
  • NCAA
  • Sun Sports / Fox Sports Florida
  • IMG
  • SEC on ESPN

Copyright © 1998 - 2013 University Athletic Assoc., Inc., Sun Sports & IMG College. All Rights Reserved.