Overview
NCAA Diving is collegiate competitive diving for men's and women's brackets at Divisions I, II, and III. Judges score athletes on required dive lists under World Aquatics rules with NCAA modifications. Competitors qualify through Zone meets for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship each March.
How to win
- Highest total score wins — Sum all dive scores across 11 dives; highest total wins the event.
- Score calculation — Drop high+low score(s), sum 3 remaining, multiply by dive's Degree of Difficulty.
- Tiebreaker then co-champs — More high-range judge scores wins the tie; if still tied, both share the championship.
- Each judge scores the dive from 0 to 10 in 0.5-point increments (0, 0.5, 1.0, ..., 10.0)
- Failed dive: 0 (judge declares "failed dive")
The game
- Zone meet qualification — Qualify via five regional Zone meets held before NCAAs; set number advance per gender per event.
- Each diver competes alone; multiple divers take turns within a flight.
