Monday, March 10
Piscataway, NJ
10:00 AM/5:00 PM Finals
Liberty University
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NCAA Division I Zone A Diving Championships
Icard Claims 18th Place on 3-Meter on Day 1 at Zone Championships
3/10/2025 6:07:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Liberty sophomore Shannon Icard placed 18th on three-meter springboard, highlighting Liberty's day-one participation at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, Monday at Rutgers Aquatic Center.
Icard, senior Maddie Freece and sophomore Chloe LaCount are competing to earn a spot in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be held in Federal Way, Wash., March 19-22. LaCount will compete on one-meter tomorrow, while Icard will contest platform diving on Wednesday.
Icard earned a spot in the finals, scoring 277.35 points in morning prelims. That was good for 16th place in qualifying. A total of 18 divers advanced to finals, with the combined totals of all 12 dives counting towards final standings. Her total combined score for the day (535.00) finished 18th overall
Liberty's Top Performers
LaCount will compete on one-meter tomorrow. The preliminary rounds for one-meter diving begin at 10:15 a.m., with the top 18 scores advancing to finals.
Icard, senior Maddie Freece and sophomore Chloe LaCount are competing to earn a spot in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be held in Federal Way, Wash., March 19-22. LaCount will compete on one-meter tomorrow, while Icard will contest platform diving on Wednesday.
Icard earned a spot in the finals, scoring 277.35 points in morning prelims. That was good for 16th place in qualifying. A total of 18 divers advanced to finals, with the combined totals of all 12 dives counting towards final standings. Her total combined score for the day (535.00) finished 18th overall
Liberty's Top Performers
- So. Shannon Icard – Three-meter diving (12) – 535.00 (18th place overall)
- Sr. Maddie Freece – Three-meter diving (6) – 246.70 (38th place in prelims)
- So. Chloe LaCount – Three-meter diving (6) – 237.85 (t-44th place in prelims)
- During this week's three-day meet, the top 18 from prelims each day qualify for evening finals. The top six combined scores from prelims and finals in three-meter diving qualified for the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
- Four out of this year's three-meter qualifiers from Zone A to the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships came from Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights' Katarina Hoffman won in 714.85, while Rutgers' Holly Prasanto earned the sixth and final nationals spot in 626.05.
- This year, it took 274.80 points to qualify for the Zone A Diving final on three-meter springboard. Elizabeth Kaye of Virginia the top qualifying score today with 337.05.
- Today's event featured 71 divers. The divers represent schools from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
- Icard is the first Lady Flame since Freece in 2022 to qualify for an NCAA Zones final. Freece made the three-meter Zones final in both 2021 and 2022, earning a program-best finish of ninth at the 2021 NCAA Zone Championships.
- Icard's 12-dive score of 533.35 is the second-best three-meter 12-dive score in program history, trailing only Maddie Freece's 535.00 from the 2021 NCAA Zone Diving Championships.
- This is the seventh straight NCAA postseason appearance for Liberty's divers. The Lady Flames are attempting to send the first Liberty diver to compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
LaCount will compete on one-meter tomorrow. The preliminary rounds for one-meter diving begin at 10:15 a.m., with the top 18 scores advancing to finals.
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