http://www.miac-online.org/news/2012/1/30/WSWIM_0130121115.aspx

MIAC Women's Swimming and Diving Athlete-of-the-Week

Jennifer Easton, St. Thomas
Eden Prairie, Minn. / Eden Prairie

The St. Thomas women's swimming and diving team couldn't possibly ask for more out of diver Jennifer Easton (Eden Prairie, Minn.) than what the senior All-American contributed over the weekend. In Friday's dual and Saturday's invitational, Easton swept both the 1- and 3-meter diving events in both competitions, setting two new school records in the process. However, her crowning achievement came in Saturday's 1-meter competition. Easton recorded a winning score of 461.50, which is a new MIAC record, beating out Carleton's Angie Soucek who set the previous mark in 2001. For per record-setting performance, Easton has been named the MIAC Women's Swimming and Diving Athlete-of-the-Week.

Easton's record diving performance came Saturday at the St. Catherine Invitational, where she also won the 3-meter diving title with a score of 416.10. Both victories were absolutely essential to the Tommies, who edged Saint Benedict for the team title by less than a point, 700.0 to 699.5. Easton's record-setting performance came just a day after she also set a school record with a score of 273.15 on the 1-meter board for six dives. She won that event, as well as the 3-meter (267.50) in a home dual with Gustavus, to help UST seriously challenge the defending conference champs in a 158-141 loss. Easton now holds the top score in the MIAC in both 1-meter diving events (11 and six dives), the top 3-meter score for six dives, and she ranks second in the conference for 3-meter, 11 dives.

This weekend, Easton will try to re-create her diving magic when St. Thomas competes in the two-day Minnesota Challenge on both Friday and Saturday. Friday's action is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. , with Saturday's competition to begin at noon. The event will be held at the University of Minnesota's Aquatic Center, which will also again be the location for the 2012 MIAC Swimming and Diving Championships on Feb. 16, 17 and 18.

**There were no nominees for MIAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Athlete-of-the-Week this week.**