TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona diver Delaney Schnell has received her third consecutive Pac-12 Diver of the Year award, alongside head diving coach Dwight Dumais who has earned his second Pac-12 Diving Coach of the Year award, the conference announced today. It marks the second year the dynamic duo has been selected for the honors as a pair, having also received both awards following the 2021-22 season.
Delaney wrapped up up her collegiate career this year with a powerful final season. Back in January, the diver received two Pac-12 Diver of the Week honors after dominating her only two events, the 1-meter and 3-meter, in Arizona's meets against NAU, California, and Stanford. She received another weekly honor in February after her performance against Arizona State.
The Tucson native went on to prevail twice at the Pac-12 Championships, winning the 1-meter and 3-meter events, and being awarded Pac-12 Women's Scholar Athlete of the Year. Schnell earned the award with her outstanding athletic and academic performances, maintaining a 4.0 GPA while she pursues her master's degree in clinical speech-language pathology. The next week, Schnell set a program record at the NCAA Diving Zones in the platform dive with a score of 392.8, besting her previous record of 383.35.
The diver continued to the NCAA Championships with her sights set on the one thing she hadn't yet conquered: a national title. Schnell remained focused as she took second in the 1-meter and fourth in the 3-meter on the first and second days of the NCAA's. Finally, on the last night of competition and her final collegiate event, Schnell proved victorious in the platform dive, taking first place and becoming a National Champion.
Head diving coach Dwight Dumais earned his second Pac-12 Diving Coach of the Year honor after leading Arizona's divers through an incredible season. This year under Dumais' leadership, Delaney broke her platform program record, won two Pac-12 Champion titles, three Pac-12 Diver of the Week honors, the Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year award, All-American honors in all three of her events, her first ever national title, and now the Pac-12 Diver of the Year award. Dumais also coached divers Bjorn Markentin and Quinn Gariepy through Diving Zones and on to the NCAA's. Markentin secured a second place finish at the Pac-12 Championships in the 1-meter and qualified for NCAA's in both the 1-meter and platform events at Diving Zones. Gariepy had a fifth place finish in the 1-meter dive at Pac-12's, and qualified for all three diving events at Zones, securing her spot in the National Championship.
Dumais has been with the Wildcats since 2018, and is the second diving coach in Arizona history to earn the honor; he is the first to ever do it twice.
