A South Surrey senior who helped start a local diving club has come home with two medals after competing in the World Aquatic Championships in Singapore last month.

Margaret Connors, who started White Rock Divers with Bev Boys in the 1990s, used to dive when she was younger but didn't really think about competing in it again until fairly recently.

Now 71, Connors competed in the Masters division in Singapore. She trains with White Rock Divers Masters coach Teri York, an Olympian whom Connors dove with for 10 years when she was eight to 18 years old.

Despite injuring her arm prior to the world competition, Connors still travelled and gave it her all, winning the bronze in the 1 metre competition, and a silver for her platform performance, where dives are taken from 5- and 7.5-metre platf

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