The 18-year-old's exclusion was expected as the diver has failed to progress despite being in the national elite squad for several years.
The former Asian Junior bronze medallist was given the ultimatum to perform at the World Championships in Barcelona in July but she failed miserably, finishing 30th in the 10m platform.
The Olympian is best known for winning the platform synchro gold medal with Pandelela Rinong at the 2011 Indonesia Sea Games, where Malaysia won seven of eight titles.
ASUM, which is using the Sea Games as a platform to expose some juniors, has picked 16-year-old Loh Zhiayi and 14-year-old Nur Dhabitah Sabri to complement its 12-member full-strength squad.
Zhiayi, a silver medallist at last month's Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, is a rising platform diver while Nur Dhabitah bagged several titles at last year's Southeast Asian meet in Singapore.
ASUM had initially wanted to pick a bigger squad but the hosts have limited each team to only 12 divers - six men and six women.
"We have also included our best divers with Pandelela, Leong Mun Yee, Cheong Jun Hoong and Wendy Ng all in the list.
Zhiayi and Nur Dhabitah are being groomed for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro," said ASUM secretary Edwin Chong yesterday.
The men's squad will comprise only five divers -- Ooi Tze Liang, Muhd Amsyar Azman, Chew Yi Wei, Danial Sabri and Muhd Nazreen Abdullah -- following the retirements of Yeoh Ken Nee, Bryan Nickson Lomas and Huang Qiang.
Daniel, Nazreen, Zhiayi and Dhabitah will compete in the Asian Diving Cup in Singapore this weekend.
Meanwhile, Malaysia will host one leg of the Diving Grand Prix next year if FINA, the world body for the sport, agrees to ASUM's suggestion to organise it next October.
FINA invited ASUM to organise the competition this year but it was unable to accept as the end-job of the recent upgrading work on the platform at the centre had a slight defect.
"We will discuss with the organisers during the weekend's Asia Diving Cup," Edwin added.
The last time Malaysia hosted a major FINA event was the World Junior Championships seven years ago in Bukit Jalil. By Ajitpal Singh
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