A number of colleges and universities offer scholarships to men and women who have competitive diving skills.

The DPC logoIn Canada, elite competitive diving is regulated by DPC ( Diving Plongeon Canada ), although the individual provinces also have organizational bodies.

Adult divers who are not competitive at an elite level may compete in masters diving.

Many diving clubs have masters teams in addition to their primary competitive ones, and while some masters dive only for fun and fitness, there are also masters competitions, which range from the local to world championship level.

The CARI Complex is a public recreation facility located on the campus and includes two hockey rinks ( the MacLauchlan Arena as well as a practice rink ) as well as two 25-metre swimming pools ( a shallow recreational wading pool, and an eight-lane competitive pool with diving boards )..

* Pike, a position used on competitive diving

* Free-diving: Any form of diving without breathing apparatus, but often referring to competitive apnea as a sport.

The facility includes a 25-meter, 8-lane competitive pool with two diving boards, a 15-meter lap pool, a waterslide with separate splash area and a leisure pool.

The sports centre contains three swimming pools: a teaching pool, a diving pool ( referred to as the Merlin pool ) and the main pool which is 25 metres long ( half the standard Olympic and competitive pool length ).

Freediving is often strongly associated with competitive breath-hold diving or Competitive Apnea.

The Tigers participate in baseball, basketball ( boys / girls ), bowling, competitive cheer, cross country, football, golf ( boys / girls ), soccer ( boys / girls ), softball, swimming & diving ( boys / girls ), tennis ( boys / girls ), track & field ( boys / girls ), volleyball, and wrestling.

The Eleanor Misener Aquatic Centre, an Olympic size competitive swimming pool that features a depth adjustable hydraulic floor in shallow end ( 0 – 4 feet ), a movable bulkhead, 5m diving tower, two 1m springboards and two 3m springboards, two Tarzan ropes, and a whirlpool.

* A diving technique in swimming ; unlike competitive diving techniques, however, its purpose is to maximize, rather than minimize, splash upon water entry.

She enjoys competitive sailing, snow skiing, scuba diving, and fishing.

Her recreational interests include snow skiing, Alpine competitive skiing, bass fishing, scuba diving, tennis, golf, photography, American Literature, and traveling.

Berry fields competitive teams in 18 intercollegiate sports including men ’ s and women ’ s basketball, soccer, tennis, running, lacrosse, swimming and diving, and golf, as well as men ’ s baseball and women ’ s volleyball, softball and equestrian.

She has recently retired from competitive diving.

Armstand dives — a category found in competitive platform diving — are dives that begin with a handstand.

At the center of West Campus sits the Grumbacher Sport and Fitness Center, a complex featuring the Charles Wolf Gymnasium, a 1, 712-seat arena hosting varsity competition in men's and women's basketball, volleyball and wrestling ; an ten-lane competitive pool with instructional areas and 1-and 3-meter diving boards ; a three-court field house ; locker room facilities ; a climbing wall ; a cafe ; and a fitness area.

Hospital spokesman Tom Bonner said the surgeon was a competitive marathoner and triathlete who loved scuba diving.

The school sponsors interscholastic teams for young men and women in basketball, competitive cheerleading, cross country, gymnastics, soccer, swimming & diving, soccer, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and water polo.

The Maxiflex Model B, the board used in all major competitive diving events, is made out of such aluminum, and is heat treated for a yield strength of 50, 000 psi.

For competitive swimming it is important that the wall at the end of the lane is always touched by both hands ( known as a " Two-Hand Touch ") at the same time due to FINA regulations.

Since the design of such high-end chips nominally takes about five years to complete, to stay competitive a company has to fund at least two of these large design teams to release products at the rate of 2. 5 years per product generation.

The faster this arbitrage takes place, the more competitive a market.

A typical rally course consists of a sequence of relatively short ( up to about ), timed " special stages " where the actual competition takes place, and untimed " transport stages " where the rally cars must be driven under their own power to the next competitive stage within a generous time limit.

