Wednesday, March 11
Annapolis, Md.
11:00 AM ET
Liberty University
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NCAA Division I Zone A Diving Championships
Icard Earns NCAA Nationals Berth, Places 5th on Platform at Zones
3/11/2026 1:34:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Liberty junior Shannon Icard placed fifth on platform on the final day of the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, Wednesday at LeJeune Hall. She became the first Liberty diver in program history to qualify for the NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
Icard scored 444.90 total points combined between prelims and finals, good for fifth place. Each of the top six combined scores on platform qualified for the 2026 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Atlanta, Ga.
Icard will compete on platform on March 21, the final day of the championships. She will join junior Kamryn Cannings and sophomore Aly Bozzuto, who will swim each of the last three days of the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
Liberty's Performer
Icard, Cannings and Bozzuto will all compete at the 2026 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, held March 18-21 in Atlanta, Ga.
Icard scored 444.90 total points combined between prelims and finals, good for fifth place. Each of the top six combined scores on platform qualified for the 2026 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships in Atlanta, Ga.
Icard will compete on platform on March 21, the final day of the championships. She will join junior Kamryn Cannings and sophomore Aly Bozzuto, who will swim each of the last three days of the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
Liberty's Performer
- Jr. Shannon Icard – Platform diving (5) – 444.90 (5th place overall)
- This year, there were only 18 participants on platform, meaning all 18 qualified for finals.
- Icard scored 224.35 points in prelims, placing her sixth overall entering finals. She hovered between fifth and sixth throughout finals, and solidified her spot at nationals with her final dive.
- Rutgers' Sephora Ford scored 555.10 points overall, good for the Zone title. The remaining NCAA national qualifiers from Zone A were: Rutgers' Bailee Sturgill (527.05), Pitt's Mariana Osorio Mendoza (490.40) and Jessia Vega (487.45), Liberty's Shannon Icard (444.90) and Pitt's Cassandra Guerrera (441.40).
- Today's platform divers represented schools from Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
- Icard becomes the first Liberty diver to qualify for NCAA nationals. Additionally, she broke her own program 10-dive platform record, 434.80, which she set last year while placing 16th at Zones.
- This is the eighth 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.
- This is the third time that Liberty has competed in NCAA Zone Diving Championships at Navy's LeJeune Hall. The Lady Flames' first Zone Championship experience came in 2019 at LeJeune Hall, which also hosted the championships in 2022 and now this year.
Icard, Cannings and Bozzuto will all compete at the 2026 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, held March 18-21 in Atlanta, Ga.
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