SMU diver Sitz earned a silver medal on March 27 at the 2026 NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, after finishing second on the 3-meter springboard. Sitz also received First-Team All-America honors and broke the program record twice in one day.
This achievement is significant for SMU as it highlights individual and team progress at a national level competition. Sitz’s performance continues a tradition of excellence within the Mustangs’ swimming and diving program.
In the finals, Sitz scored 495.30 points, marking the highest score ever recorded by an SMU athlete in this event. Earlier that day, he had set his previous personal best with a score of 442.20 during preliminaries. At last year’s championships as a freshman, Sitz finished seventeenth with a score of 355.85—showing an improvement of nearly 140 points over one year.
Sitz’s standout dive was his Reverse 3½ Somersault Tuck (307C), which earned him a single-dive score of 92.75 points. This result adds to his accomplishments at these championships; earlier in the meet, he claimed his first national title on the 1-meter board with a score of 428.10—the first NCAA championship for an SMU athlete since golfer Bryson DeChambeau won in 2015 and the first diving title since Scott Donie achieved gold in both events back in 1990.
Other Mustang athletes also competed: Freshman finished twenty-first on three-meter with a score of 355.50; Junior made his debut at NCAAs by swimming the men’s hundred backstroke and broke his own school record by one-hundredth of a second to finish tied for thirty-fourth overall.
The Mustangs will continue competing on March 28 during the final day at McAuley Aquatic Center, including appearances by Berube in preliminaries for two-hundred backstroke and participation from relay squads.
