Despite the flu and injuries, the diving team likes its chances for the SCC Diving Championships this weekend at El Camino College.

Freshman diver Cody Anderson believes that the men’s and women’s diving teams will perform well as long as the team can brush off injuries and some cases of the flu.

“Either we’re sick or injured,” he said. “Some kind of bug just spread throughout the team. So that’s really tough.”

The SCC Diving Championships take place all day Friday April 11 and Saturday April 12 and despite the diving team’s barrage of setbacks, diving coach Glen Myer is confident in the team’s abilities.

“I think our chances are very good,” he said. “We have a lot of talent on our team that can be a real threat for our opponents.”

Myer pointed out various divers on the team, among them being freshman Baije Logova, who he said has had some great practices and could do very well.

“We’ll do well. We’re not focused or intimidated,” said Logova. “We’re having fun. It’s important to win it but we also have to enjoy ourselves. I mean we’ve made it this far.”

However she pointed out that she “tweaked” her shoulder, suffering a minor injury, which has been a problem for the divers lately.

“We’re just trying to stay healthy,” she said.

Freshman Joseph Owens noted that the majority of the team has been sick the past week and hopes the team can get that out of it system.

“I think our chances are pretty good,” he said. “We have a lot of good divers on the men’s and women’s side. We’re going to score high.”

Anderson added, “We have a bunch of great divers. There aren’t whole lot of weaknesses with our team but just like (Owens) said a lot of us have been sick for the past few days so we have to get over those setbacks.”