Full Meet Results / Dive-by-Dive Scoring
INDIANAPOLIS - Steele Johnson and Adam Soldati were recognized with individual honors as Purdue men's swimming & diving finished 13th to match its best showing in the modern era on the final night of the NCAA Championships on Saturday.
Johnson finished second in a platform diving, earning his third All-America honor of the week and sixth career. But he came up just one place shy of becoming the first man ever to sweep the diving the three diving in the same year at the NCAA Championships. After winning NCAA titles on 1-meter and 3-meter, he was named the NCAA Diver of the Year for the second time. Soldati was recognized as the Diving Coach of the Year for the fifth time.
Marat Amaltdinov finished seventh in the championship final of the 200 breaststroke, earning his first career All-America award and becoming the Purdue men's first full-fledged All-America honoree in a swimming event since Giordan Pogioli (200 breast) in 2006.
Brandon Loschiavo finished fourth in platform diving to close out a successful freshman season. Max Showalter was an honorable mention All-American in platform diving for the second year in a row. Including Joe Cifelli's sixth-place showing in 1-meter diving Thursday, all five Boilermakers that competed at NCAAs this season accounted for team points and earned All-America honors.
Here are a few @PurdueMSwimDive highlights from tonight's NCAA's in Indy w/ 3 more 1st-team All-Americans! #BoilerUp https://t.co/pxTylOE9Fi
-- Purdue Athletics (@PurdueSports) March 26, 2017
Led by Johnson's 57 points, Purdue finished in 13th place in the team scoring with 106.5 points. The Boilermakers also finished 13th in 2009 and 2010, the program's best finish of the modern era of the NCAA Championships. Purdue finished in the top 15 at NCAAs four times from 1952 to 1962, but did not reach the double-figure mark for team points during those years.
Johnson finished second on platform to David Dinsmore of the University of Miami. Dinsmore took third on 10-meter behind Purdue alumnus David Boudia and Johnson at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, which were also held at the IU Natatorium in Downtown Indianapolis. In 2011, Boudia swept the springboard events but finished second to four-time NCAA platform champion Nick McCrory, preventing Boudia from sweeping the diving events. Six years later, a sweep of the three diving events NCAAs has still never been accomplished after Dinsmore bested Johnson on platform.
When he won a 3-meter NCAA title Friday, Johnson joined Boudia as the only divers since platform was added to the NCAA Championships in 1990 to win all three events over the course of a collegiate career. Johnson joined Boudia, a three-time honoree, as the only student-athletes to win the College Swimming Coaches Association of America's Diver of the Year award multiple times since 2005. Johnson also claimed the award in 2015.
Check out what @Steele_Johnson had to say after being named 2017 NCAA Diver of the Year. #BoilerUp https://t.co/cejcE1TITG
-- Purdue Swim-Dive (@PurdueMSwimDive) March 26, 2017
With Loschiavo also finishing fourth, the Boilermakers had multiple All-Americans in the championship final of platform diving for the fifth time since 2009. The Purdue men have had at least one diving All-American in 12 of the last 13 years.
Johnson got off to a bit of a slow start in the afternoon prelims, but posted a list score of 416.75 to finish fifth. He improved on list score by 94.25 points in the championship final. But Dinsmore was even better, winning the NCAA title with a list score of 528.2 while improving on his prelim score by 85.15 points. Dinsmore had the top score among the eight-diver field in three of the six rounds of the championship final, earning no fewer than 81 points on any of his six dives. Johnson kept pace but was not able to pull even again after a score of 77.55 in round three. Dinsmore did not compete in either springboard event this week at NCAAs.
Showalter finished tied for third in the consolation final of platform diving, taking 11th overall. He had list scores of 341.8 in the prelims and 356.8 in the afternoon consolation. Loschiavo was second in the prelims with a score for 467.45 to clinch All-American honors, but his list score dipped to 445.74 in the championship final after poor scores in rounds one and six. The freshman did have the best scores among the eight-diver field in rounds two and four.
Amaltdinov was seeded in the seventh in the 200 breast and finished fifth in the prelims with a Purdue season-best time of 1:52.79 to clinch a berth in the championship final. He took seventh in the final with a time of 1:53.04.
The Boilermakers finished second among the eight Big Ten teams that scored at the NCAA Championships this year.
All five of Purdue's NCAA Championships qualifiers are expected to return for the 2018 season.
What an incredible season🚂 so proud of this team and everything we've accomplished🎉 BOILER UPâ¤️ pic.twitter.com/98INzu5rja
-- Lexi (@flexinlex_) March 26, 2017
PURDUE RESULTS ON SATURDAY AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Platform Diving
Steele Johnson, 506.05 -- Finished 2nd (17 Points)
Brandon Loschiavo, 467.45 (Prelim Score) -- Finished 4th (14 Points)
Max Showalter, 356.8 -- Finished T-3rd in Consolation Final (5.5 Points)
200 Breast
Marat Amaltdinov, 1:52.79 (Prelim Time) -- Finished 7th (12 Points)