Completed Event: Men's Swimming & Diving versus Harvard on November 14, 2025 , Loss , 82, to, 217
Final
Men's Swimming & Diving
vs Harvard
82
217
Tuesday, March 10
Morgantown, W.Va.
12:00 PM
Dartmouth College
vs
Diving (Day Two)
Junior Justin Sodokoff
Photo by: Herb Swanson
NCAA Bound: Justin Sodokoff Qualifies on 1-meter
3/10/2020 5:53:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Junior Justin Sodokoff qualified for the NCAA Championship on the 1-meter diving board on Tuesday.
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He is the first Big Green diver to qualify since Toby Hays and Courtney DuBois competed in 1999.
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In prelims, Sodokoff was one of 11 Ivy League divers in the event, finishing in second place with a score of 336.70 and coming after Navy's Bradley Buchter (388.40). Sodokoff added another 283.95 at finals to place second overall with a score of 672.35, again coming in after Buchter (765.50).
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"Going to Zones for the first time, I didn't know what to expect," Sodokoff said. "However, I did know that I trained all year for this moment and that I was going to give it my all. It was incredible to dive alongside some of the best in the country and be able to perform the way I did. Finishing sixth on 3-meter and missing the cut by five points left a bitter taste in my mouth. Knowing how close I was to sending my coach and I to our first NCAA Championship set me into another gear.
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"I entered the 1-meter event with a mentality to attack every dive like it was the last of my career," Sodokoff continued. "When I finished second after putting 12 dives together, I could not have been happier and quite frankly, I was in shock. I immediately hugged my coach and said 'we really did it, Chris.' Overall, it was a surreal experience, as a full year of hard work finally paid off. I could not be more honored to send Chris, a man who has given everything to this program and bleeds Green, to the first championship of his career."
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The 2020 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship will take place from March 25-28 at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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He is the first Big Green diver to qualify since Toby Hays and Courtney DuBois competed in 1999.
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In prelims, Sodokoff was one of 11 Ivy League divers in the event, finishing in second place with a score of 336.70 and coming after Navy's Bradley Buchter (388.40). Sodokoff added another 283.95 at finals to place second overall with a score of 672.35, again coming in after Buchter (765.50).
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"Going to Zones for the first time, I didn't know what to expect," Sodokoff said. "However, I did know that I trained all year for this moment and that I was going to give it my all. It was incredible to dive alongside some of the best in the country and be able to perform the way I did. Finishing sixth on 3-meter and missing the cut by five points left a bitter taste in my mouth. Knowing how close I was to sending my coach and I to our first NCAA Championship set me into another gear.
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"I entered the 1-meter event with a mentality to attack every dive like it was the last of my career," Sodokoff continued. "When I finished second after putting 12 dives together, I could not have been happier and quite frankly, I was in shock. I immediately hugged my coach and said 'we really did it, Chris.' Overall, it was a surreal experience, as a full year of hard work finally paid off. I could not be more honored to send Chris, a man who has given everything to this program and bleeds Green, to the first championship of his career."
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The 2020 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship will take place from March 25-28 at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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