Liberty to Send 3 Divers to NCAA Zone Championships
3/9/2025 11:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
Liberty will send three divers to compete in the 2025 NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, held next week at Rutgers Aquatic Center.
Senior Maddie Freece and sophomores Shannon Icard and Chloe LaCount will all compete on three-meter springboard, Monday. The following day, LaCount will contest one-meter, while Icard will compete on platform, Wednesday.
Liberty's divers will be competing to earn spots in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be held in Federal Way, Wash., March 19-22.
The NCAA Zone Championships will begin on Monday with women's three-meter springboard and will continue on Tuesday with one-meter springboard. Platform will be contested on Wednesday. Monday's three-meter prelims will be at 10 a.m. (prelim A) and 2:30 p.m. (prelim B), with the three-meter final scheduled for 5 p.m. On Tuesday, one-meter prelims will be held at 10:15 a.m. (prelim A) and 3 p.m. (prelim B), with the one-meter final at 6 p.m. Wednesday's platform prelims are scheduled at 9:30 a.m., with the final at 11:30 a.m.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live results will be available through DiveMeets.com. Video streaming will be available on YouTube.
What's at Stake
Zone A will receive seven qualifications to the NCAA Championships in one-meter, six on three-meter and five on platform, based off of last year's performance by Zone A divers at nationals.
The top 18 divers from morning prelims will qualify for evening finals, with all scores carrying over. Each of those 18 divers will complete their full allotment of dives in the evening, and the top combined scores from morning and evening will advance to nationals.
There will be 82 entrants in one-meter diving, 73 in three-meter and 25 on platform.
Four of last year's top five from Zone A in one-meter are back this year, in Elizabeth Kaye of Virginia, Marialis Kwak of Buffalo, Rutgers' Holly Prasanto and Harvard's Nina Janmyr. Kaye, Kwak, Yale's Gloria Lai and Harvard's Amy Wotovich are all back after qualifying for NCAA's on three-meter last year. On platform, all five of last year's national qualifiers from Zone A return (Pitt's Mariana Osorio Mendoza and Jess Vega, Elizabeth Kaye of Virginia, Harvard's Remi Edvalson and West Virginia's Abigail Sullivan).
Back-to-back one-meter Zone champion, Daphne Wils of Penn State, has graduated. She scored 611.30 to win last year. Nina Janmyr's 571.35 secured the fifth and final qualification to nationals form Zone A.
Last year, Virginia's Elizabeth Kaye won three-meter for the second year in a row, scoring 642.45. Fifth place went to Penn State's Daphne Wils (609.50).
Last year's top qualifier on platform from Zone A was Mariana Osorio Mendoza of Pitt, with 573.00 points. Abigail Sullivan of West Virginia was fifth on platform, scoring 465.45.
How They Qualified
Freece will make her fourth appearance at NCAA Zone Championships, and this is the seventh straight year that Liberty will be represented at Zones. In 2021, Freece finished a program-best ninth on three-meter and 14th on one-meter at the Zone Championships. Icard competed at Zones last year, while LaCount will be making her Zone debut.
Freece is a two-time CCSA Women's Diver of the Year. She finished second on both one-meter and three-meter at the 2025 ASUN Championships. Freece is a nine-time conference medalist, including four-time individual event winner. The senior earned her spot at Zones for three-meter diving by scoring 299.05 points in the ASUN three-meter A Final.
Icard was named the Most Outstanding Female Diver of the 2025 ASUN Championships, winning both one-meter (267.25) and three-meter (310.70) diving. She punched her ticket to Zones on all three boards with her scores from the ASUN meet. With platform diving held as an exhibition at the ASUN Championships, she scored 253.00 to earn her third different board qualification for Zones. Icard will focus on three-meter and platform this week.
LaCount qualified for the Zone A Diving Championships during the regular season, scoring 276.45 on one-meter and 283.65 on three-meter at the TYR '85 Invite in Novembers. She earned a pair of A Finals appearances at the 2025 ASUN Championships, finishing fourth on three-meter and sixth on one-meter.
