McCormick in prime 10 on each boards as 5 Oles dive at NCAA Region 1 Championships

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Five divers from the St. Olaf College girls’s swimming and diving group competed on the NCAA Division III Region 1 Diving Championships on Friday and Saturday at Kalamazoo College Natatorium.

First 12 months Alayna McCormick, sophomore Emma Haines, senior Zibby Hanifl, sophomore Erica Johnson, and sophomore Savannah Carr represented St. Olaf on the regional meet, giving the Oles the biggest contingent of girls’s divers on the meet.

McCormick posted St. Olaf’s prime scores of the regional on each the one-meter (395.70) and three-meter (410.25) boards and concluded the meet because the area’s No. 2 alternate for the NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships. McCormick’s scores ranked eighth and tenth, respectively, on the regional and second and third amongst first-year divers.

Haines positioned fifteenth within the one-meter occasion (370.30) and twenty ninth within the three-meter diving (308.25), whereas Hanifl posted top-20 scores on each boards. Hanifl was seventeenth on the decrease board (366.80) and 18th on the upper board (361.05). Johnson joined McCormick, Haines, and Hanifl within the prime 20 on the one-meter board (18th, 362.75), whereas sophomore Savannah Carr completed twenty sixth (347.30) and twenty fifth (342.15), respectively.

The diving nationwide qualifiers will formally be introduced on Monday, March 2 on NCAA.org.