Anthony Crowder

Biography

The 2024-25 campaign saw two individuals excel and qualify for the NCAA Championships, as David Ekdahl and Anna Kwong earned their spot at the final stage. Ekdahl took home gold on both 1-meter and 3-meter for the Horned Frogs, while Kwong won on 3-meter. Kwong set the school record on 3-meter in a dual against Iowa State, scoring a 415.28. During the 2021-22 season the TCU divers earned a record-high 38 NCAA Zone D qualification scores on the women’s side and 32 from the men in a season. During the Big 12 Championships, David Ekdahl made school history becoming the first TCU diver to ever win gold, doing so with a school-record score of 388.50 on 1-meter. TCU diving earned 12 Big 12 finals appearances. For the first time in eight years, TCU qualified for the NCAA National Championships with both David Ekdahl and Alec Hubbard qualifying. This marked the first time in TCU history that multiple divers qualified in the same year. TCU divers were awarded Big 12 Diver of the Week six times, David Ekdahl (3), Anna Kwong (2), Alec Hubbard (1). TCU divers captured 21 total NCAA Zone D qualification scores covering all three events. In the 2021 Big 12 Conference finals, Connie Deighton broke the school record on tower with a score of 251.4. During the 2021 Big 12 Conference Championships, the divers earned five total finals appearances. Izzy Ashdown and Deighton qualified for the finals at Zone D, which marked the third straight year a TCU diver had done so. In Crowder’s second season