Indiana Diving Scores Big on Friday Hoosiers Place Four in Championship Finals

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The Hoosier men’s and women’s diving teams sent four to Championship Finals on the Friday from the diving well at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic Center at Purdue.

MEN’S 3-METER DIVE

After winning the 2021 Big Ten Championship on the 1-Meter springboard, redshirt junior Andrew Capobianco finished one spot off the podium in the 3-meter event with an NCAA A Standard mark of 414.80.

 

Junior Cole VanDevender set a career-best mark of 390.20 in the preliminary round to reach the final round. He rounded out the night finishing sixth in the event with a score of 384.05. Both are NCAA B Standard marks.

 

Senior Mory Gould charted the second-highest score in the preliminary round with an NCAA A Standard mark of 395.20. He missed his two middle dives, but finished strong with two dives sniffing the 70-point range to finish in eighth with 340.10 points.

 

Senior Seamus Scotty finished 16th out of the Consolation Final with a score of 307.80. He hit an NCAA C Standard mark of 333.30 in the prelims to advance to the finals.

WOMEN’S PLATFORM DIVE

Freshman Tarrin Gilliland improved on her seed entering the Championship Final with a career-best, NCAA A Standard score of 269.75 in the Platform competition. She placed seventh.

 

NOTABLES

  • The men’s 3-meter competition marked the first time this season in which Capobianco did not win a springboard event during the 2002-21 season. He held a record of 5-0 on the springboard in the regular season and won the 1-meter competition on Thursday night.
  • Hoosier divers registered a total of nine NCAA Standard Scores, including three A Standard marks.
  • Gilliland, competing in her first Platform meet of the season, notched an NCAA A Standard time in the finals.

 

RESULTS

MEN’S 3-METER DIVE

  1. Andrew Capobianco – 414.80 (NCAA A Standard)
  2. Cole VanDevender – 384.05 (NCAA B Standard)
  3. Mory Gould – 340.10 (NCAA C Standard)
  4. Seamus Scotty – 307.80

 

WOMEN’S PLATFORM DIVE

  1. Tarrin Gilliland – 269.75 (NCAA A Standard, Career Best)
  2. Anne Fowler – 198.40
  3. Alyssa Wang – 187.30

 

UP NEXT

The diving portion of the competition will wrap up with the third and final day of action. The men will tackle the platform dive and the women will compete on the 1-meter springboard.

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