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  Ariel Rittenhouse
Ariel Rittenhouse

Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Santa Cruz, Calif.
High School:
Southern California
Height:
5-3
Position:
Diving
Birthdate:
12/09/1990

02/18/2012

Noles Finish Third

Sophomore Katrina Young captures FSU's first-ever ACC Championship on women's platform with a school record setting performance of 323.05.

02/17/2012

In Third After Three

Seven career best swims, three podium performances and one new school record for the Seminoles on the third day of competition.

02/16/2012

Turning the Tides

Seminole Divers net two second place finishes tonight as the women's team moves up to third after day two of the 2012 ACC Championships.

01/14/2012

Almost Perfect

The women's team picked up two victories today as the men's split both of their meets with ACC opponents in Georgia Tech and North Carolina State.

12/22/2011

That's a Wrap

Senior Mike Neubacher dove to a sixth place finish in the finals of the men's platform event.

Rittenhouse was a member of the 2008 Olympic Team as well as the 2009 and 2007 World Championship Teams

2010-11: Did not compete.

2010: Rittenhouse was a point-scorer at the 2010 NCAA Championships as a freshman with a 12th-place finish on 3-meter (326.85), 21st on platform (236.55) and 24th on 1-meter (272.55)... won the 1-meter at the 2010 Pac-10 Championships (326.25), was third on 3-meter (366.60) and ninth on platform (226.85)... won the bronze medal at the FINA/Li-Ning Diving World Series meet in Veracruz, Mexico on the 3-meter synchronized springboard event with then-teammate Victoria Ishimatsu...represented the U.S. at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, where she finished fifth on 3-meter and sixth on 3-meter synchro events...her fifth-place on 3-meter was the first American top 5 finish at the world championships since 1994.

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Halstrom HS (an online school), competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she finished fourth on 3-meter synchro (with Kelci Bryant) ...won the bronze medal in the 3-meter synchro in 2008 at the U.S. Diving Spring Nationals, the FINA Diving World Cup and FINA Diving World Series events in Mexico and London ...awarded the silver medal at the 2007 Pan Am Games ...was first with Bryant at the 2007 Kaiser Permanente National Championships ... was 10th on 3-meter synchro at the 2007 World Championships and took the silver medal at the 2006 World Cup in 3-meter synchro.

PERSONAL: Born December 9, 1990 ... daughter of Robert and Sharon Rittenhouse...mother, Sharon, attended USC and was a 1964 Olympic silver medalist in the 400m IM... uncle, Michael Finneran, was an Olympic diver in 1976...was a 2011 Marks Scholar Athlete at the University of Southern California...is majoring in Communications.

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