SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah diving crew will head to Austin for its first main competitors of the season, dealing with off towards six groups ranked within the prime 20 on the Texas Diving Invitational contained in the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. The competitors will get underway on Thursday, Nov. 13, and runs via Saturday, Nov. 15.
Opponents: Arizona, Miami, North Texas, Stanford, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M
Location: Austin, Texas | Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center
Date: Thursday, Nov. 13 – Saturday, Nov. 15
Meet Information: DiveMeets “This meet is always the best and toughest meet of the regular season and it’s a great opportunity to challenge ourselves against the best teams in the country,” head diving coach
Richard Marschner mentioned. “With six teams in the meet sitting in the top 20 nationally, it serves as great preparation for the championship season in February and March.”
This season’s discipline consists of six groups ranked within the newest US PDCA mixed ballot – No. 1 Texas, No. 5 Miami, No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 12 Stanford, No. 19 Arizona and RV TCU – in addition to North Texas. Utah has been robust on the boards this season, profitable 5 of its eight whole occasions in two meets this season.
“With this being our first major meet of the season, we’re looking to continue making the corrections we’ve been working on in practice so we have everything locked in later in the season,” Marschner added. “We definitely have the team to compete well and make some noise in this competition and I think we’ll do that.”
Among the Best The Utes had been represented within the girls’s, males’s and mixed crew rankings when the US Professional Diving Coaches Association (US PDCA) revealed its first set of in-season rankings final week. The girls’s crew checked in at No. 13 nationally, the mixed squad was ranked at No. 20 and the boys’s aspect acquired votes.
Utah is one in every of 28 faculties nationally to at the very least obtain votes in all three polls and the one faculty within the Big 12 Conference to take action. Utah boasts the second-highest ranked Big 12 faculty on the ladies’s aspect, one spot behind No. 13 Kansas, and the third-highest ranked males’s squad behind No. 11. Arizona and No. 22 TCU. As a mixed program, Utah is second within the convention behind solely No. 19 Arizona.
Halloween W The Utes dominated of their residence opener on Halloween, with the boys’s crew beating Colorado Mesa 228-72 and the ladies’s aspect profitable by a 192-108 scoreline. The Utes got here out on prime in 26 of 32 whole occasions, together with eight podium sweeps.
Utah gained on each the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard on the boys’s and ladies’s aspect.
Elias Petersen made his season debut and took each golds on the boys’s aspect, whereas
Callie Eaglestone and
Kathryn Grant every logged a win of their first competitors of the season.
First Meet, No Jitters Attila Bernatsky shined in his season debut towards Wyoming, profitable the boys’s 3m with an inventory whole of 281.25 and positioned second within the 1m.
Alex Just positioned second within the 3m in his Utah debut as properly.
Annalise Shrader and
Cierra Cole additionally confirmed promise of their collegiate debut. Cole completed second within the girls’s 3m and third within the 1m, whereas Shrader logged a second-place end result within the 1m and positioned fourth within the 3m.
Bernatsky Breaks Out Sophomore diver
Attila Bernatsky was named the Big 12 Men’s Diver of the Week final week after a stellar begin to the season towards Wyoming. Bernatsky’s recognition was the primary of his profession and the eleventh weekly award by the Utes since becoming a member of the Big 12 Conference previous to final season. Eight of Utah’s 11 weekly awards have come from divers.
A Look Back – On the Boards In the sixteenth season below Marschner, the Utes have excessive expectations and are receiving some preseason nationwide recognition. The girls’s diving crew was ranked ninth within the nation and the highest crew within the Big 12 Conference, whereas the Utes ranked thirteenth amongst all mixed Division I packages and take the highest spot within the Big 12 when the US PDCA launched its first preseason coaches ballot final month.
- On the ladies’s aspect, the Utes will likely be led by Kathryn Grant and Callie Eaglestone.
- Eaglestone was acknowledged because the Big 12 Freshman Diver of the Meet on the convention championships final season and the duo each represented the Utes on the NCAA Championships and can look to return to McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta come March.
- Eaglestone earned a spot on each the all-Big 12 first and second groups whereas Grant was named to the convention’s second crew.
- Elias Petersen, final season’s Big 12 Men’s Diver of the Year, will look to anchor the boys’s aspect after inserting fourth to earn All-America standing on the 1-meter springboard and twenty fifth on the 3-meter springboard on the 2025 Championships.
- Petersen broke his personal program document within the 1m final yr and smashed the Ute Natatorium document that stood since 2018 with an inventory rating of 411.45. He will likely be joined on the boys’s aspect by Auburn switch Alex Just.
Coaches Corner
Marschner introduced on Logan Andrews to assist coach the Ute divers. Andrews spent the final two years as the pinnacle diving coach at New Mexico after spending the prior season at Ouachita Baptist. He spent his faculty profession at Auburn, the place he certified for NCAA Zones all 4 years and was a two-time finalist on the SEC Championships. He was teammates with present Utah swimming assistant coach Aly Tetzloff whereas in Alabama.
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