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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference (MAC) will see Abby Daniel (Akron), Megan Lupa (Eastern Michigan), Madeline Padavic (Miami), and Zita Szoke (Ohio) compete for a title at the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships this week at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way, Washington.
This year’s championship comprises 322 participants: 281 swimmers and 41 divers.
Akron
Informaiton coming soon...
Eastern Michigan
en days after placing 10th in the finals at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, Eastern Michigan University freshman diver
Megan Lupa will compete at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in the platform dive, hosted by the Seattle Sports Commission, Washington State University, and the city of Federal Way, Wash., at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, in Federal Way, Wash., Saturday, March 22, 3 p.m.
Fans can follow Lupa's competition live on
ESPN+ and keep up with live scores
here. Fans interested in attending the meet can purchase tickets
here, and access full meet information
here.
Lupa is just the second diver in Eastern Michigan history to qualify for NCAA nationals in the platform dive and the first since
Mugs Cullings (EMU's first NCAA Qualifier) did so 36 years ago in the 1989 season. The reigning Mid-American Conference (MAC) Freshman Diver of the Year punched her ticket to the national championships with a combined score of 480.20 points at the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, marking a collegiate personal best. The NCAA qualification is the program's 16th all-time and the first under Head Diving Coach
Tom Gimm.
Additionally, Lupa is the only MAC diver among the 2025 National Qualifiers and one of four MAC student-athletes scheduled to compete at the meet along with swimmers Abigail Daniel (Akron), Zita Szoke (Ohio), and Madeline Padavic (Miami). When it comes to freshmen competing in the platform dive, Lupa is just one of 13 that made the cut countrywide and is the first Eastern diver in program history to make the cut as a freshman, and first since swimmer
Delaney Duncan did so as a rookie in the 100y and 200y breaststroke in 2016.
Miami
Information coming soon...
Ohio
Ohio swimming sophomore
Zita Szoke heads to Federal Way, Wash. March 19-22 for the 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships hosted by Washington State at Gibb Pool. Szoke's week begins on Thursday, March 20 for the 50 free. She then returns to the pool on Friday, March 21 for the 200 free, before wrapping up her trip on Saturday, March 22 for the 200-yard freestyle. Each day's prelims will begin at 1 p.m. ET, with finals scheduled for 9 p.m. ET. All sessions can be seen on ESPN+.
This is the second straight year that Szoke (Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary) has qualified for the NCAA Championships. Szoke currently holds the 23
rd-fastest time in the NCAA in the 100 free, after setting a new school and Mid-American Conference record in the prelims at the 2025 MAC Championships last weekend in Buffalo, N.Y., with a time of 47.84. The time was also a new MAC Championship and pool record. Szoke also holds the 37
th-fastest time in the 200 free, a school record time of 1:44.74 that she also set last weekend at the MAC Championships. Szoke's time of 22.17 in the 50 free is currently the 53
rd-fastest.
Szoke is coming off a stellar MAC Championships last weekend, where she was crowned MAC Champion in the 50, 100, and 200 free, while also earning a relay championship in the 200-yard freestyle relay and earned her second-straight First Team All-MAC Selection.
NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships Schedule of Events
Thursday, March 20
200 IM, Abby Daniel
50 Freestyle, Madeline Padavic and Zita Szoke
Friday, March 21
100 Butterfly, Abby Daniel
200 Freestyle, Zita Szoke
100 Backstroke, Madeline Padavic
Saturday, March 22
100 Freestyle, Zita Szoke
200 Butterfly, Abby Daniel
Platform dive, Megan Lupa