Liberty's divers are attempting to qualify for the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, held March 19-22 in Federal Way, Wash.
Senior Maddie Freece and sophomores Shannon Icard and Chloe LaCount will all compete on three-meter springboard, Monday. The following day, LaCount will contest one-meter, while Icard will compete on platform, Wednesday.
Liberty's divers will be competing to earn spots in the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be held in Federal Way, Wash., March 19-22.
The NCAA Zone Championships will begin on Monday with women's three-meter springboard and will continue on Tuesday with one-meter springboard. Platform will be contested on Wednesday. Monday's three-meter prelims will be at 10 a.m. (prelim A) and 2:30 p.m. (prelim B), with the three-meter final scheduled for 5 p.m. On Tuesday, one-meter prelims will be held at 10:15 a.m. (prelim A) and 3 p.m. (prelim B), with the one-meter final at 6 p.m. Wednesday's platform prelims are scheduled at 9:30 a.m., with the final at 11:30 a.m.
How to Follow the Lady Flames
Live results will be available through DiveMeets.com. Video streaming will be available on YouTube.
What's at Stake
Zone A will receive seven qualifications to the NCAA Championships in one-meter, six on three-meter and five on platform, based off of last year's performance by Zone A divers at nationals.
The top 18 divers from morning prelims will qualify for evening finals, with all scores carrying over. Each of those 18 divers will complete their full allotment of dives in the evening, and the top combined scores from morning and evening will advance to nationals.
There will be 82 entrants in one-meter diving, 73 in three-meter and 25 on platform.
Four of last year's top five from Zone A in one-meter are back this year, in Elizabeth Kaye of Virginia, Marialis Kwak of Buffalo, Rutgers' Holly Prasanto and Harvard's Nina Janmyr. Kaye, Kwak, Yale's Gloria Lai and Harvard's Amy Wotovich are all back after qualifying for NCAA's on three-meter last year. On platform, all five of last year's national qualifiers from Zone A return (Pitt's Mariana Osorio Mendoza and Jess Vega, Elizabeth Kaye of Virginia, Harvard's Remi Edvalson and West Virginia's Abigail Sullivan).
Back-to-back one-meter Zone champion, Daphne Wils of Penn State, has graduated. She scored 611.30 to win last year. Nina Janmyr's 571.35 secured the fifth and final qualification to nationals form Zone A.
Last year, Virginia's Elizabeth Kaye won three-meter for the second year in a row, scoring 642.45. Fifth place went to Penn State's Daphne Wils (609.50).
Last year's top qualifier on platform from Zone A was Mariana Osorio Mendoza of Pitt, with 573.00 points. Abigail Sullivan of West Virginia was fifth on platform, scoring 465.45.
How They Qualified
Freece will make her fourth appearance at NCAA Zone Championships, and this is the seventh straight year that Liberty will be represented at Zones. In 2021, Freece finished a program-best ninth on three-meter and 14th on one-meter at the Zone Championships. Icard competed at Zones last year, while LaCount will be making her Zone debut.
Freece is a two-time CCSA Women's Diver of the Year. She finished second on both one-meter and three-meter at the 2025 ASUN Championships. Freece is a nine-time conference medalist, including four-time individual event winner. The senior earned her spot at Zones for three-meter diving by scoring 299.05 points in the ASUN three-meter A Final.
Icard was named the Most Outstanding Female Diver of the 2025 ASUN Championships, winning both one-meter (267.25) and three-meter (310.70) diving. She punched her ticket to Zones on all three boards with her scores from the ASUN meet. With platform diving held as an exhibition at the ASUN Championships, she scored 253.00 to earn her third different board qualification for Zones. Icard will focus on three-meter and platform this week.
LaCount qualified for the Zone A Diving Championships during the regular season, scoring 276.45 on one-meter and 283.65 on three-meter at the TYR '85 Invite in Novembers. She earned a pair of A Finals appearances at the 2025 ASUN Championships, finishing fourth on three-meter and sixth on one-meter.
Liberty's divers are attempting to qualify for the 2025 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, held March 19-22 in Federal Way, Wash.
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