MIAC Swimming and Diving Athletes-of-the-Week
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Nick
Johnson, St. Thomas
Blaine, Minn. / Blaine
It hasn't taken St.
Thomas diver Nick Johnson (Blaine, MInn.) long to
get into midseason form this season. Friday, he helped the Tommies
score a 120-52 dual win over conference rival Macalester in the
team's 2011-12 season and home opener. Johnson won both diving
events - finishing first on both the one-meter and three-meter
boards - while qualifying for the NCAA Division III Championships
on the 3-meter board in his season debut. For his performance,
Johnson was chosen as the inaugural winner of the MIAC Men's
Swimming and Diving Athlete-of-the-Week award for the 2011-12
season.
Johnson claimed first place on the 1-meter diving board with a
score of 260.1 points, and he followed with a score of 290.75 to
also finish first on the 3-meter board. Johnson easily met the
qualifying standards (145) for the 2012 MIAC Championships on both
boards, and his impressive score on the 3-meter board qualifies him
for the 2012 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving National
Championships. The 2011 qualifying mark was 285 points, so Johnson
easily passed that in his first time out this season. Last season,
Johnson qualified for the MIAC finals on the 3-meter board as a
freshman, finishing sixth at the MIAC Championships.
St. Thomas and its sophomore diver will have one more dual meet
against a MIAC team - Saturday against Carleton in Northfield,
Minn. - before starting its invitational appearances this season.
Next Saturday, Nov. 19, the Tommies will compete at the Roger
Ahlman Invitational before hosting their own two-day invite on Dec.
2-3.
MIAC Women's Swimming and Diving Athlete-of-the-Week
Sarah
Moody, St. Catherine
Centerville, Minn. / Centennial
St. Catherine senior Sarah Moody
(Centerville, Minn./Centennial) appears to have picked up right
where she left off after completing an amazing junior season on the
diving board a year ago. Moody - the 2011 MIAC Women's
Diver-of-the-Year - started the 2011-12 season exceptionally strong
with a pair of first-place finishes Friday at the Northfield
Women's Quad, hosted by Carleton. The Wildcats' star won both the
1-meter and 3-meter diving titles at the meet while qualifying for
nationals on the 3-meter board. Thanks to her performance, Moody
has been selected as the first 2011 MIAC Women's Swimming and
Diving Athlete-of-the-Week of the 2011-12 season.
Moody finished first on the 1-meter board with a score of 235.15,
and she won the 3-meter board with a score of 265.90, beating
divers from Carleton, St. Olaf and Division III Minnesota State
University-Moorhead. She beat the runner up by 16.6 points on the
1-meter board, and won by 30 points on the 3-meter board. Both of
her scored easily qualified her for the 2012 MIAC Championships -
where she won both events last year - and her 3-meter score met the
2012 NCAA Division III qualifying standard.
The St. Catherine swimming and diving team and its star diver will
continue the early part of its 2011-12 schedule this week, starting
with its participation Tuesday in the "Hour of Power." The Wildcats
will then take 10 days off before competing in the
Concordia/Augsburg double dual on Nov. 18 on the St. Catherine
campus and the Roger Ahlman Invite at Macalester on Nov.
19.
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MIAC
