Sports Star Athlete - Cassidy Krug
'It feels good to win,' Krug said. 'I really wanted to win this year. It was hard, though, because I was the one everyone was going after.'
For her effort, Krug is this week's Tribune-Review/Fox 53 Sportstar. She will receive a plaque from the Pittsburgh Trophy Co. and was featured on last night's Fox 53's 10 o'clock news. Toyota will present Montour with $100.
For her performance at the WPIAL championships she qualified for the PIAA Class AAA diving championships on March 8 at Penn State's McCoy Natatorium.
Krug finished fourth in the WPIAL and third in the PIAA meets last year. She also qualified for junior championships last summer.
Her mother, Doe, coaches the divers at Montour and is an assistant with the Pitt Aquatic Club. Cassidy Krug doesn't mind having her parents as coaches. She said both know diving really well and have helped her become one of the top divers in the WPIAL.
'I wasn't sure how she would handle it,' Doe Krug said. 'It was definitely different for her this year because she was the one everyone was shooting for. But she was calm throughout. She hit her dives even though she had a bad warmup. Her takeoff wasn't right and she didn't have good balance.'
'I like both sports,' Krug said. 'It is hard to decide if I like one better than the other one because each has good and bad points.'
