2018 NCAA Champion Set to Join Gamecocks
Columbia, S.C. – South Carolina swimming and diving has signed graduate transfer diver Brooke Schultz of Fayetteville, Ark., head diving coach Dale Schultz announced Wednesday. She will join the team in January.
Schultz comes to South Carolina after having spent her undergraduate years at the University of Arkansas. While with the Razorbacks, Schultz was a two-time SEC Diver of the year (2018, 2019) and was the 2018 NCAA Champion in the three meter dive. She also made trips to the NCAA championships in 2019 where she placed second in the three meter dive and in 2021 where she placed third in the one meter dive.
In SEC competition, Schultz medaled in the conference championships every year that they were held. In 2018, she swept the springboard events, claiming both the one and three meter titles. She repeated her impressive feat again at the 2019 Championships. After the event was cancelled in 2020, Schultz came back in 2021 to take third in the three meter diving event.
Schultz has a long list of accomplishments in international competition as well. Prior to attending Arkansas, she earned gold at the 2017 Junior Pan American Championships in both the one meter and three meter dives and silver in the three meter dive at the 2017 World University Games. In 2018 she was named a member of the World Cup team and earned a bronze medal at the Bolanzo FINA Grand Prix. Schultz also participated in the 2020 Olympic Team trials where she placed sixth in the three meter springboard with a final score of 836.50.
Schultz is currently competing unattached at the USA Diving Winter Nationals in Bloomington, Ind., She partnered with current South Carolina diver Sophie Verzyl Tuesday in the synchronized three meter springboard where the duo earned fifth place with a score of 457.50.
The Gamecock divers will see their first action of the new year at the Tennessee Diving Invitational Jan. 3-5.
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