This Tuesday, Conference USA announced their Swimmer and Diver of the Week.
Swimmer of the Week, Jessica Chadwick, Florida International University
Jessica Chadwick (Courtesy: FIU Athletics)
FIU Panter’s Jessica Chadwick was announced as this week’s swimmer of the week for Conference USA. The senior from the U.K. specializes in breaststroke and IM events. Her performance at the North Florida Dual Meet on the 3rd contributed to receiving these honors. She was responsible for four of FIU ‘s 11 first place finishes. This is the first time Chadwick has won this C-USA honor.
Of this honor, Jessica told SwimSwam “I’m excited to be this week’s C-USA swimmer of the week, it was a good start to the season, and I am looking forward to competing with the team for the rest of the season.”
Chadwick will be back in the pool with her Panther teammates when they host Dual-a-Palooza this weekend. The meet will feature Rice, Miami (Fla.) and Florida Atlantic.
Diver of the Week: Jasmine Abercrombie, North Texas
Jasmine Abercrombie (Photo by Rick Yeatts, Courtesy North Texas Athletics)
The Mean Green’s Jasmine Abercrombie was announced as this week’s diver of the week for Conference USA. In 2014-2015 Abercrombie, who is in her senior year at North Texas, placed seventh at the C-USA Championships last year, which was good for an eighth -best performance in school history. She was also the team’s top performer on the three meter and platform, as well as the second best performer on the one meter.
This is Abercrombie’s second time winning this honor, she also received it in February of 2015. This is also the first Diver of the Week that the Mean Green have won under new diving coach Mark Murdock.
Head coach Brendon Bray told SwimSwam that “Jasmine is one of the hardest working divers we have ever had on our team and her award is very well deserved. It’s a product of all the hard work she has done leading up to it.” Of the award, Abercrombie stated “This honor helps to assure me that I am going in the right direction with a new coaching style and a new training style. And the whole team did phenomenal. If we continue to trust in the program we will only go up from here.”
Abercrombie and the North Texas swimming and diving team will return to the pool on Friday, Oct. 23, for a dual meet at Texas A&M.