NAU Swimming & Diving Splits Action Between UCLA Diving Invite and Arizona Twin

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (January 7, 2026) – Northern Arizona Swimming & Diving heads west this week for a busy and aggressive stretch, because the Lumberjacks cut up motion between Southern California and Tucson.

The NAU diving squad will journey to Los Angeles for the UCLA Diving Invite, a three-day competitors hosted by the UCLA Bruins, operating Thursday–Sunday, Jan. 8–11.

The invite includes a deep and nationally aggressive subject, together with UCLA (host), UNLV, Utah, Iowa, USC, San Diego State, Hawai’i, Cal Baptist, the University of Idaho, and NAU, offering a robust midseason take a look at for the Lumberjacks on the boards.

Northern Arizona can be represented by Kirsten Clark, Mackenna Stocker, Grace Wesche, and Margaret Wesche, all of whom are entered throughout 1-meter, 3-meter, and platform occasions all through the weekend.

Competition for NAU begins on Friday, Jan. 9, with ladies’s 1-meter springboard prelims and males’s 3-meter prelims, adopted by finals later within the day. The Lumberjacks are additionally scheduled to compete within the ladies’s and males’s group diving occasions on Friday.

Action continues on Saturday, Jan. 10, with ladies’s 3-meter springboard prelims and finals, alongside the lads’s platform competitors. The meet concludes on Sunday, Jan. 11, with ladies’s platform and males’s 1-meter springboard occasions, that includes each preliminary and ultimate rounds.

The UCLA Diving Invite offers NAU with invaluable alternatives to sharpen execution, achieve expertise towards Power Five and nationally acknowledged packages, and proceed constructing momentum because the season progresses. Results all through the weekend can be out there on DiveMeets.com, with recaps and updates to comply with.

While the divers compete in Los Angeles, the NAU swimming squad will head south to Tucson for a twin meet towards the Arizona Wildcats on Friday, Jan. 9 at 1 p.m. (MST).

The match-up towards Arizona presents invaluable race-day expertise towards one of many nation’s premier packages. Since 2010, Northern Arizona has averaged 106.61 factors per assembly towards the Wildcats, with the newest match-up happening on Jan. 5, 2024, in Tucson. Friday’s contest will function an necessary tune-up because the Lumberjacks proceed by means of the center of their season.

Live outcomes for Arizona twin can be out there all through the weekend on MeetMobile.com.

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