BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Stanford senior Jack Ryan won three springboard events at the USA Diving Winter Nationals over the past week.
Ryan completed the individual springboard sweep on Saturday by winning the 3-meter with 852.40 points. He earlier won the 1-meter and synchronized 3-meter dives at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center.
Carson Tyler, the 2024 NCAA 3-meter champion from Indiana, finished second at 766.95, and Indiana’s Quinn Henninger, the 2024 NCAA runner-up in both springboard events, scored 739.60 points for bronze.
Ryan held a 7.45-point lead over Tyler after the morning preliminaries, and the contest remained close halfway through the final. With three dives remaining, he led by just 2.75 points. Ryan responded with 84 points or higher on each of his last three dives, scoring 84 points on his reverse 3 ½ tuck, 89.25 on his reverse 1 ½ with 3 ½ twists and 91.20 on his front 4 ½ tuck to earn his third gold medal of the week.
Stanford’s Hunter Hollenbeck reached the final in the 3-meter, placing 12th with 632.60 points. He scored 313.25 in the prelims.
In the 1-meter on Friday, Ryan cruised to the title with 792.65 points over two lists of dives. Ryan had already clinched the victory before performing his last dive, winning gold by 72.60 points.
Scores from the afternoon preliminaries carried over, and Ryan came into the final with a 42.65-point lead. He increased the gap after scoring 70 or more points on his first three dives in the final, opening with 70.40 points on a front 2 ½ with one twist, followed by 72.85 points on an inward 2 ½ tuck and then scoring 72 points on a front 3 ½ tuck.
Hollenbeck was 27th in the 1-meter prelims, with 267.65.
In the 3-meter synchro event on Wednesday, Ryan and Henninger, former club teammates at the Mile High Dive Club, scored 825.72 points over two lists of dives. They scored more than 80 points on three dives, including twice on their reverse 1 ½ with 3 ½ twists – 81.90 in the morning preliminary and 88.20 in the final. They added 85.05 points on a reverse 3 ½ tuck in the prelim.
Ryan finished as the Individual High Point Award winner for the meet, with 60 points.