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NCAA Zone C Diving Championships
Five Michigan Women Gear Up for NCAA Zone C Diving Championships
3/12/2019 10:38:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
THIS WEEK
Thu-Sat., March 14-16 -- at NCAA Zone C Diving Championships (West Lafayette, Ind.)
Thursday, March 14 --Three-meter springboard, 1 p.m.
Friday, March 15 -- One-meter springboard, 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 16 -- 10-meter platform, 11 a.m.
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Five members of the University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team will attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championships at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, scheduled for Thursday through Saturday (March 14-16) at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Indiana. The NCAA Championships will be held the following week (March 20-23) in Austin, Texas.
The divers heading to West Lafayette include sophomore Nikki Canale, sophomore Christy Cutshaw, freshman Allie Klein, sophomore Camryn McPherson and redshirt freshman Margaret Rogers. The women will do three-meter on Thursday (1 p.m.), one-meter on Friday (1 p.m.) and platform on Saturday (11 a.m.).
NCAA Championships Qualifying Procedures
The top five female divers from each event at their respective zone diving meet will be eligible to compete at the NCAA Championships. Additional place finishers in each event at each zone will be eligible based on the number of student-athletes from that zone who finished in the top 16 in that event at the previous year's NCAA Championships. All eligible divers must have achieved the zone qualifying score prior to the NCAA Championships in all events they wish to participate.
For the women, in total, Zone C is allotted nine spots on one-meter, eight spots on three-meter, and 12 spots on platform. Any diver that qualifies for the NCAA Championships will be allowed to optionally enter any other event(s) at the championships, provided that the diver finished in the top 12 at the same zone meet and has achieved the zone qualifying score for that event prior to the NCAA Championships.
NCAA Zone Diving History
2018 (Columbus, Ohio)
Nikki Canale: 8th on 3M (566.60), 13th on 1M (538.10), 17th on PL (417.85)
Christy Cutshaw: 6th on PL (542.85), 13th on 3M (551.45), 25th on 1M (252.75)
Quick Hits
• The Wolverines have sent at least two divers to each of the last three NCAA Championships. Nikki Canale and Christy Cutshaw both qualified last year as freshmen.
• Under the direction of diving coach Mike Hilde, four divers have scored points and earned All-America or All-America honorable mention status at the NCAA Championships since 2015: Carey Chen in 2015 (8th on PL), Kristen Hayden in 2017 (11th on PL), Allie Murphy in 2017 (11th on 3M) and Christy Cutshaw (10th on PL in 2018).
• Christy Cutshaw improved her previously-held school record on platform at the Big Ten Championships, raising it to 304.25.
• This marks the first NCAA Zone C Diving Championships appearance for Margaret Rogers, who got her qualifying score on platform on the final day of the Big Ten Championships.
• The divers will be coached this week by graduate assistant Dani VanderZwaag, an alumna and former diver from 2015-18. She will coach in place of diving coach Mike Hilde, whose wife, Kathryn, gave birth to twin girls last week.
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