Matt Flynn Named All American

Recent Holliston High School graduate Matt Flynn was recently named a High School All American Diver by the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association (NISCA).  This national honor ends a great 4 year career at HHS which saw Matt join the team as a freshman with no experience and end his career this year as the HHS School Record holder in both 6 and 11 dive meets, Tri-Valley League Champion, two-time State Sectional champion (breaking the meet record this year), and runner up in the State Championship meet, losing only to Massachusetts State Record setter Shaun O’Brien of Concord Carlisle HS.

All Americans are selected from qualifying divers from across the country.  Divers who have competed in 11-dive High school meets with a minimum qualifying score of 375 points are eligible for consideration – Matt had a qualifying score of 525 points.  Eligible divers are required to send videos of their dives from the qualifying meet.  Over several days, NISCA and USA Diving officials watch all DVDs of the divers, and judge each performance as if at a live meet.  The top 130 divers scores are then awarded All-American honors – representing less than 1% of all high school divers.

The opportunity that the HHS Athletic program provides kids like Matt and countless others in many sports should be applauded.  Matt is one of only a handful of HHS All Americans.  The two most recent All Americans from HHS include Emiline Berg in the Track and Field Shot Put event (last year) and Kim Thalman in 1998 in the mile and 2 mile track events.”