Monteserrat Lavenant enters her second season on the Hilltop in 2026-27
In the 2025-26 season, SMU's diving program has reached new heights. With guidance from Lavenant, all four male divers earned at least one NCAA Zone Cut, with Grant Cates and Luke Sitz advancing to the NCAA Championships.
Sitz put on a clinic at the 2026 NCAA DI Men's Swimming & Diving Championships, coming back to Dallas with a national championship and a silver medal. On 1-meter, the diver put up a score of 428.10 to win SMU's first national title in the event. Sitz secured a silver medal on 3-meter after breaking the school record twice in a single day. At the finals, he posted a mark of 495.30, the highest 3-meter score in SMU history and just 2.45 points from a first-place finish.
Earlier in the season, Lavenant also helped coach Sitz to success at the conference level, with the sophomore nabbing SMU's first individual ACC Championship. On 1-meter, he threw down a then-school record of 429.75 to place first. After scoring a 420.60 on 3-meter, Sitz earned a bronze medal. Throughout the 2025-26 season, the All-American was awarded five ACC Diver of the Week honors, bringing his career total to 11.
Lavenant joined the SMU Diving staff after competing for five years at LSU. She is a nine-time NCAA Honorable Mention All-American (Three-Meter x2) (One-Meter x3) (Platform x4), 14-time NCAA Qualifier, 2025 NCAA Runner-Up (Platform), 2025 SEC Co-Diver of the year and 2025 CSCAA All-American (1m & Platform-First Team).
A decorated collegiate diver, Lavenant was the 2025 SEC Champion (Platform), 2024 NCAA Runner-Up (Platform), 2024 SEC Female Diver of the Year, 2024 SEC Female Diver of the Meet, 2024 SEC Champion (Three-Meter), 2024 SEC Silver Medalist (Platform), 2024 SEC Bronze Medalist (One-Meter), 2023 NCAA Runner-Up (Platform), 2023 SEC Champion (Platform), 2023 Two-time SEC Female Diver of the Week, 2021 SEC Freshman Diver of the Year 2021 Two-time SEC Female Diver of the Week x2 and 2021 SEC Freshman of the week.
The Tijuana, Mexico, native holds the LSU program record on platform (375.40).
On the international stage, Lavenant placed 8th on platform at the 2020 Tokyo World Cup.
