Shorter repeats as KCAC diving champ; Jimmies finish with 10 top-eight places

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ELKHART, Ind.—Jada Shorter repeated as the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference's 1-meter and 3-meter diving champion at the KCAC Championships in Elkhart, Ind., which concluded on Saturday evening.

It also marked the third straight year that Shorter captured first place in the 1-meter diving, and her other finish in the 3-meter diving at the conference meet was a second-place finish in 2022.

Her score of 208.55 in the 1-meter competition was nearly 12 points higher than runner-up Ashley McNamara of Aquinas (Mich.), and the 181.70 score she posted in the 3-meter diving finals was over 41 points higher than Sarah Colvin, also of Aquinas.

While Shorter was the Jimmies' only individual title-winner, there were six top-eight individual performances as well as four top-seven relay finishes as UJ placed seventh in the overall team competition.

Cerys Williams took second place in the 200 fly with a time of 2:11.62, fourth place in the 100 fly with a time of 58.33, and seventh place in the 100 breast in a time of 1:08.55.

Sulinke Vandenberg finished third in the 200 individual medley (2:10.22), which set a new team record, fourth in the 200 back (2:09.23), and fifth in the 100 back (1:00.11).

The 800 freestyle relay team of Nia Hanson, Blanca Espinosa, Sulinke Vandenberg, and Cerys Williams as well as the 400 medley relay team made up of Vandenberg, Emma Pickrel, Williams, and Sofia Labrozzi placed sixth, setting a new team record with a time of 4:07.66[.

The 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams comprised of Pickrel, Labrozzi, Espinosa, and Vandenberg finished seventh.

Following the conference meet, the Jimmies will get ready for the 2024 NAIA Swimming and Diving Championshps in Columbus, Ga., March 6-9.