Diving

NCAA Women’s Championships: Delaney Schnell Pens Storybook Ending with Platform Gold Delaney Schnell had been pushing all week for a gold medal, which seems fitting, since she’s been striving since the fall of 2017 for an NCAA title. Down in in Knoxville, the Arizona senior and American Olympic silv...

The 2023 NCAA Division I Women's Championships continued with the 3-meter diving competition. North Carolina's Aranza Vazquez Montano went 2-for-2. After winning the 1-meter board on Thursday, she claimed the 3-meter title on Friday in Knoxville. Vazquez Montano won the event with a score of 385.80....

NCAA Women’s Championships: Aranza Vazquez Montano Golden on 1-Meter Aranza Vazquez Montano couldn’t contain her joy while being interviewed on ESPN Thursday night at the NCAA Championships. The choice of words to express her feelings about winning the 1-meter diving event was, shall we say, colorfu...

Passages: Nick Rodionoff, Longtime Pepperdine Coach and Diving Mentor, 87 Nick Rodionoff, the former women’s swimming and diving head coach at Pepperdine who worked at the school for four decades, died on Feb. 17. He was 87 years old. Rodionoff led the swimming and diving program for 18 years from 2...

LSU diver Chiara Pellacani was named the LEN European Aquatics Female Diver of the Year last week, the organization announced. Pellacani, a native of Rome, Italy, immediately acclimated to the high standards of the LSU diving program after joining in the Spring semester of 2022. She finishe...

Brooke Schultz Enjoys “Full Circle” Moment of Diving History at SECs With her whirlwind diving schedule completed in two days, Brooke Schultz had time to reflect Thursday at the SEC Championships. In 2018, she’d been a rookie on deck at Texas A&M’s Student Recreation Center Natatorium, representing ...

Carolina Sculti had a year of eligibility remaining and had a decision to make. After four years at Stanford, the Pac-12 champion diver looked to her future goals to determine where this year should take her. Sculti, already an entrepreneur, wanted to go where she could train toward the 2024 Olympic...

Summer McIntosh, Joshua Liendo Win 2022 ACA Awards Summer McIntosh and Joshua Liendo were named the Female and Male Athletes of the Year in the 2022 Aquatics Canada Aquatiques (ACA) Awards released Tuesday. The ACA Awards recognize the top contributors in a variety of disciplines in Canadian swimmin...

Knoxville to Host 2024 U.S. Olympic Diving Team Trials The road to the Paris Olympics for aspiring American divers will go through Knoxville, Tennessee, which was awarded the 2024 U.S. Olympic Diving Team Trials on Wednesday. The event, which will be held in June 2024, was awarded by USA Diving and ...

Delaney Schnell, Nick Harris Wrap up USA Diving Nationals with Titles Delaney Schnell and Nick Harris added titles on the final night of USA Diving Winter Nationals in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Sunday. The Olympian Schnell prevailed in the women’s 10-meter platform competition. Harris picked up ...

Jordan Rzepka, Sarah Bacon Win Titles at USA Diving Winter Nationals Jordan Rzepka and Sarah Bacon added titles on the fourth night of the 2022 USA Diving Winter National championships. The competition in Morgantown, West Virginia, wraps up Sunday. Rzepka, representing Purdue Diving, scored 853.50 p...

USA Diving Winter Nationals: Andrew Capobianco, Hailey Hernandez Earn Gold Medals Olympians Andrew Capobianco (Holly Springs, N.C./Johansen Diving Academy) and Hailey Hernandez (Southlake, Texas/University of Texas) won national titles in men’s 3-meter and women’s 1-meter Friday at the USA Diving Wi...

USA Diving Winter Nationals: Tyler Downs, Greg Duncan Win Men's Synchro Gold Tyler Downs (Ballwin, Mo./RipFest) and Greg Duncan (Oakton, Va./Purdue Diving) won the men’s synchronized 3-meter gold medal for the second year in a row Thursday at the 2022 USA Diving Winter National Championships at the ...

Olympian Kassidy Cook (The Woodlands, Texas) won her 11th senior national title while a pair of teenagers claimed their first titles on the opening day of the 2022 USA Diving Winter National Championships at the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park. Cook and Sarah Bacon (Indianapolis, Ind./Minneapolis, Minn...

Kristen Hayden Embracing Role as American Diving Pioneer Kristen Hayden’s intense focus doesn’t leave room for many what-ifs. Yet one looms in the background of everything she has achieved in her diving career. What if, Hayden has pondered plenty, she hadn’t been steered in the direction of diving? ...

The City of Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center’s 27-meter dive tower has earned a top architectural design award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The AIA gave it the organization’s “Honor Award” in the built category for the new tower at the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) comp...

Olympic gold medalist David Boudia has announced his retirement from diving. Boudia, who won the gold medal on the 10-meter platform at the 2012 London Olympic Games, made the announcement Wednesday on social media. "What a ride it’s been! The time has to come to officially announce my retirement fr...

UConn Hires David McKown as New Diving Coach The University of Connecticut Friday announced the hiring of David McKown as the Huskies’ new diving coach. McKown spent seven seasons as the diving coach at the University of Indianapolis, leading the squad to a pair of top-three finishes at the 2022 NCA...

Retired Olympic Diver Jan Hempel Accuses German Federation of Mishandling Abuse Claims Retired Olympic diver Jan Hempel this week has accused the German swimming federation of failing to act on complaints about being sexually abused by a former coach. The four-time Olympian alleges that former coach...

Passages: Legendary Diving Coach Hobie Billingsley Dies at 94; Left Impact on the World Hobie Billingsley, a 1983 International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Diving Coach, and one of the most beloved diving coaches of a generation, passed away early this morning, July 16, 2022. He was 94. Hobie was th...