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2022 NCAA Women’s Championships: Sarah Bacon Holds Narrow Lead in 3-Meter Diving
The Day 3 prelims session of the 2022 NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships concluded from the McAuley Aquatic Center at Georgia Tech with 3-meter diving.
Minnesota senior and defending NCAA champion Sarah Bacon took the top seed with 386.25 points.
Indiana senior Kristen Hayden is right on Bacon’s heels with a 381.45 score and still within striking distance.
Texas took the next two NCAA finalist spots as freshman Hailey Hernandez took the third seed with 366.35 points and senior Paola Pineda took the fourth seed with 357.40 points.
Miami’s Mia Vallee, who won the 1-meter title on Thursday, took he fifth seed with 356.55 points, followed by Indiana’s Tarrin Gilliland (351.50), Arizona’s Delaney Schnell (348.40) and Stanford senior Carolina Sculti (348.30).
NCAA Event 13 Women 3 mtr Diving
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Meet: M 437.75 3/20/2009 Christina Loukas, Indiana
Pool: P 429.05 2/23/2011 Abby Johnson, Duke
Name Year School Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Bacon, Sarah SR Minnesota 386.25
2 Hayden, Kristen SR Indiana 381.45
3 Hernandez, Hailey FR Texas 366.35
4 Pineda, Paola SR Texas 357.40
5 Vallee, Mia JR Miami (Florida) 356.55
6 Gilliland, Tarrin SO Indiana 351.50
7 Schnell, Delaney JR Arizona 348.40
8 Sculti, Carolina SR Stanford 348.30
9 Skilken, Jordan JR Texas 332.55
10 Knight, Kyndal SR Kentucky 331.20
10 Knapton, Abigail SR Rutgers 331.20
12 Vasquez Montano, Aran SO UNC 330.20
13 Amer, Maha JR Florida 325.60
14 O'Meara, Margo FR Duke 324.75
15 Mirafuentes, Melissa JR Wyoming 318.05
16 Straub, Kelly SR Notre Dame 316.85
17 Papworth Burrell, Mar FR Stanford 316.15
18 Cable, Grace SR Tennessee 313.95
19 Schultz, Brooke SR South Carolina 312.50
20 Fowler, Anne SO Indiana 309.35
21 Tuxen, Helle SO LSU 307.05
22 Zhu, Joy SR Minnesota 306.80
23 Clairmont, Alyssa JR TAMU 303.40
24 Gullstrand, Emma SO Miami (Florida) 299.60
25 Trueb, Savana JR Rutgers 299.40
26 McAfee, Sophia FR Purdue 294.85
27 O'Neil, Bridget SO Texas 294.25
28 Stocker, Savannah JR USC 291.75
29 Lavenant, Montserrat SO LSU 290.40
30 Sonnenberg, Jenna SO Purdue 290.15
31 Huitt, Madison SO USC 289.70
32 Menninger, Morgan SR Texas 289.65
33 Butler, Hannah JR UCLA 283.30
34 Crawford, Mackenzie JR Ohio St 282.95
35 Hidalgo, Camryn SR GT 281.30
36 Pullinger, Maddison SR Duke 280.20
37 Pellacani, Chiara FR LSU 278.55
38 Waxman, Holly FR Utah 274.65
39 Lenz, Daria SR Stanford 273.05
40 Bell, Jennifer JR Virginia 273.00
41 Franz, Victoria JR Buffalo State 263.70
42 Wilson, Aimee SR TAMU 257.40
43 Agundiade, Nike JR USC 257.15
44 Kaye, Elizabeth FR Virginia 252.85
45 Klein, Allie SR Michigan 251.00
46 Bowen, Charlotte JR Virginia 242.55
47 Miclau, Elizabeth SO Harvard 242.40
48 Southall, Morgan JR Kentucky 241.85
49 Montau, Hannah SR U.S. Navy 235.20
50 Read, Amy SR Pittsburgh 224.50
51 Lumia, Carina FR Florida 217.50
From Thursday’s 1-meter
A year ago, Mia Vallee earned her way into the final of the one-meter diving event at the NCAA Championships and finished eighth in the eight-woman field. A year later, she vaulted to the top of the standings – after a close call during prelims.
Dueling with Minnesota’s Sarah Bacon, the two-time defending champion, Vallee set a meet record with a tally of 365.75 points at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. That total handed the Miami junior a victory over Bacon, who checked in with a score of 356.60. Bacon set the previous record when she won the 2019 crown with a score of 363.20. Vallee is the 14th Miami diver to win a national title under coach Randy Ableman. She was the first diver on the board during prelims and the final.
“Starting first is never fun,” she said. “It is stressful to be the one starting the round. I think having done it in prelims, it was easier to do in finals. Everyone starts at zero. So I really went in with the mentality that everybody is back at the start…nobody is ahead of anyone else.”
