Section 4: Players & Officials
- Each diver competes individually; multiple divers compete in a flight
- Officials: meet referee, diving referee, panel of 5 or 7 judges (NCAA championship typically 7), announcer, recorder/calculator
- Coaches in the team area; on-deck coaching during the dive is allowed before the dive begins
NCAA Championship Qualifying
NCAA Diving Championship qualification is via NCAA Zone Diving Meets — five regional Zone meets contested in the weeks before the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, with a specified number of qualifiers from each zone advancing per gender per event.