MEET INFORMATION
Purdue Divers at the USA Diving Winter Nationals
Sunday, Dec. 8 to Sunday, Dec. 15 / Watch on YouTube
Qualifiers Dec. 8-10 (Sunday-Tuesday)
Individual Events Dec. 13-15 (Friday-Sunday)
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center / Bloomington, Ind.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As Indiana University hosts the USA Diving Winter Nationals in the annual end-of-the-year showcase's return to a Big Ten campus for the first time since 2021, the 11 active Boilermakers competing this year have opted to focus on the individual events.
Purdue is slated to have multiple entries in men's and women's 1-meter, 3-meter and 10-meter. Preliminaries and finals are on the same day for each gender in all three events, which are set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Action opened Sunday, Dec. 8 with the first of three days of qualifiers. Synchronized are on the schedule for Wednesday and Thursday.
The top 12 in the prelims advance to the finals. Scores are cumulative and carry over from prelims to finals.
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS AT USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
• Friday: Men's & Women's 1-Meter
• Saturday: Men's 3-Meter & Women's 10-Meter
• Sunday: Women's 3-Meter & Men's 10-Meter
BOILERMAKERS AT WINTER NATIONALS
• Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter, 10-Meter
• Ruth Anne McCranie – 1-Meter
• Max Miller – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Jordan Rzepka – 10-Meter
• Kaitlin Simons – 1-Meter, 3-Meter (Qualifier)
• Jenna Sonnenberg – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Kaden Springfield – 10-Meter
• Zach Welsh – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Tyler Wills – 10-Meter
• Avery Worobel – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Daryn Wright – 10-Meter
Among the Boilermakers competing in Bloomington, Jordan Rzepka, Daryn Wright, Sophie McAfee, Zach Welsh and Tyler Wills have all medaled at Winter Nationals in previous years. Wright and Wills both qualified for the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar with their performances at Winter Nationals last season. Wright has medaled individually on 10-meter at Winter Nationals each of the last three years, winning a medal of all three colors in the process.
This year, Winter Nationals will help determine USA Diving's qualifiers for the World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2025, which features events in Windsor, Canada (April 10-13) and Beijing, China (May 2-4). The 2025 World Aquatics Championships are July 11-Aug. 3 in Singapore.
Divers that have competed for Purdue at some point have combined to win 75 medals – 28 individual, 47 synchro – at the Winter Nationals since 2010, claiming at least one medal every year the meet has been held. That total of 75 includes medals won by divers before they officially enrolled at Purdue. Wright won her gold on 10-meter in Bloomington as a high school senior in 2021. Rzepka was the men's champion on the tower the following year as a sophomore at Purdue.
PURDUE'S DAILY ENTRIES & SCHEDULES AT WINTER NATIONALS
Cumulative Scoring, carrying over from Prelims to Finals
Sunday, Dec. 8 & Tuesday, Dec. 10
• Sunday: Women's 3-Meter Qualifier at 5 p.m. – Kaitlin Simons (210.65)
• Tuesday: Women's 1-Meter Qualifier at 5 p.m. – Kaitlin Simons (196.80)
Friday, Dec. 13
• Women's 1-Meter // Prelim at 10 a.m., Final at 5 p.m. – Jenna Sonnenberg (227.15, 12th in Prelim, Scratched from Final), Avery Worobel (225.30, 14th in Prelim), Kaitlin Simons (197.95, 23rd in Prelim), Ruth Anne McCranie (191.05, 26th in Prelim)
• Men's 1-Meter // Prelim at 12:15 p.m., Final at 6:10 p.m. – Zach Welsh (632.25, 9th in Final), Max Miller (299.90, 15th in Prelim)
Saturday, Dec. 14
• Men's 3-Meter // Prelim at 10 a.m., Final at 5 p.m. – Zach Welsh (674.70, 9th in Final), Max Miller (311.05, 16th in Prelim)
• Women's 10-Meter // Prelim at Noon, Final at 6:35 p.m. – Daryn Wright (655.65, Gold Medalist), Sophie McAfee (571.50, Bronze Medalist)
Sunday, Dec. 15
• Women's 3-Meter // Prelim at 10 a.m., Final at 4 p.m. – Avery Worobel (567.80, 3rd in Final, Silver Medalist), Sophie McAfee (543.10, 7th in Final), Jenna Sonnenberg (195.05, 25th in Prelim)
• Men's 10-Meter // Prelim at Noon, Final at 5:35 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (791.95, Silver Medalist), Tyler Wills (726.95, 8th in Final), Kaden Springfield (714.75, 9th in Final)
PURDUE MEDALISTS AT WINTER NATIONALS SINCE 2010
* – Before he or she officially enrolled at Purdue
2023 IN KNOXVILLE
• Brandon Loschiavo – Silver on 10-Meter, Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Rzepka)
• Daryn Wright – Silver on 10-Meter, Silver in Mixed 10-Meter Synchro (with Wills)
• Greg Duncan – Silver in 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
• Jordan Rzepka – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Loschiavo)
• Tyler Wills* – Gold in Mixed 10-Meter Synchro (with Baleigh Cranford), Silver in Mixed 10-Meter Synchro (with Wright)
• Zach Welsh* – Bronze in 3-Meter Synchro (with Jacob Welsh)
2022 IN MORGANTOWN
• Jordan Rzepka – Gold on 10-Meter
• Greg Duncan – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
• Daryn Wright – Bronze on 10-Meter
• Tyler Wills* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Josh Hedberg)
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)
Purdue Divers at the USA Diving Winter Nationals
Sunday, Dec. 8 to Sunday, Dec. 15 / Watch on YouTube
Qualifiers Dec. 8-10 (Sunday-Tuesday)
Individual Events Dec. 13-15 (Friday-Sunday)
Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center / Bloomington, Ind.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As Indiana University hosts the USA Diving Winter Nationals in the annual end-of-the-year showcase's return to a Big Ten campus for the first time since 2021, the 11 active Boilermakers competing this year have opted to focus on the individual events.
