NCAA Men’s Championships: Collier Dyer Wins Historic 3-Meter for Missouri
It’s been a long climb for Collier Dyer. In four years at the University of Missouri, the senior was in his ninth career NCAA Championships event on Friday night at Georgia Tech.
Never before had he finished in the top eight. Friday, he was in the top one.
Dyer scored 497.75 points on 3-meter at NCAAs Friday night, spoiling the springboard sweep bid of SMU’s Luke Sitz and claiming a historic NCAA title for Missouri.
Dyer is just the second NCAA men’s swimming and diving champion from Missouri, joining Fabian Schwingenschlogl, the 2016 champ in the 100 breaststroke. He denies Sitz, who scored 495.30 points, a second NCAA crown after his 1-meter win Thursday was the first swimming and diving title for the Mustangs in 30 years and its first NCAA crown in any sport in a decade.
Dyer’s previous best finish at NCAAs was 10th on 1-meter in 2024 as a sophomore. He finished 11th on the shorter board last year and again Thursday night. Friday’s jump was not one that you necessarily saw coming, not even after he finished sixth in prelims, more than 50 points behind the pace of Sitz.
But Dyer came up with the best finals session, nudging Sitz to the gold by 2.45 points, though Sitz still has the inside line on diver of the meet with his second medal.
USC senior Moritz Wesemann finished third with a score of 485.85. Wesemann finished fifth on 1-meter despite having the highest score in prelims yesterday, and he was second out of 3-meter prelims. It’s still jump from 10th on this board last year.
Matteo Santoro, the 1-meter runner-up from Miami, finished fourth with a score of 465.95. It was then a 40-point gap back to Conor Gesing of Florida, who finished fifth.
Texas got a big boost with 25 points from Nick Harris in sixth and Luke Forester in seventh. Harris didn’t score on 1-meter, withdrawing early in prelims.
The jumps from last year were massive across the board. Dyer was 44th in this event last year. Sitz was 17th. Gesing was 32nd. Bennett Greene of Tennessee also jumped into points in eighth, having been 13th last year. He’s one of five divers to final on both springboards this year.
Max Fowler, who finished eighth on 1-meter, was 11th for Georgia Tech. Elias Petersen of Utah went from seventh on 1-meter to 11th on 3-meter. Florida’s Jesus Agundez, who scored on 1-meter, finished 36th on the higher board.
Indiana’s 3-meter magic has vanished. Quinn Henninger won 1-meter last year, and Carson Tyler and Henninger booked their second straight 1-2 finish on 3-meter. The Hoosiers won the event in 2023 and 2021 via Andrew Capobianco, who finished second in 2022. The Hoosiers didn’t score on 1-meter last night, then didn’t score on 3-meter, with Max Weinrich 18th (he had been seventh last year). Josh Sollenberger, who was 17th on 1-meter, was a non-factor 40th.
Event 14 Men 3 mtr Diving
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Meet: M 529.10 3/27/2015 Samuel Dorman, Miami (FL)
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Dyer, Collier SR Missouri 387.55 497.75 20
2 Sitz, Luke SO SMU 442.20 495.30 17
3 Wesemann, Moritz SR USC 429.40 485.85 16
4 Santoro, Matteo FR Miami (FL) 417.35 465.95 15
5 Gesing, Conor JR Florida 384.30 425.05 14
6 Harris, Nicholas SR Texas 394.60 415.00 13
7 Forester, Luke SO Texas 385.15 405.55 12
8 Greene, Bennett SO Tennessee 400.15 402.55 11
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