Meet Scoring
Dual meet:
Top three relays score, no team can score all the points
1st place: 8 points
2nd place: 4 points
3rd place: 2 points
Top five places score, 3 swimmers/divers per team
1st place: 6 points
2nd place: 4 points
3rd place: 3 points
4th place: 2 points
5th place: 1 points
Total points: 186. 94 points or more is a win
Sections meet:
All relays score points
1st place: 40 points
2nd place: 34 points
3rd place: 32 points
4th place: 30 points
5th place: 28 points
6th place: 26 points
7th place: 24 points
8th place: 22 points
Top 16 individual places score,
1st place: 20 points
2nd place: 17 points
3rd place: 16 points
4th place: 15 points
5th place: 14 points
6th place: 13 points
7th place: 12 points
8th place: 11 points
9th place: 9 points
10th place: 7 points
11th place: 6 points
12th place: 5 points
13th place: 4 points
14th place: 3 points
15th place: 2 points
16th place: 1 points
Diving:
| Dive Categories | Always 0 | # of ½ Rotations | Position |
| 1 – Front | 0 | 1 – Dive | A – Straight |
| 2 – Back | 0 | 2 – Somersault | B – Pike |
| 3 – Reverse | 0 | 3 – 1 ½ Somersault | C – Tuck |
| 4 – Inward | 0 | 4 – Double Somersault | D – Free |
| 5 – Twists | 0 |
For example: 101C is a front dive tuck, 202C is a back 1 somersault tuck.
Diving Scores
Each dive is given a degree of difficulty based on how challenging the dive is to perform. These difficulties range from 1.2 to 3.1 for high school competition. The judges' scores are then multiplied by the degree of difficulty to produce your individual dive score. In any diving competition, only 3 of the judges' scores will be multiplied by the degree of difficulty. At dual meets, there are only 3 judges. However, at conference meets, there can consist of panels of 5-9 judges. In this case the top and bottom scores are tossed out and the middle 3 scores are multiplied by the degree of difficulty. For example, if the dive was a 201C Back Dive Tuck, the degree of difficulty is a 1.5. If these are the scores:
Judge Score
1 - 4.5
2 - 4.5
3 - 3.0
4 - 4.0
5 - 5.5
scores from judge #3 and #5 would be tossed out. Leaving 4.5 + 4.5 + 4.0 = 13. Multiply that by the degree of difficulty 1.5 and you get a total score of 19.5 for that dive.
