Lauren Chennault and Maddie Freece will compete in the NCAA Zone Diving Championships, Thursday and Friday.
Liberty will make its third NCAA appearance in diving, sending a pair of divers to the 2021 NCAA Zone A Diving Championship, held this week at Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, N.C.
Liberty freshman Maddie Freece and junior Lauren Chennault be competing for a chance to earn a spot in the 2021 NCAA Division I Women s Swimming & Diving Championships.
The meet will begin on Thursday with women s one-meter springboard. Friday will see the three-meter springboard competition, and on Saturday will be platform diving. Chennault and Freece will both be competing in one-meter and three-meter diving.
March 2, 2021 : By Ted Allen - Office of Communications & Public Engagement
Swimmers take off from the blocks at the Liberty Natatorium during the Feb. 15-17 CCSA Women’s Championships. (Photos by Andrew Snyder)
While spectators were not allowed at the Feb. 15-17 CCSA Championships at the Liberty Natatorium, the university’s women’s swimming & diving team still savored the cozy confines of its home environs as it captured a share of a fourth team title.
The facility was christened in January 2018, and a year later, the Lady Flames became the first program in CCSA history to host a championship meet on campus. In its first few years, the 75,000-square-foot natatorium has become a prime venue for collegiate swimming and diving, standing out in the crowd as one of the few facilities in the nation with an Olympic-distance competition pool and separate 17-foot-deep diving well.
Liberty senior Payton Keiner has been selected to compete in the 2021 NCAA Division I Women s Swimming & Diving Championships.
The 2021 NCAA Division I Women s Swimming & Diving Championships will be hosted at Greensboro Aquatic Center, March 17-20 in Greensboro, N.C.
Keiner will be making her second appearance at the NCAA Championships, as she competed in the 100 and 200 backstroke at nationals as a freshman in 2018. Keiner was selected to compete at the 2020 NCAA Division I Women s Swimming & Diving Championships, but the meet was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the seventh time in 11 years of the program s history that at least one Lady Flame has been selected to compete in the NCAA Division I Women s Swimming & Diving Championships. The Lady Flames have had two All-America honorable mention finishers, in Brye Ravettine (13
February 17, 2021 : By Liberty University Athletics
Liberty’s women’s swimming & diving team earned a share of its fourth CCSA Championship title, held Monday through Wednesday at the Liberty Natatorium, sharing the crown with Florida Gulf Coast University. (Photos by Andrew Snyder)
After 20 events and thousands of points scored, Liberty University and Florida Gulf Coast University finished as co-champions at the 2021 CCSA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship, which wrapped up Wednesday night at the Liberty Natatorium.
This is the second time that the Lady Flames have served as host for the CCSA Championships, also hosting in 2019. That year, Liberty won its second conference title before the Lady Flames defended their title last year in Knoxville, Tenn.