Crayne, Palmer Win on Day 1 of 2016 Zone E Championships

The Nevada and UCLA women and the Utah and Stanford men each added two NCAA qualifiers on the opening night of the 2016 Zone E Diving Championships.

Full results

Nevada went 1-2 on the women’s side, with Krysta Palmer taking the 1-meter win. Sharae Zheng was second. Both are into NCAAs and both have locked up reimbursement slots.*

*Read up on the full details of the NCAA selection process at the bottom of this page.

Utah kept pace on the men’s side, going 1-2 with Jacob Crayne winning 3-meter and Josiah Purss taking second.

The full qualifiers list is below. On the women’s side, Palmer Zheng and UCLA’s Maria Polyakova have all wrapped up reimbursement slots, and UCLA’s Eloise Belanger will get one if any diver doubles up on two of the top 10 priority spots.

For the men, Crayne and Purss will get NCAA reimbursement, while Arizona’s Rafael Quintero is just on the outside but likely to sneak in like Belanger.

Priority Finisher Women Men
1 3-meter Champ Jacob Crayne, UTAH
2 1-meter Champ Krysta Palmer, NEV
3 Platform Champ
4 3-meter 2nd Josiah Purss, UTAH
5 1-meter 2nd Sharae Zheng, NEV
6 Platform 2nd
7 3-meter 3rd Rafael Quintero, AZ
8 1-meter 3rd Maria Polyakova, UCLA
9 Platform 3rd
10 3-meter 4th Bradley Christensen, STAN
11 1-meter 4th Eloise Belanger, UCLA
12 Platform 4th
13 3-meter 5th Tarek Abdelghany, STAN
14 1-meter 5th
15 Platform 5th
16 3-meter 6th
17 1-meter 6th
18 Platform 6th
19 3-meter 7th
20 1-meter 7th
21 Platform 7th
22 3-meter 8th
23 1-meter 8th
24 Platform 8th
25 3-meter 9th
26 1-meter 9th
27 Platform 9th
28 3-meter 10th

(Athletes in bold are locked in for NCAA reimbursement.)

NCAA ZONE QUALIFYING PROCEDURES

From our refresher post, which you can find here.

Divers qualify for the NCAA Championships through Zone Meets spread across the country. Each zone earns a set number of NCAA qualifying spots based on the performances of that Zone at NCAAs in the past.

Here are the qualifying spots for each event in each zone:

Women

1M 3M PLATFORM
Zone A 5 6 6
Zone B 9 8 7
Zone C 12 7 10
Zone D 6 9 9
Zone E 9 11 9

 

Men

1M 3M PLATFORM
Zone A 4 5 4
Zone B 10 10 8
Zone C 7 9 8
Zone D 7 7 8
Zone E 8 5 8

Any diver who finishes within the qualifying spots for their zone earns eligibility for the NCAA Championships. Any diver who earns eligibility in one event can compete in any of the other two events at NCAAs, provided they finished inside the top 12 in their zone in that event.

The final wrinkle is a new rule from last season that makes a distinction between “eligible” athletes and “reimbursed” athletes. The NCAA loosened its rules last season to allow more divers into the meet, but divers qualifying under the new rules do not recieve reimbursement from the NCAA for their travel, lodging and meet expenses – that means it’s up to the individual school to decide if they will foot the bill themselves to allow the diver to compete at NCAAs.

Each zone has a set number of reimbursement spots between the three events combined:

WOMEN MEN
Zone A 5 4
Zone B 8 9
Zone C 11 8
Zone D 7 8
Zone E 10 6

The spots are determined by a priority chart. The winners of each event have first priority, starting with the 3-meter champ, then the 1-meter champ, then the platform champ. After that, the runners-up are added in the same order. If an athlete wins both 1-meter and 3-meter, they still only take one reimbursement slot, meaning the NCAA will keep adding rows of this chart until the reimbursement quota for that zone is met

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