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3 Boilers Set to Represent Purdue Women at NCAAs

Purdue to be represented in the mile plus all 3 diving events in Atlanta

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by Ben Turner

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MEET INFORMATION 
Purdue Women at the NCAA Championships 
Wednesday to Saturday, March 18-21 / ESPN+
Swimming Events: Prelims at 10 a.m., Finals at 6 p.m.
Springboard Diving Prelims at 12:15 p.m.
Platform Diving Prelims at 12 p.m.
Diving Consolation Finals at TBA (5:15 p.m. last year)
Springboard Diving Championship Finals at 7:10 p.m.
Platform Diving Championship Final at 7 p.m.
McAuley Aquatic Center / Atlanta, Ga.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A trio of Boilermakers are set to represent Purdue Women’s Swimming & Diving in a quartet of events on the national stage of the NCAA Championships.

Divers Avery Worobel (1-meter & 3-meter) and Daryn Wright (3-meter & platform) join distance swimmer Reagan Mattice (1650 freestyle) to give the Purdue women NCAAs qualifiers in both swimming and diving events in the same year for the first time since 2019.

With the mile moving to Wednesday in the revamped event format debuting this season at the NCAA Championships, a Boilermaker will be competing on all four days of the national championship meet.

Wright is closing out her collegiate career out as a four-year NCAAs qualifier (2023-26). Worobel qualified in both springboard events for the second year in a row and his halfway to joining Wright in that exclusive club of four-year qualifiers.

Mattice has finished strong as a senior and is set to become the first Boilermaker to race in the mile at NCAAs since 2018. She has enjoyed a time drop of one minute and 12.28 seconds from her 2021 season (17:26.98) at Zionsville High School through her top-10 time (16:14.70) at Big Tens last month that earned her a berth at the NCAA Championships.

The top 16 finishers in the preliminaries clinch All-America honors and advance to finals. The mile remains a timed-finals event where swimmers only compete once. Mattice is in heat 2 Wednesday morning.

The top eight compete for the national championship in the evening finals. Diving remains the final individual event of the finals sessions and now begins in a window of approximately 7 to 7:15 p.m. Consolation finals were held at 5:15 p.m. ET the last few seasons as the first event of the evening sessions after previously being held immediately after prelims for many years.

PURDUE SCHEDULE AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Wednesday, March 18 in 1650 Freestyle (Heat 2) – Reagan Mattice
• Thursday, March 19 on 1-Meter – Avery Worobel
• Friday, March 20 on 3-Meter – Avery Worobel, Daryn Wright
• Saturday, March 21 on Platform – Daryn Wright

Purdue has had at least one women's diver earn All-America honors at the NCAA Championships in 20 of the last 21 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 eight consecutive NCAA Championships dating back to 2017.

Wright is a four-time All-American, qualifying for the championship final of both 3-meter and platform last season. She became just the Boilermakers’ fifth 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), Emily Bretscher (2021) and Sophie McAfee (2024). Bretscher, McAfee and Wright have teamed up to give Purdue three such female achievers this decade.

In her debut at NCAAs last season, Worobel was an honorable mention All-American while finishing 12th overall 1-meter. She returns to the national championship meet this week as a Big Ten champion on 3-meter.

Wright has finished fourth (2025) and fifth (2024) on platform at NCAAs the last two seasons. The four-time Big Ten medalist was 12-for-12 in career top-10 finishes at the Big Ten Championships, finishing top five in all three events each of her upperclassman seasons.

Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center is hosting both the women’s and men’s NCAA Championships over the final two weekends of March. It’s the second year in a row and third time since 2022 that the same facility is hosting both national championship meets – the McAuley Aquatic Center also pulled double duty in 2022.

Purdue has 11 qualifiers – divers Max Miller, Kaden Springfield, Zach Welsh and Tyler Wills plus swimmers Evan Mackesy, Lucas Byrd Jānis Dzirkalis, Alex Hotta and Nathaniel Thomas – for the men’s NCAA Championships next week in Atlanta.