MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Divers at the USA Diving Winter Nationals
Tuesday, Dec. 14 to Saturday, Dec. 18 / Daily at 10 a.m. ET
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With 11 Boilermakers competing in a combined eight events, Purdue is once again well represented as the USA Diving Winter Nationals returns to its customary mid-December place in the schedule while also being contested in Big Ten country at Indiana's aquatics center.
Action is set for Monday through Saturday at IU's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center in Bloomington. The championship meet will also serve as USA Diving's qualifier for the FINA World Championships (May 13-29 in Fukuoka, Japan) and World University Games (June 26-July 7 in Chengdu, China) in 2022.
Scores are cumulative and carry over from the prelims to the finals. The top 12 in the prelims of the individual events advance to the finals. The top two finishers in the individual events and the victorious team in the synchronized events earn the right to represent USA Diving at the FINA World Championships in May.
This year marks the sixth time since 2010 that a Big Ten Conference aquatic center is hosting the USA Diving Winter Nationals. However, it's the first time since 2015 that the meet is being held in the state of Indiana. The IU Natatorium in Downtown Indianapolis has hosted the last two U.S. Olympic Team Trials as well as the 2015 Winter Nationals.
Purdue's Greg Duncan won his Big Ten title on 3-meter at IU's aquatics center in February 2020. The Boilermakers will also compete in Bloomington on Jan. 22 for the annual rivalry dual with Indiana.
Sam Bennett, Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer, Tyler Downs, Sophie McAfee, Maggie Merriman, Jordan Rzepka, Jenna Sonnenberg and Maycey Vieta join Duncan as the nine active Purdue student-athletes scheduled to complete. Fresh off representing USA Diving at the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in Columbia, National Letter of Intent signee and incoming Boilermaker Daryn Wright (Plainfield, Ind.) is also entered this week in the women's 3-meter and 10-meter events.
Highlighted by Downs' victory on 3-meter that made him an Olympian, six of the active Boilermakers competing this week were finalists at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in June. Maycey Vieta (10-meter for Puerto Rico at the FINA Diving World Cup) joined Downs and Wright as those who have competed internationally this year. Meanwhile, Duncan and Pfeiffer both represented USA Diving at the 2019 World University Games in Italy.
Alumni David Colturi (2008-10) and Steven LoBue (2004-07) were prominent in the addition of Wednesday's high dive event to Winter Nationals, a 10-meter exhibition in which the competitors will enter the water feet first. It is intended to spotlight feet-first high diving. However, they won't be in attendance this week as they prepare to compete at the FINA High Diving Qualifier as part of the Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival in the United Arab Emirates. They're scheduled to compete from 27 meters Dec. 19 to 20, a meet that serves as the qualifier for the FINA World Championships. Colturi and LoBue have both won international medals in high diving and have been among the most prominent Americans competing on the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
The USA Diving Winter Nationals became a regular meet on the USA Diving calendar beginning in February 2010. The meet moved to December during the 2011-12 school year and was not held in December 2012 as that Olympic cycle came to a close.
Divers that have competed for Purdue at some point have combined to win 53 medals – 18 individual, 35 synchro – at the Winter Nationals since 2010, claiming at least one medal every year the meet has been held. That total of 53 includes medals won by divers before they officially enrolled at Purdue. That includes current freshmen Sophie McAfee, Jordan Rzepka and Downs, with Rzepka and Downs winning gold together in 10-meter synchro in 2018.
