Thursday, March 28
Indianapolis, Ind.
Prelims: 12 PM, Finals: 5:15 PM
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NCAAs Day 1: 1-Meter Diving
Purdue Trio Set to Dive at NCAA Championships in Indy
3/27/2024 4:49:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Men at the NCAA Championships
Thursday to Saturday, March 28-30 / ESPN+
Diving Prelims at Noon ET
Diving Consolation Finals at 5:15 p.m. ET
Diving Championship Finals at approx. 7:15 p.m. ET
IUPUI's IU Natatorium / Indianapolis, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue men's swimming & diving will have multiple entries in all three diving events as the national spotlight shines on Indianapolis this week at the NCAA Championships.
Jordan Rzepka, Holden Higbie and Max Miller qualified for NCAAs, giving the Boilermakers at least three men's diving qualifiers for the seventh time since 2014. Higbie and Rzepka are among an elite group of 23 nationally to qualify in all three diving events this year. Purdue is among the seven teams to have multiple divers qualify in all three events. Rzepka accomplished the feat for the third year in a row, finishing top 10 on platform (7th) and 1-meter (10th) as a freshman in 2022. Higbie achieved the feat as a freshman this season. Miller is a qualifier in both springboard events.
The top 16 finishers in the preliminaries clinch All-America honors and advance to finals. The top eight compete for the national championship in the evening finals. Diving is traditionally the final individual event of the finals sessions and begins in a window of approximately 7:15-7:45 p.m. ET. Consolation finals for diving have been moved to 5:15 p.m. as the first event of the evening sessions.
PURDUE SCHEDULE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Thursday, March 28 – Holden Higbie, Max Miller & Jordan Rzepka on 1-Meter
• Friday, March 29 – Holden Higbie, Max Miller & Jordan Rzepka on 3-Meter
• Saturday, March 30 – Holden Higbie & Jordan Rzepka on Platform
Rzepka won silver on platform, bronze on 3-meter and finished top four in all three events at the Big Ten Championships a few weeks ago. Holden Higbie also scored in all three diving events at Big Tens. Rzepka was a two-time medalist at Big Tens in 2022 as well and that success carried over to NCAAs. His top-10 finishes – seventh on platform, 10th on 1-meter – helped Purdue finish 15th in the team scoring, its top showing at the national championship meet since 2017 (13th). That year also marked the last time IUPUI's IU Natatorium hosted the men's NCAA Championships.
Steele Johnson (2017) and Casey Matthews (2013) both won NCAA titles for Purdue when Indianapolis served as the meet host. Johnson won national titles on 1-meter and 3-meter as well as silver on platform as the CSCAA Diver of the Year. Matthews won her NCAA title on 3-meter, the first of any kind for the Purdue women. Indy's premier aquatic center was also scheduled to host the men's meet in 2020 before the cancelation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Also in 2017, the Purdue men had multiple All-Americans in all three diving events, with Joe Cifelli and Brandon Loschiavo joining Johnson on the podium.
PURDUE'S RECENT ALL-AMERICA HISTORY
• Including swimming events, the Boilermakers have had at least one All-American (in any event) at the NCAA Championships every year this century the meet has been held.
• One men's diver has earned All-America honors in 16 of the last 18 national championship meets (all but 2012 and 2023). David Boudia and Steele Johnson won a combined 11 NCAA titles for Purdue from 2009 to 2018. Brandon Loschiavo (2021) and Tyler Downs (2022) were NCAA champions on the tower in consecutive years. Purdue became the first team since Auburn from 2004 to 2006 to win consecutive national titles in a diving event with a different individual winner.
• Johnson (2015) and Downs (2022) were both top-eight All-Americans in both a springboard event and the tower as freshmen. Loschiavo (2017) and Rzepka (2022) also achieved the feat as consolation finalists in a springboard event in their debut seasons. But you have to go back to Boudia (2009) to find the last Purdue freshman to be an All-American in both springboard events.
Last week, Purdue Divers Sophie McAfee, Daryn Wright, Maycey Vieta, Jaye Patrick and Jenna Sonnenberg competed at the women's NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. McAfee was an All-American on both 3-meter and platform, accomplishing the feat for the second year in a row while moving up to top-eight status this year. Wright and Vieta joined McAfee as All-Americans on the tower as Purdue produced three of the eight championship finalists in the event for the fourth time (including the men). The Boilermakers finished 18th in the team scoring.
Purdue Men at the NCAA Championships
Thursday to Saturday, March 28-30 / ESPN+
Diving Prelims at Noon ET
Diving Consolation Finals at 5:15 p.m. ET
Diving Championship Finals at approx. 7:15 p.m. ET
IUPUI's IU Natatorium / Indianapolis, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue men's swimming & diving will have multiple entries in all three diving events as the national spotlight shines on Indianapolis this week at the NCAA Championships.
