Success continues for Sask. diver representing Canada on national stage

WATCH: Success continues for Regina raised diver Lila Stewart, who is representing Canada on the national stage. Damian Smith reports.

Success continues for Regina-raised diver Lila Stewart, who is representing Canada on the national stage.

The 16-year-old captured a silver medal in the one metre springboard, and gold in the three-metre competition at the international diving meet in Germany last month.

It was the second year in a row she participated in Dresden - attempting to follow up her success from last spring, when she won two gold medals.

“I think I had a little bit of pressure on myself going into this year as well, knowing I had performed very well the year before,” Stewart said. “Going in, I was very nervous, but I was also very confident in myself going in because I knew my training had been going well and I’ve been working really hard that if I just stuck to my training and stayed focused, that everything would work out in competition.”

Stewart is used to that pressure, however. She has been competing since she was six years old and knows how to channel the nerves and adrenaline into positive energy.

“The hardest part for me is getting through those lower days,” she said. “Especially in competition, it comes down to that one dive, those two seconds you have in front of everyone, that you’ve worked for months and years just for.”

Competing at the Lawson Aquatic Centre with the Regina Diving Club growing up, Stewart made the move to Montreal to pursue her diving career more seriously. That’s where she’s spent her last few years, under national coaching

“She’s super hard working, she’s really, really wonderful,” said Devon Butters, Stewart’s coach. “She’s the kind of person that will come in and show up to every simple exercise, every complicated exercise. She’s going to give it the same amount of intensity, which is always great. ”

Stewart is now off to Colombia, where she’s hoping to make another splash on the world stage.