Tess Boyer garners CCIW Women’s Swimming Student-Athlete of the Week recognition

Wheaton, Ill. — Following a headline efficiency within the Thunder swimming & diving groups’ twin meet in opposition to Carthage College, Wheaton’s Tess Boyer has been named the CCIW Women’s Swimming Student-Athlete of the Week. Today’s announcement marks Boyer’s second weekly accolade of the season and the ninth of her profession. Wheaton has now earned three of this 12 months’s 5 Women’s Swimmer of the Week nods after Aubrey Swanson collected the distinction final week.

The junior went an ideal 7-for-7 in every of her occasions on Friday and Saturday, successful three particular person competitions and competing on 4 victorious relay squads. Boyer helped lead Wheaton to first-place finishes within the blended 200-yard freestyle, the ladies’s 200- and 400-yard medley, and the 400 free relays, posting a CCIW-best time within the 400 medley alongside Swanson, Lydia Hansen, and Savannah Jeffery.

The Kansas native registered new conference-leading time marks in all three of her solo swims final weekend. She received the girls’s 100-yard freestyle race with a time of 53.39 and prolonged her dominance within the particular person medley class with victories within the 200-yard and 400-yard editions. Boyer’s time of 2:06.91 within the former ranks twelfth in all of Division III this 12 months whereas her D3B minimize time of 4:28.98 within the latter is at present the fifth-fastest line within the nation.