UNC Swimming & Diving

Complete coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels Swimming & Diving.

Aranza Vazquez Montaño Named Honda Award Finalist For Swimming & Diving

UNC senior diver Aranza Vazquez Montaño has been named a finalist for the Class of 2024 Honda Sport Award for Swimming & Diving. Vazquez Montaño was a Honda Award finalist last season and has won back-to-back CSCAA Diver of the Year honors. She swept the national titles in the 1-meter and 3-meter dives for the second year in a row this season. (GoHeels.com)

North Carolina Third In Learfield Directors' Cup Standings

UNC scored 361 points, the seventh most in the country among the winter sports, to bolster the Tar Heels' overall third-place performance in the updated LEARFIELD Directors' Cup standings, which were released Thursday by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. UNC has six top-10 finishes thus far in NCAA post-season play. (GoHeels.com)

Video: One-on-one with Aranza Vazquez and Erin Matson

University of North Carolina diver and four-time national champion Aranza Vazquez joins five-time field hockey national champion (and current UNC Field Hockey coach) Erin Matson for an exclusive one-on-one feature between two of the greatest Tar Heels in their respective sports to discuss their combined 9 national titles and more. (View Video)

UNC Diver Aranza Vazquez Montaño Becomes 4-Time National Champion

For the second year in a row, UNC's Aranza Vazquez Montaño swept the springboard competitions at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, capturing the 3-meter title Friday, one day after winning her second 1-meter championship Thursday. Vazquez scored 67.50 points on her final dive for her second repeat championship. (GoHeels.com)

UNC Diver Aranza Vazquez Montaño Wins 3rd Career NCAA Title

UNC’s Aranza Vazquez Montaño is taking home another national championship. The senior diver from La Paz, Mexico topped the field in the one-meter diving finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Athens, GA. Vazquez Montaño cleared the rest of the field, which included divers from Texas, USC and Duke, by more than 24 points. (Chapelboro.com)

Aranza Vazquez Montaño Named ACC Diver Of The Week

North Carolina's Aranza Vazquez Montaño was named ACC Women's Diver of the Week for the fifth time this season and 13th time overall on Tuesday. She has won the award each of the past two weeks, four of the last five, five of the past seven. Montaño split the diving events in No. 20 UNC's meet with No. 1 Virginia and No. 8 North Carolina State. (GoHeels.com)

UNC Siblings Sweep ACC Weekly Diving Awards

UNC's brother and sister duo Rodolfo Vazquez Montaño and Aranza Vazquez Montaño took home ACC Men's and Women's Diver of the Week honors, with Rodolfo sharing Men's Diver of the Week accolades with Pitt's Dylan Reed. Aranza swept the diving events against UNC Asheville. This was her fourth weekly award of the season and 12th of her career. (GoHeels.com)

Which UNC athletes will be the Tar Heels’ best in 2024?

A new year has arrived, and it’s time to look at some athletes who could thrive for North Carolina in 2024. UNC Field Hockey provided the top highlight in 2023, winning a national championship for the fifth time in six seasons. Representing seven sports, here’s a look at 11 UNC standouts primed to make headlines in 2024 as the top Tar Heels on campus. (Fayetteville Observer)

UNC Student-Athletes Set Graduation Success Rates Record

For the fourth straight year UNC student-athletes set a school-record for multi-year graduation rates and set the mark for highest single-year rate as reported in the NCAA's annual Graduation Success Rates. Tar Heels student-athlete GSRs for the incoming classes of 2013-14 through 2016-17 were a record 92%. The single-year rate was also a record 94%. (GoHeels.com)

DTH Editors' picks for UNC Athlete of the Year

Aranza Vazquez has proven herself as a trailblazer at North Carolina, underscored by the accolades she’s amassed, such as the 2023 ACC Women’s Diver of the Year and the 2022-23 CSCAA Women’s Diver of the Year. Fiona Crawley brought tennis into the limelight, leading the UNC women’s team to its first NCAA Team Championship in program history. (Daily Tar Heel)

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