The Jersey Shore Basketball League, a competitive summer basketball league, takes place at St. Rose High School every summer.

The story takes place in Los Angeles, California, and centers around competitive inline skating rather than ice skating.

* Finland: lukio ( educational language is Finnish ) or gymnasium ( educational language is Swedish ) takes 2 – 5 years ( most students spend 3 years ), after 9 years of primary school ( peruskoulu in Finnish, grundskola in Swedish ); lukio starts usually in the autumn of the year when the student turns 16 and ends with abitur after passing the matriculation examination ; lukio is not compulsory and its entrance is competitive.

In a stage rally, competitive driving takes place on closed roads or off the public highway.

In a road rally, competitive driving takes place ( in part or whole ) on the open public highway.

The FSA takes into account the international aspects of much financial business and the competitive position of the UK.

Unlike the original, in which the player's objective was to find ways to clear each level of all panels, Wrecking Crew ' 98 takes a more competitive approach, where two opponents are given their own sides to clean up.

The modern fair, dating from the 1930s, takes place each August and includes the crowning of a local school-girl as the Ferry Fair Queen, a procession of floats, pipe bands, and competitive events such as the Boundary Race.

In schools and colleges competitive debate often takes the form of a contest with explicit rules.

Further promotion to the NCO ranks ( Corporal and above ) is competitive and takes into account the individual service record of the Marine.

The club, established in 1896, trains swimmers and takes part in competitive swimming galas against other teams in Nottinghamshire, in the Sports Centre League.

Due to the difficulty of the competitive exam, its preparation often takes a full additional year at the university, for the so-called external agrégation.

Sometimes, such as the contract for the new Joint Strike Fighter, a competitive tendering process takes place, where the decision is made on the merits of the design submitted by the companies involved.

The Cheng-Prusoff factor takes into account the effect of altering agonist concentration and agonist affinity for the receptor on inhibition produced by competitive antagonists.

The characters are: Val ( Ricci ) and Stephie ( Hoffmann ), teens from Ronkonkoma who get lost in the seedy Alphabet City section of the borough and wander into a punk club where they meet Dave ( Diaz ) and Tom ( Casey Affleck ), who have a " package " they need to deliver ; ditsy and awkward Cindy ( Hudson ) who is on a dinner date with the paranoid Jack ( Mohr ); Lucy ( Love ) and her best friend Kevin ( Rudd ) who are struggling with the sexual tension between them ; Kevin's feminist ex girlfriend Ellie ( Garofalo ), who walks in on Kevin and Lucy mid-coitus in a restroom stall ; a dim-witted and flirtatious bartender ( Ben Affleck ); competitive friends Bridget ( Parker ) and Caitlyn ( Featherstone ) who attempt to ditch Bridget's boyfriend Eric ( McCardie ) ( who is also Monica's ex boyfriend ); and the eccentric cab driver ( Chappelle ) who takes them all around town throughout the evening in his disco themed taxi.

Defenders of the track note the challenges to the race teams, since they have to figure out the correct setup for all three turns which are completely different from one another ; defenders of the track's 500-mile distances note the generally greater competitive depth in contrast with the 400 miler at Indianapolis, which takes place on a track very similar to Pocono and whose competitive depth has not been greater at shorter distances.

Usually peduncling takes place among the focal animals ( female, escort, challenging male ) in a competitive group, apparently as an aggressive gesture.

The annual study takes into consideration 65 sports activities in Latvia, calculating their popularity by taking into account the amount of active and passive participants in each sport at both a social and competitive level, as well as tracking the amount of coverage each sport receives in the media and attendance at events.

The classical liberal political culture takes the individual as the basic unit of society and is competitive rather than cooperative.

The Scarsdale Concours ( d ' Elegance ) is an annual Concours d ' Elegance ( competitive auto show ) that takes place in the center of the Town of Scarsdale, New York.