2025 NCAA Zone Diving Recap: Tuesday

2025 NCAA Zone Diving Championships

• Zone A
  • March 10-12, 2025
  • Piscataway, New Jersey
  • Results
• Zone B
  • March 9-12, 2025
  • Auburn, Alabama
  • Results
• Zone C
  • March 10-12, 2025
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • Results
• Zone D
  • March 10-12, 2025
  • Iowa City, Iowa
  • Results
• Zone E
  • March 10-12, 2025
  • Federal Way, Washington
  • Results

While the 2025 NCAA Championship swimming qualifiers are all but locked in, the divers are competing over the next few days to secure their spots. Unlike in swimming, divers are not able to qualify for NCAAs during the regular season. The nature of diving is such that the judging cannot be fully standardized across the nation, so the NCAA hosts five different “zone” meets across the nation to award Championship qualification. The locations of each of the meets cover a certain regional area and teams must attend their assigned zone location.

Each event within each zone is awarded a certain amount of automatic qualifying spots. In the interest of simplicity, the number of qualifying spots zones receive is a reflection of how well divers from that zone placed at the previous NCAA Championships. No matter how many automatic qualifying spots a zone has, athletes who place in the top 12 but are outside of the qualifying standard are basically awarded what is the equivalent to a “B” cut in swimming. Meaning, as long as they are a qualifier in one event, they may compete in others in which they placed top 12 in at zones.

And if the NCAA qualifying procedures for divers weren’t complicated enough as is, the zone meet is structured slightly differently than other regular season and championship meets. This postseason competition is run as a prelims-finals meet and cumulative scoring. This means each dive counts equally and consistency is key to success at this meet.

***Divers listed below with a star indicates those who achieved what is essentially their “B” cut***

Zone A (Piscataway, NJ)

Women’s 1-meter (7 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Elizabeth Kaye (Virginia) – 602.90
2. Holly Prasanto (Rutgers) – 602.40
3. Bailee Sturgill (Rutgers) – 583.70
4. Katerina Hoffman (Rutgers) – 582.00
5. Lily Horenkamp (Yale) – 571.30
6. Nina Janmyr (Harvard) – 571.25
7. Gloria Lai (Yale) – 561.70
8. Marialis Kwak (Buffalo) – 560.60*
9. Amelia Scott (Rutgers) – 558.10*
10. Hayden Henderson (Yale) – 554.35*
11. Charlotte Martinkus (Princeton) – 545.20*
12. Maggie Squire (Princeton) – 544.45*

The Rutgers women continue their success in Zone A, securing three of the seven automatic spots. Echo of the qualified Rutgers divers from today also qualified to compete on the three-meter. After only qualifying one female diver yesterday, the Ivy League secured three more spots with Yale’s Gloria Lai and Lily Horenkamp and Harvard’s Nina Janmyr. Virginia’s Elizabeth Kaye now has qualification spots in two events secured, making the decision for the Virginia roster spot more difficult.

Men’s 3-meter (5 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Andrew Bell (UMASS) – 773.90
2. Rocky Ramsland (Virginia Tech) – 763.15
3. Aidan Wang (Princeton) – 762.65
4. Noah Bernard (Pitt) – 746.70
5. Cameron Cash (Pitt) – 738.00
6. Rowland Lawver (Brown) – 729.20*
7. Finnian Gelbach (Navy) – 702.35*
8. Jacob Fisher (Virginia Tech) – 699.50*
9. Luca Fassi (Princeton) – 699.30*
10. Joseph Nicol (Columbia) – 676.25*
11. Nathan Cox (Virginia Tech) – 662.85*
12. Owen Recker (WVU) – 662.25*

Andrew Bell won his second event of the Zone week, now locking in his spots to compete in both springboard events in Federal Way. New mens qualifiers out of this zone today include Virginia Tech’s Ramsland, Princeton’s Wang, and Pitt’s bernard.

