The best Division I state meet for central Ohio girls divers in a decade was the talk of Branin Natatorium in Canton on Feb. 25, but the favorite and eventual champion did her best to compartmentalize and block out any distractions. “All of us were just thinking one at a time and whatever happens, move on,” New Albany freshman Sammy Petroff said. “I expected the top three to be really close. … I didn’t think about being the favorite. I just thought about my dives and not how the others were doing and not how the scoring went.” On a day that saw the top five finishers and six of the top seven come from central Ohio, Petroff stood alone at the top, leading virtually from start to finish and...
