Diving

Passages: Mary Elliot, Ripon College Diver, 22 Mary Elliott, a diver at Division III Ripon College in Wisconsin, died in a motor vehicle accident on May 9. Elliott was 22 years old. Elliot was a native of Bayside, Wisc., who attended Whitefish Bay Dominican High School. She was majoring in criminal ...

High Dive World Champion James Lichtenstein Signs Sponsorship Deal with International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) has announced that it has signed a sponsorship deal with American high diver James Lichtenstein. A ceremony was held on Thursday night at the Fo...

Dick Kimball, the legendary University of Michigan and Team USA Diving coach died at age 91. Wolverine Diving posted a tribute to the late coach on social media. "With saddened heart, we lost a diving great today, Dick Kimball. Our coaches at Wolverine Diving have so many fond memories of Kimball, a...

NFHS Allows States to Determine Number of High School Meet Dives The National Federation of High School Associations on Wednesday announced that state high school associations can change the number of dives at championship meets starting in the 2026-27 season. The change is one of five proposals bro...

Texas A&M Diving Coach Jay Lerew to Retire; Jeff Bro Promoted Legendary Texas A&M diving coach Jay Lerew has retired from the program after 17 seasons, the school announced on Tuesday. Assistant coach Jeff Bro will be elevated to head coach under director of swimming and diving Blaire Anderson. Lere...

Jessica Parratto, Olympic Silver Medal-Winning Diver, Retires Jessica Parratto, a three-time Olympic diver who won silver at the Tokyo Games, announced on Monday that she is retiring. Parratto made the announcement on social media. View this post on Instagram ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Texas A&M’s Emilio Trevino Wins Platform Title Texas A&M was close to a platform title last year with two divers in the top four. It took a new face to get them over the top. Emilio Trevino earned the program’s first NCAA platform title Saturday night, his score of 465.30 t...

NCAA Men's Championships: Collier Dyer Wins Historic 3-Meter for Missouri It’s been a long climb for Collier Dyer. In four years at the University of Missouri, the senior was in his ninth career NCAA Championships event on Friday night at Georgia Tech. Never before had he finished in the top eight. ...

NCAA Men's Championships: Luke Sitz Makes History for SMU with 1-Meter Crown SMU’s Luke Sitz scored 428.10 points Saturday to win 1-meter diving gold at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Sitz was second after prelims but scored 428.10 in finals. That was nearly 16 points better than Miami ...

Amid Format Changes, NCAA Divers Mixed on New Split Finals The reaction to changes in the swimming portion of the NCAA Division I women’s championships last week was almost uniformly negative. The feeling about changes in the diving program were more mixed. The 2026 edition of NCAAs included no B fi...

Indiana Diving Coach Drew Johansen Releases Letter Defending NCAA Changes Long-time Indiana diving coach Drew Johansen released an open letter on Tuesday defending the changes to the NCAA Championships, calling them the result of “forward thinking”. Johansen backed the thought process that went into...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Stanford Freshman Ellie Cole Sets NCAA Record on Platform Ellie Cole’s first NCAAs as a member of Stanford is going to be hard to top. The Australian Olympian scored 399.80 points, topping the NCAA record from 2013 and beating the field by more than 50 points, a huge boos...

NCAA Women's Championships: Sophie Verzyl Delivers Late for 3-Meter Gold Thursday night at Georgia Tech, Chiara Pellacani waited on the deck and watched – or didn’t watch – as Sophie Verzyl dove last with a chance to pass her for the NCAA title on 1-meter. Friday, the roles were reversed on 3-meter,...

NCAA Women’s Championships: Chiara Pellacani Holds off Sophie Verzyl by .25 Points on 1-Meter There was very little separating Chiara Pellacani and Sophie Verzyl all day Thursday on 1-meter diving at the NCAA Championships. In the end, the margin was a minuscule .25 seconds. South Carolina’s Verzyl ...

Micki King Memoir a Look into the Life of a Diving, Air Force Pioneer Micki King has been a pioneer for decades. She was an Olympic gold medalist in diving, after coming back from hitting the board four years earlier. King also broke boundaries in the Air Force, was the first female head of USA Divi...

Amid Unrest in Mexico, World Aquatics Cancels Diving Event in Zapopan World Aquatics on Thursday announced it is cancelling a World Cup Diving event scheduled in March in Zapopan, Mexico. The decision was made, the organization said in a statement, in consultation with Aquatics Mexico, the Mexican F...

Carsten Vissering, Former Northwestern Diver Finish in Top 20 of Olympic Bobsled Former USC swimmer Carsten Vissering made his Olympic debut on Saturday and finished 11th in the men’s four-man bobsled Sunday at the Milan Cortina Olympics. Vissering, a Pac-12 champion in breaststroke and an NCAA rela...

World Aquatics, IOC Approve 2028 Olympic Diving Qualification Pathway The International Olympic Committee this week approved the diving qualification pathway at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The process was developed via collaboration from the IOC Sports Department, World Aquatics’ technical div...

World Aquatics High Diving World Cup to Return to Fort Lauderdale in 2026 The World Aquatics High Diving World Cup schedule for 2026 was announced on Tuesday, with a stop in Fort Lauderdale included. The facility at the International Swimming Hall of Fame will host the World Cup May 15-17, concurren...

'We’re the Recruits Living This Nightmare'; How House vs. NCAA Reshaped College Recruiting A Firsthand Look at How House vs. NCAA is Changing Recruiting Away From D-I Programs The New College Recruiting Reality: House vs. NCAA and the Future of Olympic Sports Op-Ed: This article is an op-ed. The vie...