Swim and Dive sweep weekly SAA Awards

Centre Swimming and Diving swept the SAA Athletes of the Week awards, as introduced by convention officers on Tuesday.

On the boys’s facet, Jack Liau earned the weekly swimming honor. In the Berry College Invite on Friday, Jack Liau received the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:55.30 and a margin of victory of seven.7 seconds. He additionally received the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 51.84 seconds. He positioned Third within the 200-yard IM and was a part of Centre’s 200-yard medley relay that completed 2nd. In the Sewanee Relays on Saturday, Liau was a part of a Third-place effort within the 200 medley relay. In the 200 butterfly relay, Liau swam the opening leg in 24.01 seconds, the quickest of all Colonel swimmers. He was additionally the quickest of the 4 Colonels within the 400 IM relay by over 3 seconds and the quickest within the 200 combined medley relay. 

Garrett George got here away with the diving honor after successful the 3-meter dive competitors on the Centre Diving Invite on Saturday with a complete rating of 336.00. He additionally positioned 2nd within the 1-meter competitors, scoring 291.15.

Caroline Lee received the ladies’s swimming honor for the week. At the Berry College Invite on Friday, Caroline Lee received the 100-yard backstroke, the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle. She additionally swam the anchor leg in Centre’s win within the 200-yard medley relay, which the Colonels received by over 2 seconds. At Saturday’s Sewanee Relays, Lee swam anchor in Centre’s 2nd place end within the 400 IM. She led off in a third place effort within the 200 again and in addition completed Third within the 500 crescendo and swam anchor on Centre’s fifth place within the 200 combined medley. 

Erin Dannemiller earned the diving award after she received the 3-meter competitors within the Centre Diving Invite on Saturday with a complete rating of 190.80. She additionally completed 2nd on the 1-meter board with a rating of 209.77, simply 1.59 factors away from the win.

All 4 are again in motion tonight as Centre hosts a tri-match in opposition to Campbellsville and Midway inside Champions Hall, beginning at 6:30pm. Both competitions shall be streamed reside on centrecolonels.com/watch.