2022 NCAA Men’s Championships: Texas A&M’s Kurtis Mathews Top Seed in 3-Meter Diving

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The 2022 NCAA Men’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships continued with the 3-meter diving prelims from McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

Texas A&M senior Kurtis Mathews took the top seed on the 3-meter board with a dominating 447.30 score. Mathews won the 1-meter board NCAA title on Thursday and is in position to possibly claim a second title.

Purdue has the second and third seeds with freshman Tyler Downs at 413.95 and senior Gregory Duncan less than a point behind at 413.30.

Florida junior Leonardo Garcia took the fourth seed with 408.20 points, followed by Indiana’s Andrew Capobianco (407.75), Columbia’s Jonathan Suckow (405.40), North Carolina’s Anton Down Jenkins (404.70) and LSU’s Juan Celaya-Hernandez (395.55).

Mathews didn’t compete at NCAAs last year due to obligations with the Australian national team, despite winning the SEC title on 3-meter and a silver medal in 1-meter in 2021. He also qualified for the 2020 NCAA championships before it was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic. The native of Sydney finished 31st on 1-meter in 2019 at NCAAs.

“I wasn’t able to compete, and coming back this year after a decent performance at our conference meet, I wanted to come out and finish,” Mathews said of his 1-meter win. “This is the last time I get to be here, so I wanted to try my best and see if I could end up on the podium, and it was an excellent field. Everyone was amazing. I just was lucky enough to win today.”

NCAA Event 13  Men 3 mtr Diving
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         Meet: M 529.10  3/27/2015 Samuel Dorman, Miami (FL)
         Pool: P 517.65  2/26/2017 David Dinsmore, Miami
    Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        
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                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Mathews, Kurtis        SR TAMU                          447.30  
  2 Downs, Tyler           FR Purdue                        413.95  
  3 Duncan, Gregory        SR Purdue                        413.30  
  4 Garcia, Leonardo       JR Florida                       408.20  
  5 Capobianco, Andrew     SR Indiana                       407.75  
  6 Suckow, Jonathan       JR Columbia                      405.40  
  7 Down Jenkins, Anton    SR UNC                           404.70  
  8 Hernandez, Juan        SR LSU                           395.55  
  9 Duperre, Noah          SO Texas                         395.30  
 10 Pruitt, Connor         SR Auburn                        388.25  
 11 Povzner, Victor        SO TAMU                          378.85  
 12 Casey, Conor           SR Stanford                      370.65  
 13 Yost, Lyle             JR Ohio St                       369.25  
 14 Butler, Jake           JR Minnesota                     369.05  
 15 Wade, Matthew          SR Tennessee                     368.20  
 16 Wang, Shangfei         FR USC                           366.30  
 17 Bennett, Sam           FR Purdue                        366.20  
 18 Tyler, Carson          FR Indiana                       365.70  
 19 Abadia Garcia, Adrian  FR LSU                           358.90  
 20 Svirskyi, Anton        SO Florida                       357.15  
 21 Henninger, Quentin     FR Indiana                       356.05  
 22 Flory, Maxwell         JR Miami (Florida)               355.50  
 23 Chaplin, Clayton       FR Ohio St                       355.05  
 24 Ekdahl, David          FR TCU                           353.30  
 25 Ryan, Jack             FR Stanford                      351.65  
 26 Hattie, Bryden         SO Tennessee                     350.55  
 27 Siler, Jacob           SR Ohio St                       343.55  
 28 Hart, Alexander        JR UNC                           341.85  
 29 Abramowicz, Tazman     SR Wisconsin                     341.10  
 30 Cash, Cameron          FR Pittsburgh                    330.70  
 31 Rzepka, Jordan         FR Purdue                        330.00  
 32 Markentin, Bjorn       JR Arizona                       326.85  
 33 Bennett, Bayne         JR NCSU                          323.80  
 34 Smithson, Peter        JR SMU                           322.10  
 35 Vazquez, Emanuel       JR South Carolina                316.35  
 36 Fielding, Jacob        SR Ohio St                       316.00  
 37 Correa, Eric           SR Arizona                       315.75  
 38 Lopez, Carlo           JR Missouri                      314.65  
 39 Young, Colten          SR Princeton                     313.20  
 40 Reed, Dylan            JR Pittsburgh                    311.25  
 41 Zawadzki, Noah         SR VT                            309.40  
 42 Chen, Tony             SR Utah                          306.10  
 43 Endo, Takuto           SO Missouri                      296.10  
 44 Korovin, Georgii       JR USC                           290.25  
 45 Victor, Joseph         FR Princeton                     290.05  
 46 Wesson, Adam           FR Harvard                       287.50  
 47 Smyth, Ben             FR Utah                          248.65

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