Eight IU Divers Combine for 20 NCAA Bids

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Eight IU Divers Combine for 20 NCAA Bids

March 12, 2023

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Six Indiana swimming and diving athletes qualified for the NCAA Championships in the platform diving event on Saturday (March 11) at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships inside the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.

Eight IU men’s and women’s divers totaled 20 NCAA bids in the three diving events this week.

“It’s just a continuation of what happened at the Big Ten Championships with both the men and women bonding together as a team and using that energy to carry them through,” IU head diving coach Drew Johansen said. “It’s a really difficult event. The zone format is physically challenging, and they kept each other up. It was just a great day, and we’re looking forward to getting to NCAAs.”

All four men’s divers – redshirt senior Andrew Capobianco, sophomores Quinn Henninger and Carson Tyler and freshman Maxwell Weinrich – qualified in all three events, while four different women combined for the remaining eight bids.

“It’s a continuation of Andrew’s leadership with this young group,” Johansen said. “Especially Max, he had never been in a format like this before, but he watched his teammates do it, and that kept him going.”

MEN’S PLATFORM

Indiana’s men’s quartet earned four of the top five qualifying spots on platform, led by Capobianco’s second-place finish with a 792.25. Tyler (762.20) finished third, Henninger (743.40) fourth and Weinrich (724.20) fifth, all well within auto-qualifying territory.

WOMEN’S PLATFORM

Sophomore Skyler Liu earned her third NCAA bid as the top qualifier on the women’s platform with a 690.60 score; 40.25 points better than the second-place finisher. Liu posted scores of 70-plus on each of her final four dives in the final, with her fifth earning 79.20 points.

Junior Anne Fowler did just enough to qualify for her third event. As an automatic qualifier on both springboards, Fowler needed to place top-12 to earn the platform bid. With a 498.15 score, she placed 15.80 points above 13th place to secure her spot.

NCAA ZONE C CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS

MEN’S PLATFORM

  1. Andrew Capobianco – 792.25 (Automatic Qualifier)
  2. Carson Tyler – 762.20 (Automatic Qualifier)
  3. Quinn Henninger – 743.40 (Automatic Qualifier)
  4. Maxwell Weinrich – 724.40 (Automatic Qualifier)

WOMEN’S PLATFORM

  1. Skyler Liu – 690.60 (Automatic Qualifier)
  2. Anne Fowler – 498.15 (Qualifier)
  3. Megan Carter – 437.85 (Finalist)
  4. Margaret Rogers – 210.55
  5. Morgan Casey – 201.60

NCAA QUALIFIERS

Men

Andrew Capobianco – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform

Quinn Henninger – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform

Carson Tyler – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform

Maxwell Weinrich – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform

Women

Megan Carter – 1-Meter

Anne Fowler – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform

Alaina Heyde – 1-Meter

Skyler Liu – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, Platform

UP NEXT

Twenty-five Indiana student-athletes will compete at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships over the next two weeks. Twelve athletes from IU swimming and diving are qualified for the women’s national meet, taking place next week (March 15-18) in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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