The Boilermakers won six medals in synchronized events at the 2019 Winter Nationals in Minneapolis, marking the last time the meet was held. David Boudia, Steele Johnson and Brandon Loschiavo were all victorious in synchronized events to clinch U.S. bids for the FINA Diving World Cup. However, the FINA Diving World Cup was postponed multiple times over the year that followed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
BOILERMAKERS AT THE 2021 USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
Sam Bennett – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Tyler Downs – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 10-Meter, 3-Meter Synchro (with Duncan), 10-Meter Synchro (with Rzepka)
Greg Duncan – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
Sophie McAfee – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 10-Meter
Maggie Merriman – 10-Meter
Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Jordan Rzepka – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
Jenna Sonnenberg – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Max Showalter (Alum) – 3-Meter
Daryn Wright (NLI Signee) – 3-Meter, 10-Meter
Maycey Vieta – 10-Meter
PURDUE'S DAILY SCHEDULE AT WINTER NATIONALS
All Times Eastern
Monday, Dec. 13
Mixed 10-Meter Synchro at 5:30 p.m.
Mixed 3-Meter Synchro at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 14 – Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 4 p.m.
Men's 10-Meter Synchro – Tyler Downs & Jordan Rzepka (722.64, 2nd in Final)
Women's 3-Meter Synchro
Wednesday, Dec. 15 – Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 4 p.m.
Men's 3-Meter Synchro – Tyler Downs & Greg Duncan (784.98, Event Winner)
Women's 10-Meter Synchro
High Diving Exhibition (Evening Start Time TBD)
Thursday, Dec. 16
Women's 1-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (232.90, 9th), Sophie McAfee (204.95, 23rd), Jenna Sonnenberg (193.90, 30th)
Men's 3-Meter Prelim at 12:50 p.m. – Tyler Downs (420.10, 2nd), Greg Duncan (398.70, 4th), Jordan Rzepka (349.50, 10th -- Scratched from Final), Sam Bennett (289.60, 29th), Max Showalter (244.85, 38th)
Women's 1-Meter Final at 5 p.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (477.10, 10th)
Men's 3-Meter Final at 6:15 p.m. – Tyler Downs (897.50, Event Winner), Greg Duncan (806.75, 5th)
Friday, Dec. 17
Women's 3-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (255.30, 8th), Jenna Sonnenberg (181.15, 37th), Sophie McAfee, Daryn Wright
Men's 10-Meter Prelim at 1 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (373.85, 4th), Tyler Downs
Women's 3-Meter Final at 4:30 p.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (499.20, 9th)
Men's 10-Meter Final at 5:45 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (761.80, 5th)
Saturday, Dec. 18
Men's 1-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Tyler Downs (385.95, 1st), Greg Duncan (341.50, 5th), Jordan Rzepka (333.30, 6th), Sam Bennett (290.05, 18th)
Women's 10-Meter Prelim at 12:35 p.m. – Maycey Vieta (284.90, 4th), Daryn Wright (275.30, 6th), Maggie Merriman (264.75, 9th), Sophie McAfee (205.30, 20th)
Men's 1-Meter Final at 3:55 p.m. – Tyler Downs, Greg Duncan, Jordan Rzepka
Women's 10-Meter Final at 5:45 p.m. – Maycey Vieta, Daryn Wright, Maggie Merriman
PURDUE MEDALISTS AT WINTER NATIONALS SINCE 2010
* – Before he or she officially enrolled at Purdue
2019 IN MINNEAPOLIS
David Boudia – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Johnson)
Steele Johnson – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Boudia), Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Loschiavo)
Brandon Loschiavo – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with David Dinsmore), Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Johnson)
Greg Duncan – Bronze in 3-Meter Synchro (with Grayson Campbell)
2018 IN ATLANTA
David Boudia – Gold on 3-Meter
Joe Cifelli – Silver on 1-Meter
Emily Bretscher – Bronze on 3-Meter
Brandon Loschiavo – Bronze on 10-Meter
Tyler Downs* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Jordan Rzepka), Silver on 10-Meter
Jordan Rzepka* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Tyler Downs)
2017 IN GREENSBORO
Greg Duncan* – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Grayson Campbell)
Sophie McAfee* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Olivia Rosendahl)
