Young Long Beach diver medals in Junior Pan Am Games

Long Beach

Long Beach’s ain Evelyn Wang won a bronze medal successful the archetypal Junior Pan American Games successful the 1-meter springboard diving lawsuit past Sunday.

Wang trains with the McCormick Divers and manager Maggie Zhou astatine the Martin Luther King Junior Pool. She is simply a sixth grader astatine Dana Middle School successful Arcadia.

Main events successful the Junior Pan American Games volition beryllium Nov. 25-Dec. 5 successful Cali, Colombia. But immoderate sports, including diving, were astatine alternate sites — diving took spot successful Tucson, Ariz. That allowed the young athletes to vie without traveling internationally.

Wang qualified for the Pan Am Games by winning a metallic medal astatine the USA Diving Junior National Championships this summer.