Recaps courtesy of Athletic Communications Departments

OHIO
Ohio swimming sophomore Zita Szoke concluded her historic trip to the 2025 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday (March 22), placing 11th overall in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.62, becoming the first Bobcat to earn All-American status since 2000. 

Szoke (Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary) is the first Ohio women's swimmer to earn All-American status since Kermit Blosser Ohio Athletics Hall of Fame member Hollie Bonewit-Cron earned the distinction in 2000. 

Her 11th place finish is the highest finish at the NCAA Championships from a MAC swimmer this season, and it's the highest finish for a Bobcat since 1995 when Hall of Famer Lisa MacNicol (Mitchell) placed 11th in the 100 fly.  

Coming off her 20th-place finish in the 200 free on Friday, Szoke was primed for the 100 free on Saturday. In the morning prelims, Szoke placed fifth in her heat, touching in with – at the time - a new Ohio and Mid-American Conference record time of 47.63, placing her 13th in the prelims, earning her a spot in the night's finals. 

Szoke was back in the pool for the night's final session in the 100-yard freestyle consolation finals where she placed third, 11th overall, with a time of 47.62, breaking her own Ohio and MAC record that she set in the morning session. 

The finish concludes a stellar run for Szoke at this year's NCAA Championships, placing 44th in the 50 free, setting a new school record, and placing 20th in the 200 free. 


EASTERN MICHIGAN
Eastern Michigan University freshman diver Megan Lupa became the first Eastern diver to compete in the platform dive in 36 years and first EMU freshman diver to compete at the NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships in program history, as she placed 45th in the 10m platform dive prelims scoring 208.35 points at the 2025 edition of the meet, 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.
 
Lupa was the only MAC diver among the 2025 National Qualifiers and one of four MAC student-athletes who competed at the meet along with swimmers Abigail Daniel (Akron), Zita Szoke (Ohio), and Madeline Padavic (Miami). Regarding freshmen competing in the platform dive, Lupa was one of just 13 who saw action in the event countrywide. Moreover, Lupa became 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 recently named 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, March 12. Additionally, the NCAA qualification was the program's 16th all-time and the first under Head Diving Coach Tom Gimm. 
 
Lupa's performance concluded the 2024-25 season for the Eagles.