Missouri State Swimming and Diving will send three divers to Texas A&M to compete in the Zone D Diving Regional. Junior Eric Ducourneau and seniors Heather Fulton and Chelsea Ray will dive for a chance to compete in the national championship at Purdue University (women's championship) or Ohio State University (men's championship).

The Regional will go Friday through Sunday at the Student Recreation Natatorium. Diving gets started at the Rec at 11 a.m. each day. The women's one-meter (11 a.m. preliminary round/1 p.m. final) and men's three-meter (3 p.m. preliminary round/5 p.m. final) will be on Friday; the men's one-meter (11 a.m. preliminary round/1 p.m. final) and women's three-meter (3 p.m. preliminary round/5 p.m. final) on Saturday, and the men's and women's platform events will be contested on Sunday (11 a.m. prelim/1 p.m. final). Live results will be available on divemeets.com. The Bears will not compete in the platform events.

The Zone D Regional is one of five regionals across the country that will determine the diving field at the NCAA Championships. Other schools hosting zone regionals are the University of Texas (Austin, Texas), Rutgers University (Piscataway, N.J.), Georgia Tech (Atlanta, Ga.) and Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.).

The Zone D Regional will send a total of 20 divers -- eight men and 12 women -- to the NCAA Championships, which is the most of all five zone meets. The NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships will be March 18-20, while the men's meet is March 25-27.