Moses parts the waters on way to silver (From Bucks Free Press)

Moses parts the waters on way to silver

11:20am Wednesday 1st February 2012 in Sport By Alan Feldberg

AFTER more than six months behind closed doors perfecting her trade, Emily Moses returned to competition at the weekend and promptly won double silver at the British National Cup.

The diving hopeful from Wycombe joined up with Georgia Ward to take synchronised silver in the British Junior and ASA Junior 3m events.

Moses and Ward also finished fifth in the senior category while Moses missed out on the final of the individual 3m event by just one place.

The performance, alongside and against divers who will be competing at London 2012, follows an upward trend for Moses that has continued almost unabated since she first started diving three years ago.

In that time she’s moved onwards and upwards and now, at the age of 15, has been selected as a member of the Junior England Talent Development Squad.

It’s not come easy though. The Holmer Green pupil is still leaving home at 5.45am on Saturday and 6.45am on Sunday to train with the country’s elite in Crystal Palace, and is having to fit her GCSE studies around evening sessions three week days out of five too.

She’ll have a good idea if her committment is paying off in April at the British Junior Elites, when the team for the Junior European Championships will be selected.

l Emily Moses is part of the exhibition ‘My Sporting Life’ at Wycombe Museum.