Windsor’s Annable saves her best for last to secure elusive state title ...Saudi Arabia

Windsor girls swimming and diving head coach Erin Sloan admitted to feeling just a tad nervous as talented senior diver Reagan Annable approached the final few dives of her high school career Thursday.

She had trailed Golden senior Myranda MacMillan all morning and early afternoon in the race for the Class 4A one-meter diving title at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.

But Annable knew something that dozens upon dozens of onlookers didn’t know.

She had an ace up her sleeve.

More accurately, she had an inward double, and some other challenging dives, up her sleeve.

She pulled off the high-scoring inward double to help swing the momentum and, ultimately, allow her to rack up the necessary points to finally top the championship podium.

Annable erased a nearly two-dozen-point deficit against MacMillan. And, after the ninth of 11 dives, she took the lead for good, claiming the state title with an all-classification Colorado state meet record score of 588.2 points.

“I truly have had the most amazing four years of high school diving, and to finish it off with the state title that I worked so hard to get, I was elated,” said Annable, whose previous personal record was 526. “I felt every emotion. And Ryan (Palmer, Windsor’s diving coach), he and I had worked so hard to get me to this point. My family was cheering. It was the best feeling ever.”

Entering Thursday’s competition, Annable had placed second at state behind Niwot graduate Izzy Fay each of the two previous years.

Her game-changing inward double was the first time she had completed that dive since the state meet a year ago.

Though Palmer admitted he didn’t fully expect Annable to be staring at that much of a deficit for most of the competition, he was confident she had a sound game plan, and she was fully capable of executing it to perfection.

“I knew she was going to need to come in and earn it, but at one point, she was down by about 22 points,” Palmer said. “I did not expect that to happen. But watching Myranda dive (Thursday), she was diving lights-out. In diving, 22 points is not a huge margin, but it’s not a small one, either. (Annable) needed to turn up the heat on those last three dives, and that’s what she went out and did.”

Sloan was following the meet early Thursday via online live updates, while Palmer handled coaching Annable at the venue.

Though Sloan was also confident Annable and Palmer knew exactly what they were doing, that didn’t keep her for feeling a tad bit anxious, as Annable stared at that sizable deficit.

“When Reagan sets her mind to something, she executes it with everything within her ability,” Sloan said. “If she had zero doubts, I had zero doubts in her ability to go out there and do what needed to be done. There was one point in time when I checked the results and thought, ‘Oooohhh… it’s getting (nerve-racking).’ But then I remembered that Reagan has a much stronger back half of her dive list, and that’s where her power really pulls forward.”

After being just narrowly denied a state title each of the past two years, Annable insisted all season that even though she hoped to ascend to the top of that podium this winter, she was going to be happy with wherever she landed at season’s end, provided she put forth her best effort.

Her mindset didn’t waver in midst of competition Thursday, as MacMillan provided the stiffest competition possible.

“I honestly was pretty nervous until I took the lead,” Annable said. “If I hadn’t won, I would have been sad, yes. But, I would have been so proud of Myranda. She and I have known each other for a while. We’ve seen each other at club diving meets. She’s absolutely very talented. And, I knew that going in.”

MacMillan’s final score of 574.6 would have also been enough to top the previous state record of 570.25, set by Ponderosa’s Sarah Law in 1997.

“She is one of the most deserving athletes that I have ever met,” Sloan said of Annable. “She is so hard-working, and she has put so much effort into everything she has done. There honestly aren’t enough words to describe how proud I am of her.”

As jaw-dropping as Annable’s performance was, Palmer wasn’t really caught off guard by it.

Palmer said, throughout his four years coaching her, Annable has displayed a knack for rising to, and beyond, the level of her competition. The more she is pushed by her fellow competitors, the better she is.

“That’s something I’ve observed over the last four years: when she comes to meets and there’s a lot of competition there, those are the meets where she scores a lot higher,” Palmer said. “It’s almost like a switch that flips. … I really don’t think words can describe how proud I am of her and what that moment (Thursday) meant to us both.”

The fact that Annable is so adept at elevating her game to match and surpass the competitors around her bodes well for her next venture.

In just a handful of months, she will pack her bags for Laramie where she will dive at the Division I level for the University of Wyoming.

As promising as her future clearly is, Annable said she couldn’t have asked for a more ideal end to her high school diving career.

“Obviously, I know no team will ever measure up to my high school team, but I’m so excited to meet my new teammates and have a new journey ahead of me,” Annable said. “Through this season, I rediscovered my love for diving again, which was just amazing. Now, I get to have a really good mindset going into college, and I’m so excited to train in college.”

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