Bearcat trio competes at NCAA Zone A Diving Meet

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Freshman Samuel Pikofsky-Christiansen, junior Dylan Norby and senior Elizabeth Tirado took half within the NCAA Zone A Diving Meet this week at Kinney Natatorium on the campus of the U.S. Naval Academy.

There are 5 NCAA Zone Diving Meets within the nation every year – based mostly on geographic location. To qualify for an NCAA Zone Meet, a diver will need to have met a normal rating in both the one- or three-meter diving competitors throughout the present season. 

The girls’s qualifying normal scores are 265 within the one-meter occasion and 280 within the three-meter competitors. Tirado hit the qualifying marks twice throughout the 2025-26 season.

On the boys’s aspect, the qualifying requirements are 300 factors for the one-meter competitors and 320 for the three-meter occasion. Pikofsky, Norby and sophomore Jacob Koclanis all met the marks throughout the seasons. Koclanis, nonetheless, was injured on the America East Championships two weeks in the past and was unable to compete on the NCAA Zone Meet. 

This marks the primary time since 2022 that Binghamton divers have superior to the NCAA Zone Meet. In addition, the 4 qualifiers this season (women and men mixed) is the very best whole in program historical past.

“This season was one for the books,” diving coach Heather Colby mentioned. “We have been endlessly proud of our ability to stick together in times of hardship and in triumph. We have been so committed to the team and sport. It’s been a gift and I can’t wait for next season.”

There have been 93 whole girls’s divers and 70 males’s divers representing many of the conferences within the Northeast on the NCAA Zone A Meet. 

Pikofsky Christiansen gained the one-meter title on the previous America East meet whereas Norby, Koclanis and Tirado have been all finalists on the meet. In addition, Tirado, Pikofsky-Christiansen and Norby have been every named the America East Diver of the Week a number of instances throughout the 2025-26 season.