Alabama Swimming & Diving’s Tanesha Lucoe Finals off 1-meter at NCAA Zone B Championships
3/6/2022 6:58:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
The Zone Championships serve as the gateway to the NCAA Championships for divers
ATLANTA, Ga. – Alabama swimming and diving's Tanesha Lucoe finaled off the 1-meter springboard at the NCAA Zone B Championships, Sunday at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Ga., on the Georgia Tech campus.
Lucoe was ninth after prelims with 278.40 points over six dives, advancing to finals. She then tallied 265.20 points over her final six dives for a combined mark of 543.60 points, good for 14th overall. In other action off the women's 1-meter, Natalie Donkle finished 31st in prelims with 231.80 points, while Halia Bower was 36th with 226.75 points.
Lucoe, Donkle and Bower are back in action Monday in the women's 3-meter competition, while Mohamed Farouk, Hunter Jaynes and Kevin Li get their Zone B competition started with the men's 1-meter springboard competition.
The Crimson Tide Contingent
- Tanesha Lucoe and Mohamed Farouk are competing on the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards and the platform events
- Halia Bower, Natalie Donkle, Hunter Jaynes and Kevin Li are competing off both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events
- Lucoe finished first or second off the platform at the last three Southeastern Conference Championships, including her second gold at the 2022 championships
- Lucoe has earned back-to-back NCAA Championship berths off the platform
- Li qualified to the NCAA Championships in the springboard events in both 2020 and 2021
- Li and Farouk both scored in the championship final of the 1-meter springboard, while Farouk finished fifth off the platform at the 2022 SEC Championships
The 2022 Zone B Championships
- While swimmers qualify for the upcoming NCAA Championships by virtue of times posted during the season, divers qualify exclusively through the five Zone meets
- Each Zone has a set number of slots per event
- For the women, Zone B has 10 slots off both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events and nine off the platform, while the men have eight off the 1-meter, 11 off the 3-meter board and seven on the platform
- In addition to hosting the Zone B meet, Atlanta is also the site of the men's and women's 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
- There are 100 divers from 19 different schools at this year's Zone B Championships, including SEC rivals Auburn, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee
- Events get underway at 10 a.m. CT on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
- Monday will include the men's 1-meter and women's 3-meter springboards
- Tuesday will feature the men's 3-meter and women's platform
- Wednesday will bring the Zone B Championships to a close with the men's platform
Up Next
- The Crimson Tide women are already sending 10 swimmers in individual events to the NCAA Championships, which will be held March 16-19
- Swimming qualifiers for the men's NCAA Championships will be announced Wednesday, March 9
- The men's national championships will be held March 23-26
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