Joe Cifelli – Silver in 3-Meter Synchro (with Briadam Herrera)
2016 IN COLUMBUS
Steele Johnson – Gold on 3-Meter, Silver on 1-Meter
Sophie McAfee* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Olivia Rosendahl)
Ben Bramley* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Max Flory), Bronze on 10-Meter
Emily Bretscher* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Christy Cutshaw)
Sydney Couch & Morgan Meixner – Bronze in 3-Meter Synchro
Max Showalter – Bronze in 10-Meter Synchro (with Zach Cooper)
2015 IN INDIANAPOLIS
Steele Johnson – Gold on 10-Meter
David Boudia & Steele Johnson – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro
2014 IN COLUMBUS
Steele Johnson – Gold on 10-Meter
Brandon Loschiavo* – Silver on 10-Meter, Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Tarek Abdelghany)
2013 IN AUSTIN (HELD IN DECEMBER OF LISTED YEAR GOING FORWARD)
David Boudia – Gold on 3-Meter, Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Sam Dorman)
Steele Johnson* – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with David Dinsmore)
Casey Matthews – Silver on 3-Meter
Casey Matthews & Michelle Cabassol – Silver in 3-Meter Synchro
2012 IN KNOXVILLE (HELD IN DEC. 2011)
David Boudia – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Nick McCrory)
Mary Beth Dunnichay – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Haley Ishimatsu)
Steele Johnson* – Silver & Bronze in 10-Meter Synchro (Silver with Dashiell Enos, Bronze with Toby Stanley)
2011 IN IOWA CITY (HELD IN FEB. 2011)
David Boudia – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Nick McCrory)
Mary Beth Dunnichay* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Katherine Bell)
Steele Johnson* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Toby Stanley)
Michelle Cabassol* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Kaylea Arnett)
2010 IN COLUMBUS (HELD IN FEB. 2010)
David Boudia – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Thomas Finchum), Bronze on 3-Meter
Casey Matthews – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Kaylea Arnett)
Steele Johnson* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Dashiell Enos)
Purdue Divers at the USA Diving Winter Nationals
Tuesday, Dec. 14 to Saturday, Dec. 18 / Daily at 10 a.m. ET
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center / Bloomington, Indiana
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With 11 Boilermakers competing in a combined eight events, Purdue is once again well represented as the USA Diving Winter Nationals returns to its customary mid-December place in the schedule while also being contested in Big Ten country at Indiana's aquatics center.
Action is set for Monday through Saturday at IU's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center in Bloomington. The championship meet will also serve as USA Diving's qualifier for the FINA World Championships (May 13-29 in Fukuoka, Japan) and World University Games (June 26-July 7 in Chengdu, China) in 2022.
Scores are cumulative and carry over from the prelims to the finals. The top 12 in the prelims of the individual events advance to the finals. The top two finishers in the individual events and the victorious team in the synchronized events earn the right to represent USA Diving at the FINA World Championships in May.
This year marks the sixth time since 2010 that a Big Ten Conference aquatic center is hosting the USA Diving Winter Nationals. However, it's the first time since 2015 that the meet is being held in the state of Indiana. The IU Natatorium in Downtown Indianapolis has hosted the last two U.S. Olympic Team Trials as well as the 2015 Winter Nationals.
Purdue's Greg Duncan won his Big Ten title on 3-meter at IU's aquatics center in February 2020. The Boilermakers will also compete in Bloomington on Jan. 22 for the annual rivalry dual with Indiana.
Sam Bennett, Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer, Tyler Downs, Sophie McAfee, Maggie Merriman, Jordan Rzepka, Jenna Sonnenberg and Maycey Vieta join Duncan as the nine active Purdue student-athletes scheduled to complete. Fresh off representing USA Diving at the inaugural Junior Pan American Games in Columbia, National Letter of Intent signee and incoming Boilermaker Daryn Wright (Plainfield, Ind.) is also entered this week in the women's 3-meter and 10-meter events.
