Although we’re not DiveDove, we do dabble in diving protection, and as diving can have a significant impression on the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, we cowl NCAA Zone Diving – primarily by way of the lens of how nationwide diving qualifiers might impression the staff factors battles later this month.
2022 NCAA Zone Diving
- Zone A: US Naval Academy / Annapolis, Md.
- Monday, March 7 – Wednesday, March 9
- Stay Outcomes
- Zone B: Georgia Tech Aquatic Heart / Atlanta, Ga.
- Zone C: Canham Natatorium / Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Monday, March 7 – Wednesday, March 9
- Stay Outcomes
- Zone D: Soderholm Aquatic Heart / Madison, Wisc.
- Monday, March 7 – Wednesday, March 9
- Stay Outcomes
- Zone E: Wall Aquatic Heart / Flagstaff, Ariz.
- Monday, March 7 – Wednesday, March 9
- Stay Outcomes
NCAA Zone diving motion formally kicked off on Sunday with the ladies’s 1-meter competitors over at Zone B in Atlanta, with the 4 different zones set to get underway on Monday.
UNC sophomore Aranza Vazquez Montano, who was the runner-up within the occasion finally season’s NCAAs, got here out on prime within the ladies’s 1-meter with a rating of 671.95, buoyed by a large closing dive (Reverse 2 1/2 Somersault Tuck).
A complete of 10 qualifying spots for NCAAs have been on the road on this occasion, as decided by the allocations which you’ll learn extra about right here.
Miami junior Mia Vallee took second to Vazquez Montano with a closing rating of 658.15, and South Carolina’s Brooke Schultz was third at 646.80.
Vallee was eighth on 1-meter at NCAAs final 12 months, whereas Schultz, who transferred over from Arkansas this season, was third at nationals in 2021.
Two extra scorers from final season’s NCAAs, Miami’s Emma Gullstrand and Duke’s Maddison Pullinger, secured invitations by putting fourth and sixth, respectively.
Duke’s first-year standout Margo O’Meara, who received a pair of ACC titles final month, punched her ticket to nationals by putting fifth at 627.85, giving the Blue Devils two divers locked in for NCAAs already.
Zone B had 10 qualifying spots obtainable on this occasion as a result of having 5 divers end within the top-16 on the 2021 NCAAs. Every zone will get an computerized 5 spots allotted for qualification, plus the variety of divers that they had end in scoring place on the earlier 12 months’s nationwide championships. Within the 1-meter final 12 months, Zone B had Vazquez Montano, Vallee, Gullstrand, Pullinger and Florida’s Ashley McCool, who’s now graduated, make the highest 16.
Additionally incomes qualification on the opening day was Georgia’s Meghan Wenzel, Georgia Tech’s Camryn Hidalgo, Florida’s Maha Amer and FIU’s Maha Gouda.
Ladies’s 1-Meter Outcomes
CURRENT QUALIFIERS
Reimbursed divers are in daring, with invited-but-not-reimbursed divers in non-bold. You may learn extra concerning the distinction beneath.
| Ladies | |
| Diver | Occasion(s) |
| Aranza Vazquez Montano, UNC | 1m |
| Mia Vallee, Miami | 1m |
| Brooke Schultz, South Carolina | 1m |
| Emma Gullstrand, Miami | 1m |
| Margo O’Meara, Duke | 1m |
| Maddison Pullinger, Duke | 1m |
| Meghan Wenzel, Georgia | 1m |
| Camryn Hidalgo, Georgia Tech | 1m |
| Maha Amer, Florida | 1m |
| Maha Gouda, FIU | 1m |
Zone B motion will proceed on Monday with the ladies’s 3-meter and males’s 1-meter occasions.
SIMPLIFIED INVITE PROCEDURES
You may learn a extra in-depth take a look at the choice course of right here.
Successfully, every zone earns a particular variety of qualifying spots in every occasion, primarily based on how that Zone carried out at NCAAs final 12 months. Divers who place contained in the qualifying locations earn an NCAA invite. A diver invited in a single occasion can compete at NCAAs in every other diving occasion the place they have been prime 12 of their Zone meet.
The very best-placing divers earn NCAA reimbursement, whereas lower-placing qualifiers can compete at NCAAs, however their college should pay for his or her journey and lodging on the meet.
