NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Women at the NCAA Championships
Thursday to Saturday, March 20-22 / ESPN+
Diving Prelims at 3 p.m. ET
Diving Consolation Finals at 8:15 p.m. ET
Diving Championship Finals at approx. 10:15 p.m. ET
Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center / Federal Way, Wash.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With multiple qualifiers in all three diving events, Purdue Women's Swimming & Diving is once again well represented on the springboards and the tower at the NCAA Championships this week in the Pacific Northwest.
Sophie McAfee, Jenna Sonnenberg, Avery Worobel and Daryn Wright earned the right to compete at the national championship meet. McAfee is closing out her collegiate career out as a four-year NCAAs qualifier (2022-25). Sonnenberg (2023, 2024, 2025) and Wright (2023-25) both made it for the third time. Worobel qualified in both springboard events as a freshman.
Sonnenberg is one 17 divers nationally this season to qualify for NCAAs in all three diving events, accomplishing the feat for the first time. She is Purdue's first female diver to achieve the distinction since McAfee did it as a freshman in 2023.
The top 16 finishers in the preliminaries clinch All-America honors and advance to finals. The top eight compete for the national championship in the evening finals. Diving is traditionally the final individual event of the finals sessions and begins in a window of approximately 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. ET. Consolation finals for diving remain at 8:15 p.m. as the first event of the evening sessions.
PURDUE SCHEDULE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Thursday, March 20 on 1-Meter – Jenna Sonnenberg, Avery Worobel
• Friday, March 21 on 3-Meter – Sophie McAfee, Jenna Sonnenberg Avery Worobel, Daryn Wright
• Saturday, March 22 on Platform – Sophie McAfee, Jenna Sonnenberg, Daryn Wright
Purdue has had at least one women's diver earn All-America honors at the NCAA Championships in 19 of the last 20 years the meet has been held. That run dates back to 2004, with 2012 being the only year a Purdue diver did not qualify for the national championship meet.
The Purdue women have had a championship finalist on the tower in seven consecutive NCAA Championships dating back to 2017. In 2021 and 2024, the Boilermakers accounted for three of the eight championship finalists on platform at NCAAs. McAfee and Wright were part of the trio last season.
A year ago, McAfee finished fourth on 3-meter and eighth on platform at NCAAs as one of only two divers (with LSU's Monsterrat Lavenant) to be a championship finalist on both a springboard and the tower. McAfee is a four-time All-American and last season became just the Boilermakers' fourth female diver to be a full-fledged (top 8) All-American on a springboard and the platform in the same year – joining Carrie McCambridge (2005), Amanda Miller (2007) and Emily Bretscher (2021).
Wright also scored on both 3-meter and platform last season at NCAAs en route to becoming an Olympian for Team USA on 10-meter over the summer. At NCAAs, she was fifth on platform and fifth in the consolation final (13th overall) on 3-meter – earning her first All-America accolades. As a junior, Wright is 9-for-9 in career top-10 finishes at the Big Ten Championships, finishing top five in all three events this year. She's a two-time bronze medalist on the tower at Big Tens.
Wright (gold) and McAfee (bronze) both medaled on 10-meter at the USA Diving Winter Nationals in December and were also top three in the event at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in June.
Worobel won silver on 3-meter and placed fourth on 1-meter in an impressive debut at the Big Ten Championships last month. She finished top two in both events at the Zone C Championships to qualify for NCAAs. She'll be looking to become Purdue's first female diver to be an All-American on both springboards in the same year since Mary Beth Dunnicahy in 2016. Excluding 2020*, Kara Cook (2008) and Casey Matthews (2009) are Purdue's only female divers to earn All-America accolades as true freshmen.
Sonnenberg was an NCAAs qualifier on 3-meter in 2022 and the platform last season. She began competing on platform for Purdue in January 2022 and earned her bid to NCAAs a year ago via a timely top-10 showing in the event at Zones. This month she qualified for NCAAs by finishing sixth on 1-meter at Zones. Her top-12 showings on 3-meter and platform at Zones then added to her program at the national championship meet.
The Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center is hosting both the women's and men's NCAA Championships over the final two weekends of March. It marks the first time ever the women's national championship meet has been held west of the Rocky Mountains.
This year also marks the first time since 2022 that the same facility is hosting both national championship meets – with Georgia Tech's McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta pulling double duty three years ago. Located near the southern shoreline of Puget Sound, the Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center is 20 miles northeast of Tacoma and 30 miles south of Seattle. The facility previously hosted the men's NCAA Championships in 2008 and 2012. Purdue head diving coach David Boudia also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in Federal Way when the Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center hosted diving's U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
Purdue has six qualifiers – divers Jordan Rzepka, Max Miller, Kaden Springfield, Zach Welsh and Tyler Wills plus swimmer Brady Samuels – for the men's NCAA Championships next week in the Pacific Northwest.
*All-American honors were bestowed upon deserving student-athletes/likely NCAAs qualifiers by the CSCAA after the national championship meets were canceled in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Maycey Vieta was among them as a true freshman.
Purdue Women at the NCAA Championships
Thursday to Saturday, March 20-22 / ESPN+
Diving Prelims at 3 p.m. ET
Diving Consolation Finals at 8:15 p.m. ET
Diving Championship Finals at approx. 10:15 p.m. ET
Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center / Federal Way, Wash.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With multiple qualifiers in all three diving events, Purdue Women's Swimming & Diving is once again well represented on the springboards and the tower at the NCAA Championships this week in the Pacific Northwest.
