Nettie Knapton Season 2024-25

Honors & Awards
All-Mountain West Conference (Platform)
Fifth on Platform (2024 Mountain West Championships)
NCAA Zone E Qualifier (Platform, Three Meter, 2024)
Mountain West Freshman of the Week (Feb. 7, 2023)
Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Team (2023, 2024)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2024)

Junior (2024-25)
Knapton made an impressive showing in her first year as a Husker. She posted career best scores in each event and received seven standard B cuts including five on the three-meter board. 

At the Zone D Diving Championships in Iowa City, Iowa, Knapton finished in 46th in the three-meter event with 246.00 points. She made the finals for the platform dives at the championship as well, harnessing a total of 489.25 points and came in 15th overall. In the prelims, she posted a career best performance of 258.35. 

Early in the year, Nettie notched a third-place finish against the Fighting Illini in a meet at the Bob Devaney Natatorium in mid January. She recorded a career best score of 296.33. Against Iowa State, Nettie secured her personal best on the one-meter board by notching a fifth place finish and 257.78 points. In the platform well, she received a B cut score and career best at the Hawkeye prelims through a 238.00 sixth-place finish.

Sophomore (Wyoming, 2023-24)
As a  sophomore at Wyoming, Knapton posted a fifth-place finish on the platform at the 2024 Mountain West Championships with a career-best 255.90, which was the fourth-best platform performance in school history. She added a ninth-place conference finish on the one-meter (267.85) and a 20th-place finish on the three-meter (211.00).

Knapton went on to finish 19th on platform (219.30) in the preliminaries at the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships in Flagstaff, Ariz., just missing out on a spot in the 18-diver final. She added a 32nd-place finish on the three-meter dive (233.10) at Zones. She also qualified for zones on the one meter but did not compete in the event at the championships.

During the season, Knapton took seventh on platform (202.55) at the Mizzou Invitational.  She notched a runner-up finish on the three-meter (250.43) in a dual with Colorado State (Oct. 6) to open the regular season. She added a second straight runner-up finish on the three-meter board (253.35) in a dual with Air Force (Oct. 21). She recorded a career-best 272.18 on the three meter to finish third in a dual with Northern Colorado (Nov. 4).

Freshman (Wyoming, 2022-23)
As a freshman, Knapton was recognized as the Mountain West Freshman of the Week for her performance at the Air Force Diving Invitational (Feb. 2-4). She posted season bests of 263.85 on the three-meter dive against Denver (Jan. 7), while producing a season-best 259.28 on the one meter against Air Force (Oct. 29).

Before College
Knapton competed at Marian High School and was a top-five finisher at the 2022 Nebraska High School State Championships. With the Nebraska Diving Club, she earned a 17th-place finish on the platform at nationals her freshman season.

Personal
Nettie-Clare is the daughter of Jeff Knapton, and has one sister, Abi, who was a six-time All-America diver at Nebraska (2017-21).  An agricultural business major, Nettie was named to the Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Team in 2023 and 2024.

Career-Best Dives

Event	Score	Meet (Date)
One Meter	267.85	Mountain West Championships (2024)
Three Meter	296.33	Illinois (2025)
Platform	238.00	Hawkeye Invite (2024)