Nation-high 9 Maverick divers emerge from NCAA Qualification meet

EVANSVILLE, Indiana— A national-leading 9 Colorado Mesa University divers efficiently emerged from the NCAA Division II Pre-Championship Qualification Meet, held Tuesday right here on the Deaconess Aquatics Center.
 

The 5 Maverick ladies and 4 CMU males will now be a part of their swimming counterparts within the official NCAA Division II Swimming  & Diving Championships, which acquired underway with the 800-yard freestyle relays on Tuesday night time.
 
One diving occasion might be contested on every of the subsequent 4 days— Wednesday by way of Sunday.
 
The Maverick males acquired out to a sizzling begin in Tuesday’s qualification meet as Ryan Campbell received the 1-meter competitors with a rating of 325.85 factors from six elective dives.  Giani Benoit (285.00), David Roethlisberger (282.15) and Jax Juarros (280.10) all completed within the high seven of the 39-man discipline with fifth, sixth and seventh place finishes.

Thanks to ending within the high 9, the stress was off as they had been all assured of qualification for the championship meet.

 

Benoit, a freshman in his nationwide meet debut, then took sixth within the 3-meter qualification portion of the occasion with 288.35 factors, to steer the Maverick contingent.  Roethlisberger was eighth with 281.50 factors whereas Campbell took tenth with 272.95 factors.

 

Campbell and Roethlisberger are each returning second staff all-Americans whereas Juarros was capable of qualify for the official championship for the primary time.

 

The 4 Mavericks might be amongst the 18 males that may compete within the X-meter occasion on Wednesday and the 3-meter occasion on Friday.

 

Meanwhile, the ladies began on the 3-meter as three Mavs in Mimi Licht, Emma Lence and Kenya Meyer took eighth, ninth and tenth to make sure championship qualification as top-11 finishers.  Licht scored 238.05 factors whereas Lence had 237.15 factors to edge Meyer’s complete of 237.10 factors on six dives.

 

In the second half, the ladies moved to the 1-meter board the place Meyer took second out of 39 divers with 252.85 factors whereas Lence was sixth with 235.15.  Licht took eighth with 231.90 factors.

 

Because there have been a number of divers who completed amongst the highest 11 on each boards, there have been 9 remaining spots within the championship meet, handed out primarily based on the finishes in every half of the competitors on an alternating foundation.

 

CMU’s Talia Datilio and Jenna Hurley snagged two of these spots as Datilio completed 15^th on the 3-meter with 225.60 factors whereas Hurley was 16^th on the 3-meter with 214.65 factors and 17^th on the 1-meter with 211.90 factors

 

Datilio additionally completed 20^th on the 1-meter with 200.70 factors whereas

 

Meyer and Licht are returning first staff all-Americans whereas Datilio was a second staff honoree final yr.  Hurley and Lence emerged from the qualification meet for the primary time and might be amongst the 22 ladies who will compete within the 3-meter occasion on Thursday and on the 1-meter occasion on Saturday.

 

The Mavericks additionally had 4 different divers compete on Tuesday.

 

Freshman Asa Keim took 25^th on the 1-meter with 232.95 factors and was 32^nd on the 3-meter with 217.70 factors.  Ty Mitton positioned 27^th on the 1-meter with 231.50 factors earlier than taking 19^th on the 3-meter with 250.30 factors.  Aiden Coon was 25^th on the 3-meter with 240.75 factors after taking 34^th on the 1-meter with 207.90 factors.

 

Juarros took 27^th on the 3-meter with 235.00 factors.

 

Juli Holt completed 26^th in each occasions with 192.50 factors on the 1-meter and 192.15 on the 3-meter.

 

Diving preliminaries will start at 1 p.m. CDT (Noon Mountain) in a 11-dive format every day with the comfort finals to find out the ninth by way of 16^th place finishers going down half-hour following the conclusion of these finals.

 

The championship finals might be held throughout the night session, which will get underway at 5:30 p.m. CDT (4:30 p.m. Mountain) every day.

 

Swimming preliminaries start at 10 a.m. CDT (9 a.m. Mountain) every morning.

 

A live stream of all the action can be seen on NCAA.com and overall meet results can be found here.

 

The dive-by-dive outcomes can be discovered on DiveMeets.com.