Highlighted by Downs' victory on 3-meter that made him an Olympian, six of the active Boilermakers competing this week were finalists at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in June. Maycey Vieta (10-meter for Puerto Rico at the FINA Diving World Cup) joined Downs and Wright as those who have competed internationally this year. Meanwhile, Duncan and Pfeiffer both represented USA Diving at the 2019 World University Games in Italy.
Alumni David Colturi (2008-10) and Steven LoBue (2004-07) were prominent in the addition of Wednesday's high dive event to Winter Nationals, a 10-meter exhibition in which the competitors will enter the water feet first. It is intended to spotlight feet-first high diving. However, they won't be in attendance this week as they prepare to compete at the FINA High Diving Qualifier as part of the Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival in the United Arab Emirates. They're scheduled to compete from 27 meters Dec. 19 to 20, a meet that serves as the qualifier for the FINA World Championships. Colturi and LoBue have both won international medals in high diving and have been among the most prominent Americans competing on the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
The USA Diving Winter Nationals became a regular meet on the USA Diving calendar beginning in February 2010. The meet moved to December during the 2011-12 school year and was not held in December 2012 as that Olympic cycle came to a close.
Divers that have competed for Purdue at some point have combined to win 53 medals – 18 individual, 35 synchro – at the Winter Nationals since 2010, claiming at least one medal every year the meet has been held. That total of 53 includes medals won by divers before they officially enrolled at Purdue. That includes current freshmen Sophie McAfee, Jordan Rzepka and Downs, with Rzepka and Downs winning gold together in 10-meter synchro in 2018.
The Boilermakers won six medals in synchronized events at the 2019 Winter Nationals in Minneapolis, marking the last time the meet was held. David Boudia, Steele Johnson and Brandon Loschiavo were all victorious in synchronized events to clinch U.S. bids for the FINA Diving World Cup. However, the FINA Diving World Cup was postponed multiple times over the year that followed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
BOILERMAKERS AT THE 2021 USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
Sam Bennett – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Tyler Downs – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 10-Meter, 3-Meter Synchro (with Duncan), 10-Meter Synchro (with Rzepka)
Greg Duncan – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
Sophie McAfee – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 10-Meter
Maggie Merriman – 10-Meter
Emily (Bretscher) Pfeiffer – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Jordan Rzepka – 1-Meter, 3-Meter, 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
Jenna Sonnenberg – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
Max Showalter (Alum) – 3-Meter
Daryn Wright (NLI Signee) – 3-Meter, 10-Meter
Maycey Vieta – 10-Meter
PURDUE'S DAILY SCHEDULE AT WINTER NATIONALS
All Times Eastern
Monday, Dec. 13
Mixed 10-Meter Synchro at 5:30 p.m.
Mixed 3-Meter Synchro at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 14 – Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 4 p.m.
Men's 10-Meter Synchro – Tyler Downs & Jordan Rzepka (722.64, 2nd in Final)
Women's 3-Meter Synchro
Wednesday, Dec. 15 – Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 4 p.m.
