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Honors & Awards
- Two Letters (1998, 1999)
- First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (1998)
Sophomore (1998-99)
For her second Big 12 Conference Championships, Amanda Zins added competitive scores to the sheet on all of the boards. She leveraged a fifth-place finish on the one-meter board with a score of 402.80. She later went on to a sixth-place finish on the three-meter (461.15) and 11th on the platform board (461.15). During the season, she reached first against Colorado State on the one-meter board (300.60) and on the three-meter board against SMU (313.64).
Freshman (1997-98)
At the conference championships, Zins finished fourth in her first collegiate competition on the 10-meter platform (283.23), fifth on the three-meter board (481.10) and seventh on the one-meter board (394.25). At the NCAA Zone D Championships, she finished in seventh on the one-meter (364.85) and 10th on the three-meter (427.65). She recorded 11 first-place finishes during the season (five, one meter and six, three meter). She swept the diving events at the Husker Shoot Out, the Florida Atlantic/Villanova triangular and at the Missouri and Iowa State duals. She set a season-best score on the one-meter of 268.27 against Iowa State. She also won the one-meter board at the Big 12 Invite and the three-meter at the Minnesota/Texas A&M triangular, the latter producing a season-best three-meter dual score of 304.70. She finished as a runner-up five times during the season, including a second-place finish at the SMU Classic on the one-meter board (282.95). She finished in third on the one-meter board at the Texas Invite (373.35). She made the first-team academic All-Big 12 team.
Before Nebraska
Zins was a three-time Nebraska state high school diving champion (1995-1997). She received All-America and honorable-mention All-America awards as a member of the Lincoln East diving team. She also competed for the Nebraska diving club under the guidance of Husker coach Jim Hocking. She placed fifth at nationals in 1995 and earned age-group regional and Great Plains wins.
Personal
Amanda was born on February 2, 1979, to William and Karen Zins.