Upcoming Event: Swimming & Diving versus Boston College on September 26, 2025 at 4 p.m. Diving / 5 p.m. Swimming
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4 p.m. Diving / 5 p.m. Swimming
Swimming & Diving
vs Boston College
2022-23 Swimming & Diving Roster
Watson, Ali
Ali Watson
- Position:
- Diving
- Height:
- 5-1
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Pine Crest School
- Hometown:
- Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Bio
Top Scores
Academic Accolades
- CSCAA Scholar All-American First Team (2020, 2023-24)
- All-ACC Academic Team (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- ACC Academic Honor Roll (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)
Career Accolades
- CSCAA All-America: Platform (2020)
- CSCAA Honorable Mention All-America: Platform (2021)
- All-ACC: Platform (2020, 2021)
- Team’s Most Outstanding Performance Award (2020, 2021)
- Team’s Most Valuable Athlete Award (2021)
- CSCAA Second Team All-American (Platform – 2023-24)
2023-24 (Graduate)
- Competed at the US Olympic Trials, earning a spot in the finals on the platform event and placed sixth (543.50)
- Finished second in the women’s platform event at the NCAA Championships, posting a score of 282.60
- Won the women’s platform event at NCAA Zone B Championships, scoring 643.30 pointsÂ
- Tallied a second-place finish against Texas in the three-meter dive (340.65) and a third-place finish in the one-meter dive (286.65)
- Finished first in the three-meter dive against Virginia Tech (354.83)
2022-23 (Senior)
- Began her senior campaign against Virginia Tech with a second-place finish in the 3-meter event, posting a score of 323.70
- Took a clean sweep of second place in both the one and three-meter dives against UNCW in the second event of the year
- Placed first in the Platform dive at NC State, tallying a score of 347.03
- Swept the preliminary dives and finals dive of the Platform event at the NCAA Zone B Championships to qualify for NCAA’s with a score of 316.95 and 606.20 respectively
- Concluded the year with a 36th-place finish in the Platform event
2021-22 (Junior)
- Concluded her season at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship, placing 42nd in the platform event
- Qualified for the NCAA meet with a second-place finish in platform diving at the NCAA Zone B Championships
- Also placed 30th in the three-meter event
- Reached two finals at the ACC Championships
- Placed sixth in the platform event and seventh on the three-meter board
- Competed in all three finals at the 2021 NC State GAC Invitational, finishing first in platform diving, fourth in one-meter and fifth in three-meter
- Finished first in platform diving against Boston College and UNC Wilmington (10/29-30) and NC State (1/15)
- Competed in the USA Diving Winter Nationals in December of 2021, placing 10th in the senior women's platform diving finals.
2020-21 (Sophomore)
- Earned CSCAA Honorable Mention All-America honors in platform diving at the 2021 NCAA Championship
- Reached the NCAA Championship with a second-place finish (547.80)Â in platform diving at the Zone B Championships
- Named All-ACC in platform diving after finishing second (323.40) in the event at the conference meet
- Her score of 323.40 in the finals at ACCs was a career-best and placed second in program history
- Became the first women's diver to earn back-to-back All-ACC honors in the same event since Olympian Abby Johnston did so in one-meter diving in 2010 and 2011
- Named the Blue Devil of the Month by GoDuke the Magazine after her performance at ACCs
- Won the platform event against UNC Wilmington, scoring a 282.68
- Her performance at the ACC Championship was deemed the most outstanding performance at the team banquet
- Named the women's Most Valuable Athlete by the team.
2019-20 (Freshman)
- Qualified for the NCAA Championships in platform diving as a freshman prior to the event being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Named a CSCAA All-American in platform diving
- Earned qualification to NCAAs by placing fourth (515.00) in the Platform final at the Zone B Diving Championships
- Earned All-ACC honors in platform diving after placing third at the conference meet with a career-best score of 267.65, the fifth-highest score in Duke history
- Joined teammate Maddi Pullinger in 2019 as being just the second freshman to earn All-ACC honors since 2015
- Her performance on the platform boards was deemed the Most Outstanding Diving Performance of the year at the team’s annual awards banquet
- Also competed in the one- and three-meter competitions at ACCs
- Earned a third-place finish in the three-meter event versus NC State (1/18)
- Reached the consolation final on the one-meter boards at the NC State GAC Diving Invitational, placing sixth in that final
- Enjoyed a career day at the dual meet versus Boston College, setting career best scores in the one-meter (272.50) and three-meter (290.55).
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Prior to Duke: World University Games Trials qualifier … Finalist on the platform at Senior Winter National Championships her junior year … Claimed a Zones title on the three-meter board that year, as well as a silver medal on the platform and a bronze on the one-meter board … Junior National Champion on the platform as a junior … Silver medalist on the platform at the British Junior Elite Championships … YMCA Platform national champion as a sophomore … Platform finalist at Senior Nationals … NISCA All-American … USA Diving High Performance Tier 3 Member in 2017, 2018 and 2019 … Member of National English Honors Society and National Spanish Honors Society.
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