AUBURN, Ala. – The 2019 NCAA Zone B Diving Championships begin Monday morning at the Martin Aquatics Center. The three-day event is the only way for divers to advance to the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships later this month.
Auburn will bring three divers to the championships in Logan Andrews, Conner Pruitt and Alison Maillard, all three of which have qualified to compete on all three boards.
Maillard completed the SEC Championships with three top-8 finishes, the only female to final on all three boards. She finished eighth on the 3-meter, fifth on the 1-meter and sixth on the platform.
Andrews scored top-16 on all three boards, finishing 14th on the 1-meter, 13th on the 3-meter and 14th on the platform.
Pruitt finaled on the platform, finishing 7th, and also finished 11th on the 1-meter and 19th on the 3-meter.
There will be 13 teams in total represented at the Championships. Those schools with divers selected in addition to Auburn are Alabama, Duke, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The schedule for the three-day meet is as follows:
Monday, March 11
11 am CT – Men's 1-meter prelims (33 divers)
1:15 pm – Men's 1-meter finals (18 divers)
3:15 pm – Women's 3-meter prelims (46 divers)
6 pm – Women's 3-meter finals (18 divers)
Tuesday, March 12
11 am – Women's 1-meter prelims (43 divers)
2 pm – Women's 1-meter finals (18 divers)
4 pm – Men's 3-meter prelims (37 divers)
6:15 pm – Men's 3-meter finals (18 divers)
Wednesday, March 13
10 am – Women's platform prelims (32 divers)
Noon – Women's platform finals (18 divers)
2:15 pm – Men's platform prelims (30 divers)
4:15 pm – Men's platform finals (18 divers)
To advance to the NCAA Championships on the women's side, a diver must place either top-9 on the 1-meter, top-8 on the 3-meter or top-6 on the platform. If they fall into one of those categories, they must then place top-12 on the other boards to compete it as well at the NCAA Championships. For the men, they must finish top-6 on the 1-meter, top-7 on the 3-meter or top-9 on the platform. The same top-12 finish applies to them as well.
Admission to the Zone Diving Championships is free.
Live scoring will be available on Divemeets.com.
The 2019 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships will be held March 20-23 at the Jamail Texas Swimming Center on the University of Texas campus at Austin. The men's championships are the following week at the same venue.
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