Delaney Schnell

At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea in July, Schnell won a bronze medal in the 10 meter platform competition with a score of 364.20 points.[3] The following month, at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru, she won a bronze medal in the 10 meter synchronized platform with her partner Amelia Magaña, scoring within 40 points of the gold medal duo from Canada with a mark of 281.10 points.[4]

Schnell qualified to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the 10 meter platform and the synchronized 10 meter platform (with Jessica Parratto).[5][6] It was the first Olympic Games she qualified to compete in.[7] Schnell and Parratto placed second in the synchronized 10 meter platform and won the silver medal, which was the first Olympic medal for the United States in the event.[8] Individually, Schnell placed fifth in the final of the 10 meter platform event.[9]

At the 2022 Pac-12 Conference Championships, held at King County Aquatic Center in February 2022, Schnell won the 1 meter diving competition with a score of 332.55 points in the final.[10][11] The next day, she placed second in the 3 meter diving competition with a final score of 369.30 points.[12][13] On the third day of competition, she won the platform diving competition by over 17 points, scoring a total of 312.55 points in the final round of competition after scoring 308.60 points in the preliminary round.[14][15]

On the second day of the 2022 NCAA Division I Championships, Schnell ranked first in the prelims of the 1 meter event with a score of 334.10 points.[16] In the final of the event later in the day, she scored a total of 339.05 points and placed fifth.[17] She scored 348.40 points during the preliminary round of competition in the 3 meter event on the third day, qualifying for the final ranking seventh.[18] For the final round, she increased her score to 376.20 points and tied for fourth place.[19] The final day of competition, she ranked first in the prelims heats of the platform diving event with a score of 351.50 points, qualifying for the final 1.30 points ahead of the second-ranked diver.[20] In the final, she took second-place with a score of 345.10 points.[21]

For her first event of the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 10 meter synchronized platform on June 30 in Budapest, Hungary, Schnell won a silver medal, achieving a mark of 299.40 points in the final with her partner Katrina Young.[22][23] The silver medal tied the highest medal placing by the United States in a synchronized diving event at a FINA World Aquatics Championships.[24] In her second of two events, she won her second of two medals at the Championships, this time winning a bronze medal in the 10 meter mixed synchronized platform on July 1, where she scored 315.90 points with her partner Carson Tyler in the final.[25]

For her first event of the 2023 Pac-12 Conference Championships, the 1 meter springboard on day two, Schnell first achieved a score of 356.10 points for her six dives in the preliminaries to rank first, then won the conference title in the final with a mark of 355.50 points.[26] It was her third-consecutive conference title in the event.[27][28] Following a ranking of third in the preliminaries session of the 3 meter springboard the next day with a score of 330.50 points, she outscored the second highest-scoring competitor in the final by over 45 points with a final mark of 373.60 points that earned her the conference title in the event, which marked an improvement from her silver medal in the event at the 2022 Pac-12 Championships.[29][30] Her score was less than 15 points behind the Championships record of 387.75 points set by Blythe Hartley in 2006.[29] In the platform event on day four of four, she ranked first in the preliminaries with a score of 334.80 before going on to win the silver medal with a final mark of 325.05, which was 8.05 points behind the gold medalist.[31][32]

In the 1 meter springboard event on day two of the 2023 NCAA Division I Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee, Schnell ranked fourth in the preliminaries with a score of 311.15 points before winning the silver medal with a score of 340.05 points in the final. The third day, she placed fourth in the 3 meter springboard with a final mark of 362.30 points after scoring 350.80 points in the preliminaries and qualifying for the final ranking second.[33] On the final day of competition, she won the NCAA title in the 10 meter platform with a final score of 352.65 points that retained her first rank from the preliminaries, where she scored 323.95 points.[33][34][35] It marked the first NCAA title for a male or female Arizona Wildcats swimmer or diver since March 27, 2015, when Kevin Cordes won the NCAA title in the 100 yard breaststroke.[35]