Zone B (Auburn, AL)

Women’s 3-meter (7 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Lanie Gutch (UNC) – 706.40
2. Margo O’Meara (Duke) – 699.20
3. Aranza Vazquez Montano (UNC) – 696.90
4. Mia Vallee (Miami) – 696.70
5. Sophie Verzyl (South Carolina) – 695.25
6. Camyla Monroy (Florida) – 682.95
7. Chiara Pellacani (Miami) – 680.85
8. Samantha Vear (Florida State) – 662.00*
9. Abigail Farrar (Auburn) – 636.00*
10. Kayleigh Clark (Florida State) – 632.75*
11. Lynae Shorter (Tennessee) – 616.40*
12. Ellie Joyce (UNC) – 613.85*

North Carolina’s Lanie Gutch continues her good week in Auburn, securing her second win in as many days. Interestingly, in this event, all of the automatic qualifying spots were taken by divers who already automatically qualified yesterday on the one meter, so there are no new women qualifiers in Zone B today.

Men’s platform (6 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Jesus Gonzalez (Florida) – 813.45
2. Maxwell Flory (Miami) – 779.30
3. Whit Andrus (Auburn) – 775.85
4. Nigel Chambers (Alabama) – 749.50
5. Maxwell Spencer (South Carolina) – 747.65
6. Carlos Alberto Martinez Vargas (Florida State) – 743.85
7. Bennett Greene (Tennessee) – 713.00*
8. Nicholas Stone (Tennessee) – 701.85*
9. Noah Turner (Florida State) – 701.25*
10. Carter Loftin (UNC) – 660.70*
11. Elisha Dees (Florida) – 651.50*
12. Alexander Scott (Georgia Tech) – 643.55*

The Zone B men’s meet started a day earlier than all the other zones, so this was the last chance for these men to qualify. Nigel Chambers, Maxwell Spencer and Carlos Alberto Martinez Vargas all snagged those last-minute qualification spots to the NCAA Championships. Florida’s Gonzalez has now officially qualified in all three diving events, which could be crucial for the Gators in terms of the team race.

Zone C (Columbus, OH)

Women’s 1-meter (6 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Avery Worobel (Purdue) – 588.30
2. Ella Roselli (Indiana) – 578.15
3. Paola Pineda (Ohio State) – 576.75
4. Lindsay Gizzi (Louisville) – 563.25
5. Lily Witte (Indiana) – 561.00
6. Jenna Sonnenberg (Purdue) – 553.80
7. Avery Giese (Kentucky) – 553.10*
8. Kiarra Milligan (Michigan) – 535.15*
9. Claire McDaniels (Kentucky) – 526.55*
10. Sammantha Helmboldt (Louisville) – 524.65*
11. Evelyna Johnson (Michigan) – 519.10*
12. Mary Kate Cavanaugh (Indiana) – 518.95*

After just missing out on qualification yesterday, Purdue fifth-year Jenna Sonnenberg narrowly grabbed the final qualification slot in this event. She will compete alongside teammate Avery Worobel on the one-meter in Washington in a little over a week’s time. Indiana is also adding two events to their diving schedule as Roselli and Witte both added this event after qualifying on three-meter on Monday. Pineda, Gizzi, and Milligan are all also adding the one meter to their competition schedule after auto-qualifying previously.

Men’s 3-meter (8 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Carson Tyler (Indiana) – 927.35
2. Maxwell Weinrich (Indiana) – 790.45
3. Quinn Henninger (Indiana) – 787.05
4. Jordan Rzepka (Purdue) – 758.60
5. Zachary Welsh (Purdue) – 751.65
6. Sebastian Oterio (IU, Indianapolis) – 726.90
7. Cameron Gammage (Michigan) – 726.35
8. Clayton Chaplin (Ohio State) – 724.45
9. Maxwell Miller (Purdue) – 712.00*
10. Tyler Wills (Purdue) – 706.40*
11. Tyler Read (Ohio State) – 695.30*
12. Kaden Springfield (Purdue) – 682.10*

Indiana’s Carson Tyler dominated this three-meter event, winning by over 130 points ahead of second place. It’s no surprise to see all Indiana and Purdue at the top of the leaderboard here. The only new qualifier here comes in eighth place Clayton Chaplin from Ohio State. Chaplin would have been disappointed to miss one-meter qualification yesterday as he was an A finalist in that event last year in Indianapolis. He redeems himself here by earning the final automatic qualification spot.

