Nettie Knapton Season 2024-25

Honors & Awards

• One Letter (2025)
• 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)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2025)

Junior (2024-25)
Nettie 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 during the season, including five on the three-meter board. 

At the Zone D Diving Championships in Iowa City, Iowa, Knapton finished 15th on platform (489.25), after producing a career-best 258.35 in prelims. She also finished in 46th in the three-meter event (246.00). 

Early in the year, Knapton notched a third-place finish with a career-best 296.33 on the three-meter dive in a dual win over Illinois at the Bob Devaney Natatorium in January. In a dual win over Iowa State, Knapton notched personal best on the one-meter board (257.78) on her way to fifth place. On the platform, Knapton finished sixth at the Hawkeye Invitational in November with a then-career-best 238.00. 

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. She earned a spot on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall of 2024. She was also a member of the 2025 Tom Osborne Citizenship Team.

Career-Best Dives

Event	Score	Meet (Date)
One Meter	267.85	Mountain West Championships (2024)
Three Meter	296.33	Illinois (2025)
Platform	258.35	NCAA Zone D Championships (2025)