Jordan Rzepka, Holden Higbie and Max Miller qualified for NCAAs, giving the Boilermakers at least three men's diving qualifiers for the seventh time since 2014. Higbie and Rzepka are among an elite group of 23 nationally to qualify in all three diving events this year. Purdue is among the seven teams to have multiple divers qualify in all three events. Rzepka accomplished the feat for the third year in a row, finishing top 10 on platform (7th) and 1-meter (10th) as a freshman in 2022. Higbie achieved the feat as a freshman this season. Miller is a qualifier in both springboard events.
The top 16 finishers in the preliminaries clinch All-America honors and advance to finals. The top eight compete for the national championship in the evening finals. Diving is traditionally the final individual event of the finals sessions and begins in a window of approximately 7:15-7:45 p.m. ET. Consolation finals for diving have been moved to 5:15 p.m. as the first event of the evening sessions.
PURDUE SCHEDULE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Thursday, March 28 – Holden Higbie, Max Miller & Jordan Rzepka on 1-Meter
• Friday, March 29 – Holden Higbie, Max Miller & Jordan Rzepka on 3-Meter
• Saturday, March 30 – Holden Higbie & Jordan Rzepka on Platform
Rzepka won silver on platform, bronze on 3-meter and finished top four in all three events at the Big Ten Championships a few weeks ago. Holden Higbie also scored in all three diving events at Big Tens. Rzepka was a two-time medalist at Big Tens in 2022 as well and that success carried over to NCAAs. His top-10 finishes – seventh on platform, 10th on 1-meter – helped Purdue finish 15th in the team scoring, its top showing at the national championship meet since 2017 (13th). That year also marked the last time IUPUI's IU Natatorium hosted the men's NCAA Championships.
Steele Johnson (2017) and Casey Matthews (2013) both won NCAA titles for Purdue when Indianapolis served as the meet host. Johnson won national titles on 1-meter and 3-meter as well as silver on platform as the CSCAA Diver of the Year. Matthews won her NCAA title on 3-meter, the first of any kind for the Purdue women. Indy's premier aquatic center was also scheduled to host the men's meet in 2020 before the cancelation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Also in 2017, the Purdue men had multiple All-Americans in all three diving events, with Joe Cifelli and Brandon Loschiavo joining Johnson on the podium.
PURDUE'S RECENT ALL-AMERICA HISTORY
• Including swimming events, the Boilermakers have had at least one All-American (in any event) at the NCAA Championships every year this century the meet has been held.
• One men's diver has earned All-America honors in 16 of the last 18 national championship meets (all but 2012 and 2023). David Boudia and Steele Johnson won a combined 11 NCAA titles for Purdue from 2009 to 2018. Brandon Loschiavo (2021) and Tyler Downs (2022) were NCAA champions on the tower in consecutive years. Purdue became the first team since Auburn from 2004 to 2006 to win consecutive national titles in a diving event with a different individual winner.
• Johnson (2015) and Downs (2022) were both top-eight All-Americans in both a springboard event and the tower as freshmen. Loschiavo (2017) and Rzepka (2022) also achieved the feat as consolation finalists in a springboard event in their debut seasons. But you have to go back to Boudia (2009) to find the last Purdue freshman to be an All-American in both springboard events.
Last week, Purdue Divers Sophie McAfee, Daryn Wright, Maycey Vieta, Jaye Patrick and Jenna Sonnenberg competed at the women's NCAA Championships in Athens, Ga. McAfee was an All-American on both 3-meter and platform, accomplishing the feat for the second year in a row while moving up to top-eight status this year. Wright and Vieta joined McAfee as All-Americans on the tower as Purdue produced three of the eight championship finalists in the event for the fourth time (including the men). The Boilermakers finished 18th in the team scoring.
| 2024 NCAAs QUALIFIERS IN ALL 3 DIVING EVENTS (23) | |
| • Tanner Braunton, Texas • Cameron Cash, Pitt • Clayton Chaplin, Ohio State • Gage Dubois, Arizona • Noah Duperre, Texas • Collier Dyer, Missouri • Takuto Endo, Texas A&M • Mohamed Fraouk, Alabama • Luca Fassi, Princeton • Daley Fraser, Pitt • Laurent Gosselin-Paradis, USC • Bryden Hattie, Tennessee |
• Quinn Henninger, Indiana • Holden Higbie, Purdue • Gael Jimenez, Cal Baptist • Carson Paul, LSU • Jordan Rzepka, Purdue • Nick Stone, Tennessee • Josh Thai, Cal • Carson Tyler, Indiana • Aidan Wang, Princeton • Max Weinrich, Indiana • Lyle Yost, Ohio State |