Zone D (Iowa City, IA)

Women’s 1-meter (11 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Hailey Hernandez (Texas) – 624.60
2. Alejandra Estudillo (Texas) – 615.15
3. Anna Kwong (TCU) – 614.10
4. Shiyun Lai (Kansas) – 605.75
5. Montserrat Lavenant (LSU) – 594.75
6. Elna Widerstrom (Minnesota) – 593.60
7. Maria Sanchez-Moreno (Arkansas) – 590.95
8. Adeline Albrecht (Minnesota) – 586.50
9. Viviana Del Angel (Minnesota) – 584.65
10. Jaclynn Fowler (SMU) – 582.05
11. Mayson Richards (Texas A&M) – 577.30
12. Bayleigh Cranford (Texas) – 574.30*

Texas’ duo of Hernandez and Estudillo took the top two spots on the one-meter in Iowa City on Tuesday. This zone had eleven automatic qualifying spots for this event, which is huge. The one “B cut” went to Texas’ Bayleigh Cranford, who qualified automatically yesterday on the three meter, so we will see all 12 of these ladies competing on this event in Federal Way.

Men’s 3-meter (9 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Luke Sitz (SMU) – 788.80
2. Allen Bottego (Texas A&M) – 764.45
3. Nicholas Harris (Texas) – 758.40
4. Carson Paul (LSU) – 755.00
5. Yutong Wang (Minnesota) – 737.00
6. Zayne Danielewicz (LSU) – 722.25
7. Collier Dyer (Mizzou) – 717.70
8. David Ekdahl (TCU) – 715.10
9. Manuel Borowski (Texas) – 701.95
10. Jacob Welsh (Texas) – 688.30*
11. Jacob Jones (Texas) – 680.25*
12. Braylon Goodno (Minnesota) – 677.75*

After not qualifying any divers at all on Monday, LSU gets two of the nine automatic qualification spots here as SEC champion Carson Paul placed fourth, and Zayne Danielewicz placed sixth. Texas added a new qualifier in senior Manuel Borowski, bringing their total up to four men qualified now. It will be interesting to see what the Longhorns do, as they will likely be over the NCAA roster limit of 18 when accounting for divers.

Zone E (Federal Way, WA)

Women’s platform (9 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Eden Cheng (UCLA) – 612.10
2. Kate Miller (USC) – 588.80
3. Anna Lemkin (Stanford) – 577.30
4. Zara Joy Ayazi (Arizona) – 520.45
5. Kathryn Grant (Utah) – 503.05
6. Holly Waxman (Utah) – 493.65
7. Alexia Jackson (BYU) – 486.50
8. Maya Salvitti (UCLA) – 481.25
9. Grace Ally (CSU, Fresno) – 472.30
10. Emilie Moore (Stanford) – 470.25*
11. Lauren Burch (Standord) – 466.15*
12. Isabella Gomez (New Mexico) – 464.35*

Utah was the big winner out of Zone E on the women’s side today as they qualified two new divers on the platform, bringing their women’s squad up to three divers competing in Federal Way. Platform specialists Eden Cheng, Kate Miller, and Anna Lemkin all look primed to score for their teams at NCAAs.

Men’s 3-meter (6 automatic qualifying spots)

1. Jack Ryan (Stanford) – 856.55
2. Moritz Wesemann (USC) – 812.80
3. Shangfei Wang (USC) – 782.55
4. Laurent Gosselin-Paradis (USC) – 775.60
5. Hunter Hollenbeck (Stanford) – 758.70
6. Elias Petersen (Utah) – 753.05
7. Joshua Thai (Cal) – 732.05*
8. Mario Del Valle Jr (CBU) – 724.10*
9. Gage Dubois (Arizona) – 710.90*
10. Geoffrey Vavitsas (Cal) – 689.85*
11. Jesco Helling (Utah) – 675.85*
12. Robert gref (USC) – 669.55*

Stanford and USC take up most of the qualification spots for the three-meter event in Zone E. Stanford’s Jack Ryan looked especially strong today and is definitely a title contender here in his senior season. Wesemann is an exciting first year out of Germany and will surely rack up points for USC in a couple of weeks. Cal had two divers achieve the “B standard,” but neither has automatically qualified yet. They will have one more chance on Wednesday as the men take on the platform event, where this zone has seven qualifying spots.