Sitz Collects Silver Medal On 3-Meter Springboard At NCAA Championships

DAY THREE RESULTS

ATLANTA (SMU) – SMU diver Luke Sitz completed second on 3-meter on the 2026 NCAA DI Swimming & Diving Championships on Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia, incomes First-Team All-America honors and breaking this system file twice in in the future.

In the finals, Sitz recorded a mark of 495.30, the very best rating in SMU historical past. The sophomore improves upon his earlier private better of 442.20, which he set within the preliminary spherical earlier as we speak. At the 2025 NCAA DI Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships, a then-freshman Sitz put up a rating of 355.85 to complete seventeenth. 

Tonight’s efficiency was an astounding 139.45 factors increased than the 12 months prior. The All-American’s rating was catapulted by his 307C, a Reverse 3 1/2 Somersault Tuck, that earned him a 92.75.

Sitz provides this accolade to an already profitable journey to his second NCAA Championships. On 1-meter, he took dwelling his first-ever nationwide championship within the occasion after throwing down a rating of 428.10. The diver nabbed the Mustangs’ first NCAA Championship in over a decade, with golfer Bryson DeChambeau incomes a title again in 2015. The final time a Mustang earned an NCAA title in diving was in 1990, when Scott Donie earned gold on 3-meter and on platform.

Freshman Grant Cates completed twenty first on 3-meter, scoring a 355.50. Junior Jack Berube competed in his first occasion on the NCAA Championships, swimming within the 100 again. The Texas native beat his earlier faculty file by 0.01, throwing down a time of 45.73. Berube tied for thirty fourth total.

UP NEXT

The Mustangs will compete within the closing day of competitors on the NCAA DI Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships on March 28 at McAuley Aquatic Center. Berube will seem within the preliminaries of the 200 again at 9:40 a.m. CT, and the SMU relay squad will swim the 400 free relay at 10:20 a.m. CT. Freshman Grant Cates will end his NCAA debut on platform starting at 11 a.m. CT. Finals for all occasions will start at 5 p.m. CT.

ORDER OF EVENTS

Saturday, March 28

200-yard particular person medley

100-yard freestyle

200-yard butterfly

200-yard backstroke

400-yard freestyle relay

Platform diving