NCAA Men’s Championships: Indiana’s Carson Tyler Stellar in Platform 3-Peat
Carson Tyler needed merely a clean sixth and final dive Saturday night to clinch his third NCAA platform diving title.
He delivered, as he has so often in his career, excellence.
Tyler nailed his final dive for 90 points, one of two 90-point efforts in dominating the field with a score 480.45 points.
Jaxon Bowshire, the Australian Olympian and freshman from Texas A&M, scored 80.00 on his final dive to finish with 450.80 and a maiden NCAA medal that is silver. Purdue freshman Kaden Springfield finished third in 408.50, while Tyler’s Indiana teammate Quinn Henninger had a rough first dive in finishing seventh with a score of 390.50.
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The win clinches a third straight platform title for Tyler, who also won 3-meter this year and last. Indiana also becomes just the second team since platform diving was introduced in 1990 to sweep all three titles at the same men’s event, joining the 1997 Miami squad (Tyce Routson on platform and 3-meter, Rio Ramirez on 1-meter). Tyler is a five-time national champion, having won the last two 3-meter crowns.
Tyler’s flourish at the finish contrasted his win over Henninger on 3-meter Friday, when he needed just 65 points from his last dive and ended up with 66, besting his mate by 1.3 points.
“It’s such a special group, all these divers,” Tyler said. “They’re pushing me every day, especially Quinn, he’s such a great talent. I’m so thankful to have them.”
Two of Saturday’s contenders were fueled by early prelims disappointment. Tyler finished 10th in prelims on 1-meter, then scored 432.75 points in the consolation final, within two points of the score that Henninger used to win.
“It was really hard to miss out on the A final in 1-meter,” Tyler said. “I was pretty hurt, but to come back in the B final and put a great performance, a personal best for me, that was really important, to have a good performance, and that carried into the other days.”
Purdue’s Jordan Rzepka was 14th on 3-meter, then blitzed consols for 432.15 points, which would’ve been fourth in the championship final. Rzepka finished sixth. Rzepka was fourth last year and seventh in 2022, with an outlier of a 17th-place finish in between.
Texas A&M’s Rhett Hensley finished fourth. He’s probably just glad not to be 13th, as he was each of the last two years. He was .25 points ahead of Miami’s Maxwell Flory, who had a rough dive in the sixth round. Stanford rookie Misha Andriyuk, the third freshman in the A final, was eighth.
Tyler and Flory led after one round with matching 75.60 scores, with Bowshire a point behind. Rzepka was nearly 30 back and Henninger 25. Tyler’s 307C in the fourth round all but clinched it, with 91.80 points. Bowshire was solid in the last two rounds but he gained no ground.
The B final had major ramifications for the team race. Texas’ Jacob Welsh snuck into the night session with the 15th-best score in prelims, but rose to 12th in finals. He hit for mostly 9s with a single 10 on his fourth dive, then backed it with 8s on his fifth.
Maxwell Weinrich of Indiana saw three 10s in the fourth round to help him finish 10th.
Indiana divers didn’t just sweep but scored 117 points, between Tyler, Henninger and Weinrich. That played a massive role in Indiana finishing third in the team standings with 459 points. The Indiana divers, had they been a standalone team, would’ve scored in 10th place, ahead of the likes of Virginia Tech, Michigan and Louisville.
So when the divers talk about feeling integrated into the whole, it’s something that the Bloomington program really believes.
“It’s so awesome to be able to contribute and have them supporting us and rallying around us,” Tyler said. “It’s just amazing, a full team effort.”
Event 20 Men Platform Diving
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Meet: M 548.90 3/26/2011 Nick McCrory, Duke
Name Year School Prelims Finals Points
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=== Championship Final ===
1 Tyler, Carson SR Indiana 410.40 480.45 20
2 Bowshire, Jaxon FR TAMU 426.15 450.80 17
3 Springfield, Kaden FR Purdue 375.95 408.50 16
4 Hensley, Rhett SR TAMU 381.20 394.70 15
5 Flory, Maxwell SR Miami (FL) 385.65 394.45 14
6 Rzepka, Jordan SR Purdue 415.90 393.20 13
7 Henninger, Quentin SR Indiana 388.40 390.50 12
8 Andriyuk, Misha FR Stanford 409.00 333.25 11
=== Consolation Final ===
9 Paul, Carson JR LSU 367.45 399.10 9
10 Weinrich, Maxwell JR Indiana 355.95 387.40 7
11 Gosselin-Paradis, Lau JR USC 353.70 375.85 6
12 Welsh, Jacob FR Texas 349.20 367.30 5
13 Zannella, Tommaso SO Missouri 351.50 348.40 4
14 Bennett, Andrew JR Minnesota 364.30 343.40 3
15 Chambers, Nigel FR Alabama 341.35 330.60 2
16 Spencer, Maxwell SO South Carolina 355.25 305.15 1
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