HS Swimming: Pottsville’s Klinger excels at AAU Diving Nationals

Pottsville junior Adam Klinger poses with his ninth-place medal he won at the AAU Red-White-Blue Diving National Championships held May 24-26 in Huntersville, North Carolina (Submitted photo).

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Adam Klinger has taken his diving success to the national level.

The Pottsville High junior placed ninth in the 1-meter event and 14th in the 3-meter competition at the 2025 AAU Red-White-Blue Diving National Championships held May 24-26 at the Huntersville Aquatic Center. The event was hosted by the Carolina Diving Academy.

Klinger competed in the 16-18-year-old age group. He qualified for the national event after a standout performance at the AAU Diving Regional Qualifier in New London, Connecticut, in March.

Klinger dominated the local diving scene this past winter, breaking both the Pottsville school and Ned Hampford Natatorium records in the six-dive competition and re-writing the school record in the 11-dive event. He won the inaugural Schuylkill League Diving Invitational held in January at Blue Mountain, repeated as Schuylkill League boys’ diving champion and captured his first District 11 Class AA crown.

Klinger then became Pottsville’s first-ever state diving medalist when he placed third in Class AA at the PIAA Diving Championships held March 13 at Bucknell University’s Kinney Natatorium.