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Junior Shannon Icard will compete on one-meter springboard, Monday. Icard will contest three-meter springboard on Tuesday together with junior Kayla Walsh and freshman Mercy Goodnight. On Wednesday, Icard will compete on platform.
Liberty’s divers might be competing to earn spots within the 2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships, which might be held in Atlanta, Ga., March 18-21.
The NCAA Zone Championships will start on Monday with ladies’s one-meter springboard and can proceed on Tuesday with three-meter springboard. Platform might be contested on Wednesday. Monday’s one-meter prelims might be at 10:30 a.m. (prelim A) and three:15 p.m. (prelim B), with the one-meter last scheduled for six:15 p.m. On Tuesday, three-meter prelims might be held at 10:30 a.m. (prelim A) and a couple of:45 p.m. (prelim B), with the three-meter last at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday’s platform prelims are scheduled at 11 a.m., with the ultimate instantly following.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live outcomes might be accessible by means of DiveMeets.com. Live video might be accessible on Navy’s athletics Facebook web page.
What’s at Stake
Zone A will obtain six {qualifications} to the NCAA Championships in one-meter, 5 on three-meter and 6 on platform, based mostly off of final 12 months’s efficiency by Zone A divers at nationals.
The prime 18 divers from morning prelims will qualify for night finals, with all scores carrying over. Each of these 18 divers will full their full allotment of dives within the night, and the highest mixed scores from morning and night will advance to nationals.
There might be 93 entrants in one-meter diving, 70 in three-meter and 19 on platform.
Last 12 months’s prime two finishers from Zone in one-meter, Virginia’s Elizabeth Kaye and Rutgers’ Holly Prasanto, have graduated. Those who positioned third by means of sixth respectively, all return, in Bailee Sturgill and Katerina Hoffman of Rutgers, Yale’s Lily Horenkamp and Harvard’s Nina Janmyr. The sixth place finisher on one-meter on the 2025 Zone A Championship scored 571.25.
Rutgers’ Katerina Hoffman returns because the defending Zone A champion on three-meter, whereas Sephora Ford of Rutgers is again after ending third final 12 months. Bailee Sturgill and Princeton’s Charlotte Martinkus additionally return as top-five finishers from 2025. It took 626.80 to qualify for nationals on three-meter from Zone A in 2025.
Last 12 months’s prime qualifier on platform from Zone A was Bailee Sturgill of Rutgers with 510.30 factors. Katerina Hoffman of Rutgers was sixth on platform, scoring 491.05.
How They Qualified
Icard might be making her third profession look at NCAA Zone Championships, and that is the eight straight 12 months that Liberty might be represented at Zones. Walsh will even seem at Zones for the third 12 months in a row, as she made the Zone B Championships every of the final two seasons whereas competing for Auburn. Icard earned finals appearances on each three-meter and platform.
Icard, the Most Outstanding Female Diver of the 2025 ASUN Championships, completed fifth on platform and sixth on one-meter on the 2026 American Conference Championship. She earned Zone-qualifying scores on all three boards on the TYR ’85 Invite. The junior’s prime one-meter scoring (267.15) got here at UNC Asheville on Jan. 16, whereas she scored season bests on each three-meter (282.40) and platform (242.45) on the American Championship.
Goodnight has had a standout freshman season. She was named the American Conference Freshman Diving Athlete of the Week on Nov. 25. That got here after punching her ticket to Zones on three-meter with 294.40 on the TYR ’85 Invite. Her 294.40 rating was the very best three-meter end for a Liberty diver this season. Goodnight competed in two B Finals on the convention meet.
Walsh had a breakout meet on the 2026 American Conference Championship, inserting fourth on platform and 5 on three-meter. She earned her spot at Zones in three-meter by scoring 293.90 within the A Final. Her rating one three-meter that night was the second greatest by a Lady Flame to date this season. She joined Icard as Liberty divers to compete in two A Finals on the American Championship this 12 months.
Liberty’s divers try to qualify for the 2026 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships, held March 18-21 in Atlanta, Ga.
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