Sturgill, Hazlehurst Named to to Big Ten Preseason Watch List

PISCATAWAY, N.J.- Two sophomores from Rutgers swimming and diving had been named to the Big Ten’s preseason Watch List. Bailee Sturgill and Ana Hazlehurst had been each acknowledged by the convention workplace.
 
Sturgill excelled in her freshman season ‘On the Banks’ final season as she was named the staff’s Newcomer of the Year. The diver from Noblesville, Ind. Was named Big Ten All-Freshman and was an NCAA Qualifier on the 1M, 3M and Platform. Sturgill was topped the NCAA Zone A platform champion and on the Big Ten Championships, she led the Scarlet Knights in qualifying for finals on each 1M and platform. In mid-May on the USA Diving Championships, Sturgill received gold as co-champion on ladies’s synchronized 3M and teamed up with classmate Katerina Hoffman to take bronze on ladies’s synchronized platform. She was additionally a finalist on senior ladies’s 3M, putting fifth.
 
Hazlehurst is about to start her sophomore season at RU as her first yr in Piscataway following a switch from one other Big Ten college in Indiana. Set to swim in butterfly and IM, she hails from Lutherville Timonium, simply exterior of Baltimore, Maryland. She was the highest feminine recruit from class of 2024 from Maryland, a USA Swimming Nationals qualifier, seven-time particular person state senior champion, and five-time Maryland Swimming LSC Champion She additionally broke a 31-year-old 100 breast file set by Olympic gold medalist Anita Nall
 
Rutgers swimming and diving is about to start out the upcoming season this October. The staff’s season opener is available in a house meet on Saturday, October 11 when the staff hosts St. Bonaventure and Fordham.