Divers Set for Busy Week at Winter NationalsDivers Set for Busy Week at Winter Nationals

Divers Set for Busy Week at Winter Nationals

After winning 10 medals at the annual winter showcase a year ago, Purdue will be well represented again with 10 Boilermakers competing in a combined seven events at the USA Diving Winter National Championships.

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MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Divers at the USA Diving Winter Nationals

Monday, Dec. 12 to Sunday, Dec. 18
3-Meter Qualifiers Monday & Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ET
Synchro Events Wednesday & Thursday at 10 a.m. ET
Individual Events Friday to Sunday at 10 a.m. ET
The Aquatic Center at Mylan Park / Morgantown, West Virginia

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After winning 10 medals at the annual winter showcase a year ago, Purdue will be well represented again with 10 Boilermakers competing in a combined seven events at the USA Diving Winter National Championships.

Action is set for Monday through Sunday at West Virginia's The Aquatic Center at Mylan Park. The events Monday and Tuesday are qualifiers to advance to the preliminaries of the individual events Friday through Sunday.

A year ago, Winter Nationals returned from the first time since December 2019 and served as USA Diving's qualifier for the FINA World Championships, which were ultimately moved from May in Japan to June in Hungary. This year the USA Diving Senior National Championships are back on the calendar in May and that national showcase would serve as the World Championships (July 14-30 in Japan) qualifier. It would also mark the first time the Senior Nationals meet has been held since May 2019.

This week at Winter Nationals, 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.

BOILERMAKERS AT 2022 USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
Sam Bennett – 3-Meter
Greg Duncan (Alum) – 3-Meter, 3-Meter Synchro (with Tyler Downs)
Brandon Loschiavo (Alum) – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro (with Rzepka)
Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter, 10-Meter
Maggie Merriman – 10-Meter
Jordan Rzepka – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro (with Loschiavo)
Kaitlin Simons – 3-Meter (Tuesday Qualifier)
Jenna Sonnenberg – 3-Meter
Daryn Wright – 10-Meter, 10-Meter Synchro (with Anna Lemkin)
Maycey Vieta – 10-Meter

The Winter National Championships 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 drew to a close.

Divers that have competed for Purdue at some point have combined to win 63 medals – 24 individual, 39 synchro – at the Winter Nationals since 2010, claiming at least one medal every year the meet has been held. That total of 63 includes medals won by divers before they officially enrolled at Purdue. Among active Boilermakers, that includes Daryn Wright's victory on 10-meter last year as a high school senior plus accomplishments by current sophomores Sophie McAfee and Jordan Rzepka.

Wright, Maycey Vieta and Maggie Merriman all won medals on the tower at Winter Nationals last year in Bloomington. Rzepka was a two-time medalist. Purdue produced three of the top four finishers on both men's 1-meter and women's 10-meter a year ago.

In August, McAfee won silver on 10-meter at USA Diving's U.S. Open in Texas. Brandon Loschiavo and Rzepka also debuted as a 10-meter synchro team and finished as the runner-up in the two-team event. They're scheduled to compete together again this week.

Alumni Greg Duncan and Loschiavo are set to compete for the first time since winning medals at the FINA Diving World Cup the week of Oct. 20 to 23 in Berlin. Duncan won silver in 3-meter synchro and Loschiavo claimed bronze on 10-meter. However, the All-Americans did compete their lists – Duncan on 3-meter, Loschiavo on 10-meter – for scores from the judges during the Purdue Invitational last month.

PURDUE SCHEDULE AT 2022 USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
All Times Eastern
Schedule updated with results throughout the week


Monday, Dec. 12 at 5 p.m.
Men's 3-Meter Qualifier – Sam Bennett (304.50, 8th)
Women's 10-Meter Qualifier
Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 5 p.m.
Women's 3-Meter Qualifier – Kaitlin Simons (194.70, 13th)
Men's 10-Meter Qualifier
Wednesday, Dec. 14 – Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 4 p.m.
Men's 10-Meter Synchro – Brandon Loschiavo & Jordan Rzepka
Women's 3-Meter Synchro
Thursday, Dec. 15 – Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 4 p.m.
Men's 3-Meter Synchro – Greg Duncan (792.84 -- 382.38 Prelim, 410.46 Final; Gold Medalist)
Women's 10-Meter Synchro – Daryn Wright
Friday, Dec. 16
Women's 1-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m.
Men's 3-Meter Prelim at 12:15 p.m. – Greg Duncan (382.05, 4th), Sam Bennett (314.60, 18th)
Women's 1-Meter Final at 4 p.m.
Men's 3-Meter Final at 5:35 p.m. – Greg Duncan (360.05, 742.10 Total, 6th)
Saturday, Dec. 17
Women's 3-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m. – Sophie McAfee (233.90, 16th) Jenna Sonnenberg (188.25, 30th)
Men's 10-Meter Prelim at 12:40 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (402.10, 1st), Brandon Loschiavo
Women's 3-Meter Final at 4 p.m.
Men's 10-Meter Final at 5:35 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (451.40, 853.50 Total, Gold Medalist)
Sunday, Dec. 18
Men's 1-Meter Prelim at 10 a.m.
Women's 10-Meter Prelim at 12:50 p.m. – Daryn Wright (280.55, 2nd), Maggie Merriman (273.20, 3rd), Sophie McAfee (256.75, 5th), Maycey Vieta (240.00, 8th)
Men's 1-Meter Final at 3 p.m.
Women's 10-Meter Final at 4:50 p.m. – Daryn Wright (274.35, 554.90 Total, Bronze Medalist), Sophie McAfee (266.9, 523.65 Total, 5th), Maggie Merriman (231.90, 505.10 Total, 6th), Maycey Vieta (205.00, 445.00 Total, 12th)

PURDUE MEDALISTS AT WINTER NATIONALS SINCE 2010
* – Before he or she officially enrolled at Purdue
2021 IN BLOOMINGTON
Tyler Downs – Gold on 1-Meter, Gold on 3-Meter, Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Duncan), Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Rzepka)
Daryn Wright* – Gold on 10-Meter
Greg Duncan – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
Maycey Vieta – Silver on 10-Meter
Jordan Rzepka – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Downs), Bronze on 1-Meter
Maggie Merriman – Bronze on 10-Meter
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)