Navy to Play Host to NCAA Zone A Diving Championship

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Navy’s Lejeune Hall would be the web site for this week’s NCAA Zone A Diving Championship, which is able to decide the qualifiers from the area for the upcoming NCAA Championship meets.  Included among the many discipline of 176 qualifiers are seven divers from Navy.

Schedule

The meet begins Monday, March 9 and runs by Wednesday, March 11.  Monday’s slate options the ladies’s one meter (10:30 a.m.) and males’s three meter (midday), Tuesday’s occasions are the ladies’s three meter (10:30 a.m.) and males’s one meter (midday) and platform diving can be contested on Wednesday (ladies at 11 a.m., males at 2 p.m.).

Fan Access

Fans with out prior authorization will NOT be allowed to drive by the USNA gates.  Additionally, these with out prior approval will NOT be allowed to entry the USNA by strolling by one of many gates.

The solely manner for these guests to achieve entry to the USNA for the meet is to trip the shuttle bus, which is able to depart from and return to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (550 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, Md., 21401).  Enter the blue / west car parking zone by gate 5 off of Taylor Avenue.  There is a $10 per car parking charge.  The free fan shuttle bus will depart from and return to the Blue Angel jet.  

Everyone ages 18 and over should have a sound image ID (i.e.: State issued driver’s license with REAL ID or a U.S. authorities issued passport). Visitors ages 17 and youthful with out a legitimate image ID should be accompanied by an grownup.  Security screening will happen previous to somebody being allowed on the bus.

Foreign passports should not permitted for common entry.

The shuttle bus will ONLY be obtainable for entrance to the USNA on the following days and instances:

Monday and Tuesday – 10 a.m. to Noon / 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Wednesday – 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

A bus can be obtainable at Lejeune Hall all through the meet to return followers to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, however they may solely be allowed to return to the USNA throughout one of many above home windows.

Streaming

Fans unable to attend the meet can view it by the Navy Athletics Facebook web page.

Format

The preliminary rounds of the occasions will see the divers carry out six dives, with the highest 18 from that spherical advancing to the finals.  All scores from the preliminary rounds will carry over into the finals.

Zone A has the next allocation for the nationwide championship: ladies – six on the one meter and platform and 5 on the three meter; males – 4 on the one meter and platform and 5 on the three meter.

Women’s qualifying scores for the meet have been 265 factors on the one meter, 280 factors in three meter and 225 factors in platform diving.  The males wanted 300 factors to qualify in one-meter diving, 320 factors to advance in three-meter diving and 300 factors within the platform occasions.

Navy Preview

Navy’s zone qualifiers are Lily Barrett, Claire Ellish, Mackenzie Kim and Izzy Olson from the ladies’s staff together with Finn Gelbach, Luke Ogren and Anthony Sciulli from the lads’s staff.

Kim can be competing in her fourth zone championship and this yr has certified in every of the three occasions.  She was a finalist within the one meter (tenth), three meter (eleventh) and platform (18th) occasions on the 2024 meet and in addition positioned thirteenth in platform diving on the 2023 zone championship.  This yr, Kim recorded scores of 296.30 on the one meter, 323.90 on the three meter and 225.25 in platform diving to qualify for the zone meet. 

Barrett, Ellish and Olson all certified for his or her first zone meets and did so within the one-meter occasion.  Barrett posted a rating of 269.10, Ellish 269.75 and Olson 268.90 for the three to qualify.

Gelbach, Ogren and Sciulli every will compete within the two springboard occasions and Gelbach additionally certified in platform diving.  

Sciulli matches Kim as a four-time qualifier for the zone championship.  He has competed in each springboard occasions in every of his three prior seasons and in addition in platform diving on the 2024 occasion.  Sciulli posted scores of 332.30 factors to qualify on the one-meter board and 355.85 factors to compete within the three-meter occasion this season.

Gelbach was a finalist in two of his three occasions on the 2024 meet (seventh in platform, ninth in three meter) and in each occasions final season (seventh in three meter, twelfth in a single meter).  He certified for this yr’s meet with scores of 386.10 within the one-meter occasion, 370.75 on the three-meter board and 303.15 on platform diving.

Making his zone meet debut is the freshman Ogren along with his scores of 338.75 in a single meter and 347.55 in three meter. 

Schedule

Monday

10:30 a.m. – ladies’s 1M / prelims A

Noon – males’s 3M / prelims

3:15 p.m. – ladies’s 1M / prelims B

3:30 p.m. – males’s 3M / finals

6:15 p.m. – ladies’s 1M / finals

Tuesday

10:30 a.m. – ladies’s 3M / prelims A

Noon – males’s 1M / prelims

2:45 p.m. – ladies’s 3M / prelims B

3:30 p.m. – males’s 1M / finals

5:15 p.m. – ladies’s 3M / finals

Wednesday

11 a.m. – ladies’s platform / prelims adopted by finals

2:45 p.m. – males’s platform / prelims adopted by finals