Serpico '12 Springs to Success on the Women's Diving Team

BY ALIX PEABODY,
PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009 for The Dartmouth

Although she is a recent addition to the Dartmouth women's diving team, Erica Serpico ?12 has already started to make a name for herself around the Ivy League. In Dartmouth's 11 meets so far this season, Serpico has five first-place finishes in the one-meter event and six in the three-meter event.

Serpico, who hails from Moorsetown, N.J., said that her diving career evolved from a young love of gymnastics. Serpico began diving on a summer club team when she was nine years old.

“It was really a transition from gymnastics,” she said. “I did summer club diving from ages nine to 15, when I moved up to the high school varsity level.”

In high school, Serpico was a four-year letterwinner in diving. She was named second-team All-State in New Jersey, and was a three-time All American. She was runner-up in last year's New Jersey state diving championship, finishing 58 points behind three-time state champion Sarah Andrekovich, who now dives for the University of Virginia.

Serpico proved herself as one of the top divers for Dartmouth in her first collegiate meet. She placed second in the one-meter event and fifth in the three-meter in a tri-meet against Cornell and Harvard.

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