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Daryn Wright Season 2024-25

PositionDIVING
YearJunior
HometownPlainfield, Ind.
USA DIVING BIO

2024-25 / AS A JUNIOR
• Big Ten Medalist 
(Bronze on Platform)
• All-American (3-Meter, Platform)
USA Diving Winter Nationals Medalist (Gold on 10-Meter)
• NCAA Championships Qualifier (3-Meter, Platform)
• Academic All-District
• Big Ten Diver of the Week 
(Nov. 27, Dec. 18, Jan. 15, Jan. 29)

2023-24 / AS A SOPHOMORE
• OLYMPIAN (10-Meter for USA)
• World Aquatics Championships Qualifier (10-Meter for USA)
• All-American (Platform)
• NCAA Championship Qualifier (3-Meter, Platform)
• USA Diving Winter Nationals Bronze Medalist (10-Meter)
• Big Ten Bronze Medalist (Platform)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
• CSCAA Scholar All-American
• Academic All-Big Ten

2022-23 / AS A FRESHMAN
• NCAA Championships Qualifier (Platform & 3-Meter)
• USA Diving Winter Nationals Bronze Medalist (10-Meter)
• Big Ten Diver of the Week (Jan. 11)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Jan. 11 and Jan. 25)
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Competed in all three diving events for much of the season
Set Purdue freshman records in 1-meter (321.60) and 3-meter (354.53) while sweeping the springboards in the dual win at Illinois, eclipsing marks that had stood for over a decade
• Both scores were team season bests and good for 10th place in team history
Won the consolation finals
• Moved into 12th place in team history with season-best score of 309.60 on platform at Zones
• Finished top 10 in all three diving events at the Big Ten Championships, sweeping the consolation finals of the springboard events and placing second in the platform consolation final
Accounted for 57 team points at Big Tens, good for second on the team
• Medaled at the USA Diving Winter Nationals for the second year in a row
Finished top five on 3-meter (third) and platform (fourth) at Zones to easily qualify for the NCAA Championships
• Teamed up with Sophie McAfee and Maggie Merriman to help the Boilermakers finish third in the exhibition team diving at Big Tens after the same trio won the event at the Purdue Invitational
• Also ranked second on the squad with 46 team points at the Purdue Invite, finishing top six in all three events highlighted by second on 1-meter and third on 3-meter
Event winner on platform and runner-up on 1-meter in the Senior Day dual vs. Indiana
Swept the springboard events at the Indiana Intercollegiates
• Victorious on 1-meter in the two-day dual at Rutgers

BEFORE PURDUE
Senior national champion on 10-meter at the 2021 USA Diving Winter Nationals
Qualified for the FINA World Championships with her victory at Winter Nationals as an 18-year-old
Finalist on the tower at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, placing seventh in the prelim, 10th in the semifinal and ninth in the final
Won silver in 10-meter synchro with Olympian Amy Cozad Magna at 2019 USA Diving Senior Nationals
Two-time USA Diving junior national champion on 10-meter
Won gold on 1-meter and 10-meter, silver on 3-meter at the 2021 Junior Pan American Championships
Two-time Indiana state runner-up on 1-meter as an underclassman before opting to focus on competing for her club, the Indiana International School of Diving
Won conference, sectional and regional titles both years competing for Plainfield High School
Set an 11-dive school record as a sophomore
USA Diving Tier 1 member and six-time Tier 3 member
Competed in three events at the 2018 Junior World Championships
Four-time Junior Pan Am Games qualifier
Helped Plainfield win sectional titles in 2018 and 2019
National Honor Society

PERSONAL
Major: Retail Management
Born in Plainfield, Indiana
Parents are Todd and Christie
Family also includes older siblings Andie and Derek
Both siblings attended Purdue, as well as her father, grandma, aunt and uncle
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Freshman
2022-23

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Sophomore
2023-24

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