COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Four divers will represent the Mountain West Conference at the NCAA Diving Championships to be held in Minneapolis, Minn.
BYU will be sending two divers as Brandon Watson and Tawni Jones both qualified for the Cougars. Watson won both the one and three-meter events at the MWC Championships while placing second in the platform. Jones placed third in the three-meter dive and fourth in both the one-meter and platform at the conference championships.
Wyoming's Kevin Bretting and TCU's R.J. Hesselberg will also represent the MWC at the NCAA championships. Bretting placed third in both springboard events at the league championships, while finishing sixth in the platform. Hesselberg, who qualified out of Zone D, was third in the MWC platform finals, seventh in the one-meter and ninth in the three-meter.
Watson, Jones and Bretting all qualified out of Zone E.
In-Depth Zone Qualification Priority Spots
Listed alphabetically by individual Male Qualifiers (Zone):
Mike Alderman, Penn State (A)
Michele Benedetti, Arizona State (E)
Kevin Bretting, Wyoming (E) David Boyko, Missouri (D)
Danny Cox, Purdue (C)
Chris Dalman, Cleveland State (C)
Greg DeStephen, Missouri (D)
Dwight Dumais, Stanford (E)
Aaron Fleshner, Alabama (B)
Magnus Frick, Hawaii (E)
Genya Gouzeev, Georgia (B)
Kellen Harkness, Ohio State (C)
Sam Helvie, California (E)
R.J. Hesselberg, TCU (D) Michael Hilde, Southern California (E)
Preston Holcombe, SMU (D)
Terrence Horner, Florida State (B)
Kenny Jenkins, Southern California (E)
Shaun Kennedy, Minnesota (C)
Stuart Malcolm, Princeton (A)
Kelly Marx, Auburn (B)
Dan Mazzaferro, Auburn (B)
Karo Isajan, La Salle (A)
Ruben Ross, Miami (B)
Zachary Schultz, Purdue (C)
Steve Segerlin, Auburn (B)
Eric Sehn, Texas A&M (D)
Hugh Showe, Ohio State (C)
Brian Smith, Texas (D)
Evan Stowers, Georgia Tech (B)
Jeremy Stultz, Pittsburgh (A)
Brandon Watson, Brigham Young (E) Weston Wieser, Ohio State (C)
Mats Wiktorsson, Hawaii (E)
Mike Wong, Texas (D)
