<p>So far, so good.</p>
<p>Zach Cooper, competing in the men’s 10-meter platform synchronized diving and 10-meter platform diving at this week’s U.S. Olympic Diving Trials in Indianapolis, still has a shot at competing in the 2016 Summer Games.</p>
<p>Cooper and partner Max Showalter are in third place in 10-meter synchronized following Sunday’s semifinals at the Indiana University Natatorium on the IUPUI campus. The finals are at 7 p.m. Thursday.</p>
<p>Cooper, an 18-year-old Greenwood resident, and Showalter, a Purdue diver, have a cumulative score of 698.46;4 following the preliminaries and semifinals. The team of David Boudia and Steele Johnson are the leaders — and heavy favorites — with a total of 835.56;2.</p>
<p>Ryan Hawkins and Toby Stanely are in third with 710.58;2. The fourth and final of the contending teams, Benjamin Bramley and Maxwell Flory, have a score of 666.00;0.</p>
<p>Thursday’s winning pair will make the U.S. Olympic Team and compete in the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Opening ceremonies are Aug. 5.</p>
<p>Although Boudia and Steele are expected to easily win the synchronized event, Cooper will get another opportunity this week to make the U.S. Olympic Team.</p>
<p>Cooper competes in today’s 10 a.m. preliminaries of 10-meter platform. If he advances, he’ll compete in tonight’s 7 p.m. semifinals.</p>
<p>The 10-meter platform finals are 6:40 p.m. Sunday. The top two divers from that event make the U.S. team.</p>
<h4><strong>Clute earns All-American honors</strong></h4>
<p>Indiana University senior Sydney Clute earned first-team All-American honors following a fourth-place finish in women’s pole vault at the recent NCAA Division I Outdoor National Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.</p>
<p>A 2012 Center Grove High School graduate, Clute secured her best-ever finish at the national championships with a vault of 4.30 meters.</p>
<p>Her effort capped a remarkable season during which she won the Big Ten Outdoor championship at Lincoln, Nebraska, where she set school, facility and Big Ten records.</p>
<p>Clute’s previous best outdoors finish at nationals was eighth in 2014. She redshirted last year and did not compete.</p>
<h4><strong>Smeathers lifts South Team</strong></h4>
<p>Madison Smeathers, a 2016 Center Grove graduate, helped the South Team win the recent North/South All-Star Tennis Cup championship at Marian University.</p>
<p>Smeathers played doubles for the Trojans but competed in singles in the All-Star tournament. She was one of five members of the South team to win all three of their matches.</p>
<p>All-Star tennis skills notwithstanding, Smeathers will continue her athletic career as a scholarship volleyball player at Ohio State University.</p>
<p>Smeathers was the Daily Journal’s 2015 Johnson County Volleyball Player of the Year.</p>
<h4><strong>Angling for the Hall</strong></h4>
<p>Larry Angle, former head basketball coach at Indian Creek High School, has been selected to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Board of Directors.</p>
<p>A longtime varsity coach who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010, Angle accrued 375 wins in a career that spanned stops at Rusvhille, Carmel, Greenfield-Central and Indian Creek.</p>
<p>He retired from coaching after the 2004 season at Indian Creek.</p>
<h4><strong>FC packs ’em in</strong></h4>
<p>With approximately 1,000 students, Franklin College isn’t on the high end of NCAA Division III enrollment.</p>
<p>But the school is in on the high end of attendance for athletics events.</p>
<p>Six of Franklin’s varsity teams were among the national Division III home attendance leaders for the 2015-16 school year.</p>
<p>Leading the way was women’s basketball, which ranked seventh with an average attendance of 691 fans. The Grizzlies were 9-1 in 10 home games.</p>
<p>Next was women’s soccer, which ranked ninth nationally with an average of 335. Franklin was 7-1 in eight home matches.</p>
<p>Next was volleyball, which ranked 10th with an average of 434. The Grizzlies were 5-2 at home.</p>
<p>Franklin’s men’s soccer team ranked 20th nationally with an average of 367 fans. Football ranked 22nd with an attendance average of 3,245, followed by men’s basketball, which ranked 33rd with a home average of 740.</p>
