Boise State Divers Ready for NCAA Zone Championships

Boise State's three-member dive team is off to the NCAA Zone E Championships in Federal Way, Wash. All three Broncos qualified for the zone championship by meeting score standards on at least one of the three dives.
This is the first time under dive coach Brandon Blaisdell that all of the divers have qualified for the zone meet together.
While this is sophomore Marti Erlam's second trip to the zone championships, this is the first trip for both juniors Taylor Clark and Tatum Thompkins.
At stake are tickets to the NCAA Championships March 18-21 at Athens, Ga.

This will be the second trip to the NCAA Zone E Championships for Erlam having qualified as freshman in 2019.
The sophomore competed in five competitions this year, but missed the Mountain West Championships because of injury. She is healthy now and ready to compete.
Erlam qualified on both springboards, the 1-meter and 3-meter.
On the 1-meter she recorded five scores that qualified her for the zone meet, with a career-high 307.20 being her top mark.
In the 3-meter competition, all six of her scores during the season surpassed the qualifying standard for zones with a top score of 316.18 ... her career-high is a 324.67 recorded during her freshman campaign.
At last year's NCAA Zone E Championships in Flagstaff, Ariz., she placed 12th on 3-meter with a combined score of 568.55 (287.25/281.3) and took 14th on the 1-meter with a 540.50 (270.8/269.7).

This will be Clark's first trip to the NCAA Zone Championships.
The junior qualified for the zone meet on the platform with three different qualifying scores late in the season, including setting her career-high on each of her last three dives, twice at the 2020 Mountain West Championships with a 237.10 in the prelims followed by a 243.65 in the B final to place 12th.

Thompkins will also be competing in her first NCAA Zone E Championships meet.
Like Erlam, the junior qualified for the championships on both springboards.
Thompkins had two scores that qualified her for the zone meet with the top being a career-high 279.00 scored at the MW Championships to take 10th.
On the 3-meter springboard, Thompkins tallied three scores that surpassed the qualifying standard with the top being a career-high 306.08 ... she scored a second-best score of 285.25 during the MW Championship B final to place 13th overall.