What's amazing is that Ashley has only been diving for two years. It usually takes a lot longer to develop a national champion. And she was diving against 14- and 15-year-olds at the AAU Nationals.

Ashley is the first national diving champion from San Diego County since Greg Louganis in 1976,

We're at the infantile stage of developing ourselves mentally, which takes longer than it does to develop physically.

It usually to takes three or four years to really look back on a draft.

This did take a lot longer than what we had anticipated, ... We never really found that common ground. Usually, you find that common ground at some point the first couple weeks. We didn't really find anything that we agreed upon for quite some time. That created the long holdout.

The owners can usually tell the difference because it's so much easier to ride.