Sophie McAfee, Jenna Sonnenberg, Avery Worobel and Daryn Wright earned the right to compete at the national championship meet. McAfee is closing out her collegiate career out as a four-year NCAAs qualifier (2022-25). Sonnenberg (2023, 2024, 2025) and Wright (2023-25) both made it for the third time. Worobel qualified in both springboard events as a freshman.
Sonnenberg is one 17 divers nationally this season to qualify for NCAAs in all three diving events, accomplishing the feat for the first time. She is Purdue's first female diver to achieve the distinction since McAfee did it as a freshman in 2023.
The top 16 finishers in the preliminaries clinch All-America honors and advance to finals. The top eight compete for the national championship in the evening finals. Diving is traditionally the final individual event of the finals sessions and begins in a window of approximately 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. ET. Consolation finals for diving remain at 8:15 p.m. as the first event of the evening sessions.
PURDUE SCHEDULE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Thursday, March 20 on 1-Meter – Jenna Sonnenberg, Avery Worobel
• Friday, March 21 on 3-Meter – Sophie McAfee, Jenna Sonnenberg Avery Worobel, Daryn Wright
• Saturday, March 22 on Platform – Sophie McAfee, Jenna Sonnenberg, Daryn Wright
| 2025 NCAAs QUALIFIERS IN ALL 3 DIVING EVENTS (17) | |
| • Lauren Burch, Stanford • Bayleigh Cranford, Texas • Viviana Del Angel, Minnesota • Alejandra Estudillo, Texas • Lanie Gutch, North Carolina • Katerina Hoffman, Rutgers • Elizabeth Kaye, Virginia • Camyla Monroy, Florida |
• Ella Roselli, Indiana • Maria Sanchez-Moreno, Arkansas • Jenna Sonnenberg, Purdue • Bailee Sturgill, Rutgers • Aranza Vazquez Montano, North Carolina • Holly Waxman, Utah • Lily Witte, Indiana • Emilie Moore, Stanford • Paola Pineda, Ohio State |
Purdue has had at least one women's diver earn All-America honors at the NCAA Championships in 19 of the last 20 years the meet has been held. That run dates back to 2004, with 2012 being the only year a Purdue diver did not qualify for the national championship meet.
The Purdue women have had a championship finalist on the tower in seven consecutive NCAA Championships dating back to 2017. In 2021 and 2024, the Boilermakers accounted for three of the eight championship finalists on platform at NCAAs. McAfee and Wright were part of the trio last season.
A year ago, McAfee finished fourth on 3-meter and eighth on platform at NCAAs as one of only two divers (with LSU's Monsterrat Lavenant) to be a championship finalist on both a springboard and the tower. McAfee is a four-time All-American and last season became just the Boilermakers' fourth female diver to be a full-fledged (top 8) All-American on a springboard and the platform in the same year – joining Carrie McCambridge (2005), Amanda Miller (2007) and Emily Bretscher (2021).
Wright also scored on both 3-meter and platform last season at NCAAs en route to becoming an Olympian for Team USA on 10-meter over the summer. At NCAAs, she was fifth on platform and fifth in the consolation final (13th overall) on 3-meter – earning her first All-America accolades. As a junior, Wright is 9-for-9 in career top-10 finishes at the Big Ten Championships, finishing top five in all three events this year. She's a two-time bronze medalist on the tower at Big Tens.
Wright (gold) and McAfee (bronze) both medaled on 10-meter at the USA Diving Winter Nationals in December and were also top three in the event at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in June.
Worobel won silver on 3-meter and placed fourth on 1-meter in an impressive debut at the Big Ten Championships last month. She finished top two in both events at the Zone C Championships to qualify for NCAAs. She'll be looking to become Purdue's first female diver to be an All-American on both springboards in the same year since Mary Beth Dunnicahy in 2016. Excluding 2020*, Kara Cook (2008) and Casey Matthews (2009) are Purdue's only female divers to earn All-America accolades as true freshmen.
Sonnenberg was an NCAAs qualifier on 3-meter in 2022 and the platform last season. She began competing on platform for Purdue in January 2022 and earned her bid to NCAAs a year ago via a timely top-10 showing in the event at Zones. This month she qualified for NCAAs by finishing sixth on 1-meter at Zones. Her top-12 showings on 3-meter and platform at Zones then added to her program at the national championship meet.
The Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center is hosting both the women's and men's NCAA Championships over the final two weekends of March. It marks the first time ever the women's national championship meet has been held west of the Rocky Mountains.
This year also marks the first time since 2022 that the same facility is hosting both national championship meets – with Georgia Tech's McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta pulling double duty three years ago. Located near the southern shoreline of Puget Sound, the Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center is 20 miles northeast of Tacoma and 30 miles south of Seattle. The facility previously hosted the men's NCAA Championships in 2008 and 2012. Purdue head diving coach David Boudia also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in Federal Way when the Weyerhaesuer King County Aquatic Center hosted diving's U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
Purdue has six qualifiers – divers Jordan Rzepka, Max Miller, Kaden Springfield, Zach Welsh and Tyler Wills plus swimmer Brady Samuels – for the men's NCAA Championships next week in the Pacific Northwest.
*All-American honors were bestowed upon deserving student-athletes/likely NCAAs qualifiers by the CSCAA after the national championship meets were canceled in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Maycey Vieta was among them as a true freshman.