Petersen Repeats as Big 12 Diver of the Year, Marschner Named Diving Coach of the Year

IRVING, Texas – Senior Elias Petersen has been named the Big 12 Conference Men’s Diver of the Year whereas head diving coach Richard Marschner was voted the convention’s Men’s Diving Co-Coach of the Year. Both males earned yearly honors from the Big 12 a season in the past.
 

Petersen is the lone student-athlete in Utah Swimming & Diving program historical past to earn a Big 12 yearly award.
 
The Malmo, Sweden, native earned a pair of all-America honors this season, repeating as a First Team All-American on the 1-meter springboard and a Second Team All-American on 3-meter. Petersen recorded probably the most factors by a Utah diver at a single NCAA Championships with 12, ending seventh total on the 1-meter and twelfth on 3-meter. The senior gained gold on 1-meter, silver on 3-meter and positioned sixth on platform on the Big 12 Championships in North Carolina on prime of main the Utah males to a group occasion gold medal for the primary time in program historical past.
 
Petersen capped his senior season with 10 complete gold medals and leaves as the varsity file holder on the 1-meter board.
 
Marschner was named the Big 12 Men’s Diver Co-Coach of the Year alongside Arizona’s Dwight Dumais. Marschner led the Utah males’s diving program to new heights, as his divers gained gold within the group occasion and 1-meter on the convention championship and went on to position within the prime 10 on all three occasions at NCAA Zone Championships. He then helped Petersen rating probably the most factors ever by a Utah Ute on the NCAA Championships.
 
Marschner additionally led the ladies of Utah to probably the most diving factors by any Big 12 squad on the convention championships behind six championship last qualifiers, coached Callie Eaglestone to an NCAA Zone E Championship – the primary ever by a Utah lady – on 1-meter, and guided a pair of NCAA Championship qualifiers.
 
Along with yearly awards, the convention introduced the alternatives for the First Team and Second Team All-Big 12 squads. The prime 4 finishers in every occasion on the Big 12 Championship earned all-conference first group honors, whereas people who positioned fifth by means of eighth earned second-team recognition.
 
Utah had 15 student-athletes earn first or second group honors, as listed beneath:
 
Men’s All-Big 12 First Team

 
Men’s All-Big 12 Second Team

 
Women’s All-Big 12 First Team

 
Women’s All-Big 12 Second Team

 
Big 12 Conference Yearly Award Winners

• Men’s Swimmer of the Year – Ilya Kharun, Arizona State
• Women’s Swimmer of the Year – Joleigh Crye, Cincinnati
• Men’s Diver of the Year – Elias Petersen, Utah
• Women’s Diver of the Year – Shiyun Lai, Kansas
• Men’s Freshman of the Year – Luke Hernandez, Arizona
• Women’s Freshman of the Year – Albane Cachot, Arizona State
• Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year – Herbie Behm, Arizona State
• Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year – Ben Loorz, Arizona
• Men’s Diving Co-Coaches of the Year – Dwight Dumais, Arizona and Richard Marschner, Utah
• Women’s Diving Co-Coaches of the Year – Robert Gunter, Houston and Allen Feng, Kansas
• Men’s Scholar Athlete of the Year – Jonny Kulow, Arizona State
• Women’s Scholar Athlete of the Year – Mia Hensley, Cincinnati

 
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