Purdue is slated to have multiple entries in men's and women's 1-meter, 3-meter and 10-meter. Preliminaries and finals are on the same day for each gender in all three events, which are set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Action opened Sunday, Dec. 8 with the first of three days of qualifiers. Synchronized are on the schedule for Wednesday and Thursday.
The top 12 in the prelims advance to the finals. Scores are cumulative and carry over from prelims to finals.
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS AT USA DIVING WINTER NATIONALS
• Friday: Men's & Women's 1-Meter
• Saturday: Men's 3-Meter & Women's 10-Meter
• Sunday: Women's 3-Meter & Men's 10-Meter
BOILERMAKERS AT WINTER NATIONALS
• Sophie McAfee – 3-Meter, 10-Meter
• Ruth Anne McCranie – 1-Meter
• Max Miller – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Jordan Rzepka – 10-Meter
• Kaitlin Simons – 1-Meter, 3-Meter (Qualifier)
• Jenna Sonnenberg – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Kaden Springfield – 10-Meter
• Zach Welsh – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Tyler Wills – 10-Meter
• Avery Worobel – 1-Meter, 3-Meter
• Daryn Wright – 10-Meter
Among the Boilermakers competing in Bloomington, Jordan Rzepka, Daryn Wright, Sophie McAfee, Zach Welsh and Tyler Wills have all medaled at Winter Nationals in previous years. Wright and Wills both qualified for the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar with their performances at Winter Nationals last season. Wright has medaled individually on 10-meter at Winter Nationals each of the last three years, winning a medal of all three colors in the process.
This year, Winter Nationals will help determine USA Diving's qualifiers for the World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2025, which features events in Windsor, Canada (April 10-13) and Beijing, China (May 2-4). The 2025 World Aquatics Championships are July 11-Aug. 3 in Singapore.
Divers that have competed for Purdue at some point have combined to win 75 medals – 28 individual, 47 synchro – at the Winter Nationals since 2010, claiming at least one medal every year the meet has been held. That total of 75 includes medals won by divers before they officially enrolled at Purdue. Wright won her gold on 10-meter in Bloomington as a high school senior in 2021. Rzepka was the men's champion on the tower the following year as a sophomore at Purdue.
PURDUE'S DAILY ENTRIES & SCHEDULES AT WINTER NATIONALS
Cumulative Scoring, carrying over from Prelims to Finals
Sunday, Dec. 8 & Tuesday, Dec. 10
• Sunday: Women's 3-Meter Qualifier at 5 p.m. – Kaitlin Simons (210.65)
• Tuesday: Women's 1-Meter Qualifier at 5 p.m. – Kaitlin Simons (196.80)
Friday, Dec. 13
• Women's 1-Meter // Prelim at 10 a.m., Final at 5 p.m. – Jenna Sonnenberg (227.15, 12th in Prelim, Scratched from Final), Avery Worobel (225.30, 14th in Prelim), Kaitlin Simons (197.95, 23rd in Prelim), Ruth Anne McCranie (191.05, 26th in Prelim)
• Men's 1-Meter // Prelim at 12:15 p.m., Final at 6:10 p.m. – Zach Welsh (632.25, 9th in Final), Max Miller (299.90, 15th in Prelim)
Saturday, Dec. 14
• Men's 3-Meter // Prelim at 10 a.m., Final at 5 p.m. – Zach Welsh (674.70, 9th in Final), Max Miller (311.05, 16th in Prelim)
• Women's 10-Meter // Prelim at Noon, Final at 6:35 p.m. – Daryn Wright (655.65, Gold Medalist), Sophie McAfee (571.50, Bronze Medalist)
Sunday, Dec. 15
• Women's 3-Meter // Prelim at 10 a.m., Final at 4 p.m. – Avery Worobel (567.80, 3rd in Final, Silver Medalist), Sophie McAfee (543.10, 7th in Final), Jenna Sonnenberg (195.05, 25th in Prelim)
• Men's 10-Meter // Prelim at Noon, Final at 5:35 p.m. – Jordan Rzepka (791.95, Silver Medalist), Tyler Wills (726.95, 8th in Final), Kaden Springfield (714.75, 9th in Final)
PURDUE MEDALISTS AT WINTER NATIONALS SINCE 2010
* – Before he or she officially enrolled at Purdue
2023 IN KNOXVILLE
• Brandon Loschiavo – Silver on 10-Meter, Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Rzepka)
• Daryn Wright – Silver on 10-Meter, Silver in Mixed 10-Meter Synchro (with Wills)
• Greg Duncan – Silver in 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
• Jordan Rzepka – Silver in 10-Meter Synchro (with Loschiavo)
• Tyler Wills* – Gold in Mixed 10-Meter Synchro (with Baleigh Cranford), Silver in Mixed 10-Meter Synchro (with Wright)
• Zach Welsh* – Bronze in 3-Meter Synchro (with Jacob Welsh)
2022 IN MORGANTOWN
• Jordan Rzepka – Gold on 10-Meter
• Greg Duncan – Gold in 3-Meter Synchro (with Downs)
• Daryn Wright – Bronze on 10-Meter
• Tyler Wills* – Gold in 10-Meter Synchro (with Josh Hedberg)
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)