Slavik & Watts Sweep MIAC Athlete of the Week Honors

By: Ryan Klinkner, SJU Director of Athletic Communications

MIAC Release

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Saint John’s junior Brayden Slavik (Green Isle, Minn./Chaska) and junior Cody Watts (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) had been named the MIAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week, respectively, on Tuesday, Jan. 27.

The weekly honor is Slavik’s sixth of the season (third-consecutive) and twelfth of his profession, whereas Watts’ award is his fourth of the season and sixth of his three-year profession.

Slavik gained three occasions for the second-straight week, together with a pool-record time of 16:10.20 within the 1,650-yard freestyle, within the Johnnies’ 157-143 residence win over Carleton on Saturday (Jan. 24). The earlier pool report was 16:23.13 set by St. Olaf’s Ryan Palmer in 2000. Slavik was additionally first within the 200-yard backstroke (1:56.32) and 200-yard particular person medley (1:57.65). He was additionally the ultimate leg of the Johnnies’ first-place, 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:26.91. 

Watts, in the meantime, topped the reigning MIAC Men’s Diving Athlete of the Week and final season’s MIAC Diver of the Year, the Knights’ Hans Anderson, to win the 1- (273.70) and 3-meter (238.65) dives.

The Johnnies return to the pool in two weeks with two occasions. SJU competes on the two-day First Chance Meet hosted by Division I Minnesota on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 6-7, on the Jean Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, whereas the divers journey additional south for the Dodd Road Diving Invitational on Feb. 7 at Carleton in Northfield.