Men's 3-Meter Synchro – Tyler Downs & Greg Duncan (784.98, Event Winner)
Women's 10-Meter Synchro
High Diving Exhibition (Evening Start Time TBD)
Thursday, Dec. 16
Women's 1-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (232.90, 9th), Sophie McAfee (204.95, 23rd), Jenna Sonnenberg (193.90, 30th)
Men's 3-Meter Prelim at 12:50 p.m. – Tyler Downs (420.10, 2nd), Greg Duncan (398.70, 4th), Jordan Rzepka (349.50, 10th -- Scratched from Final), Sam Bennett (289.60, 29th), Max Showalter (244.85, 38th)
Women's 1-Meter Final at 5 p.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (477.10, 10th)
Men's 3-Meter Final at 6:15 p.m. – Tyler Downs (897.50, Event Winner), Greg Duncan (806.75, 5th)
Friday, Dec. 17
Women's 3-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (255.30, 8th), Jenna Sonnenberg (181.15, 37th), Sophie McAfee, Daryn Wright
Men's 10-Meter Prelim at 1 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (373.85, 4th), Tyler Downs
Women's 3-Meter Final at 4:30 p.m. – Emily Pfeiffer (499.20, 9th)
Men's 10-Meter Final at 5:45 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (761.80, 5th)
Saturday, Dec. 18
Men's 1-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Tyler Downs (385.95, 1st), Greg Duncan (341.50, 5th), Jordan Rzepka (333.30, 6th), Sam Bennett (290.05, 18th)
Women's 10-Meter Prelim at 12:35 p.m. – Maycey Vieta (284.90, 4th), Daryn Wright (275.30, 6th), Maggie Merriman (264.75, 9th), Sophie McAfee (205.30, 20th)
Men's 1-Meter Final at 3:55 p.m. – Tyler Downs, Greg Duncan, Jordan Rzepka
Women's 10-Meter Final at 5:45 p.m. – Maycey Vieta, Daryn Wright, Maggie Merriman
PURDUE MEDALISTS AT WINTER NATIONALS SINCE 2010
* – Before he or she officially enrolled at Purdue
2019 IN MINNEAPOLIS
David Boudia – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Johnson)
Steele Johnson – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Boudia), Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Loschiavo)
Brandon Loschiavo – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with David Dinsmore), Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Johnson)
Greg Duncan – Bronze in 3-Meter Synchro (with Grayson Campbell)
2018 IN ATLANTA
David Boudia – Gold on 3-Meter
Joe Cifelli – Silver on 1-Meter
Emily Bretscher – Bronze on 3-Meter
Brandon Loschiavo – Bronze on 10-Meter
Tyler Downs* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Jordan Rzepka), Silver on 10-Meter
Jordan Rzepka* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Tyler Downs)
2017 IN GREENSBORO
Greg Duncan* – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Grayson Campbell)
Sophie McAfee* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Olivia Rosendahl)
Joe Cifelli – Silver in 3-Meter Synchro (with Briadam Herrera)
2016 IN COLUMBUS
Steele Johnson – Gold on 3-Meter, Silver on 1-Meter
Sophie McAfee* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Olivia Rosendahl)
Ben Bramley* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Max Flory), Bronze on 10-Meter
Emily Bretscher* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Christy Cutshaw)
Sydney Couch & Morgan Meixner – Bronze in 3-Meter Synchro
Max Showalter – Bronze in 10-Meter Synchro (with Zach Cooper)
2015 IN INDIANAPOLIS
Steele Johnson – Gold on 10-Meter
David Boudia & Steele Johnson – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro
2014 IN COLUMBUS
Steele Johnson – Gold on 10-Meter
Brandon Loschiavo* – Silver on 10-Meter, Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Tarek Abdelghany)
2013 IN AUSTIN (HELD IN DECEMBER OF LISTED YEAR GOING FORWARD)
David Boudia – Gold on 3-Meter, Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Sam Dorman)
Steele Johnson* – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with David Dinsmore)
Casey Matthews – Silver on 3-Meter
Casey Matthews & Michelle Cabassol – Silver in 3-Meter Synchro
2012 IN KNOXVILLE (HELD IN DEC. 2011)
David Boudia – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Nick McCrory)
Mary Beth Dunnichay – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Haley Ishimatsu)
Steele Johnson* – Silver & Bronze in 10-Meter Synchro (Silver with Dashiell Enos, Bronze with Toby Stanley)
2011 IN IOWA CITY (HELD IN FEB. 2011)
David Boudia – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Nick McCrory)
Mary Beth Dunnichay* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Katherine Bell)
Steele Johnson* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Toby Stanley)
Michelle Cabassol* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Kaylea Arnett)
2010 IN COLUMBUS (HELD IN FEB. 2010)
David Boudia – Gold on 10-Meter, Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Thomas Finchum), Bronze on 3-Meter
Casey Matthews – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Kaylea Arnett)
Steele Johnson* – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Dashiell Enos)