Michigan
Minnesota
Divers Head Back to Minnesota for Diving Invite
11/7/2017 11:44:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan swimming and diving program will send seven divers to the Minnesota Diving Invite, running Thursday through Saturday (Nov. 9-11) at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.
Paticipants
The divers expected to compete include senior Dani VanderZwaag, sophomores Steven Anderson, Jake Herremans and Lucy Roberts and freshmen Nikki Canale, Chris Canning and Christy Cutshaw.
In addition to Minnesota, other teams entered in the competition include Houston, Iowa, Iowa State, Nebraska, Ohio State and Wisconsin.
Format
Thursday, Nov. 9 -- 1M (Women)/3M (Men), 10 a.m. CT (preliminaries), 5 p.m. (finals)
Friday, Nov. 10 -- 1M (Men)/3M (Women), 10 a.m. CT (preliminaries), 5 p.m. (finals)
Saturday, Nov. 11 -- Platform (Men, Women), 10 a.m. CT
Divers will perform six dives on both springboard events. For platform, women will perform five dives and men will perform six. The top eight out of preliminaries will advance to finals.
Live results can be found on DiveMeets.com.
WHAT'S AT STAKE?
The divers will be attempting to get qualifying scores for the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, held March 8-10 in Columbus, Ohio. That meet will determine which divers from the Zone will move on to the NCAA Championships.
To date, those that have already qualified include Canale (1M, 3M) Herremans (1M, 3M), Todd (1M, 3M), Canning (1M, 3M) and Anderson (1M). [ Top Diving Scores: Men | Women ]
All seven divers will compete on platform for the first time this season.
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS QUALIFYINGÂ PROCEDURES
The top five female and top four male divers from each event at their respective zone diving meet will be eligible to compete at the NCAA Championships. Additional place finishers in each event at each zone will be eligible based on the number of student-athletes from that zone who finished in the top 16 in that event at the previous year's NCAA championships. All eligible divers must have achieved the zone qualifying score prior to the NCAA championships in all events they wish to participate.
For the men, Zone C is allotted 10 spots on one-meter, 10 on three-meter and 11 on platform. For the women, it is eight spots on one-meter, 10 on three-meter and 10 on platform.
Any diver that qualifies to the NCAA Championships will be allowed to optionally enter any other event(s) at the championships, provided that the diver finished in the top 12 at the same zone meet and has achieved the zone-qualifying score for that event prior to the NCAA Championships.
The Zone Diving Standards are 300.00 points for both one-meter and platform, and 320.00 for three-meter. For the women, it's 265.00 for one-meter, 280.00 for three-meter and 225.00 for platform.
UP NEXT
Fri.-Sun., Dec. 1-3 -- at Georgia Fall Invitational (Athens, Ga.), 10 a.m./5 p.m.
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