6 wins powers Savoy to Big Ten men’s Swimmer of Week award

The following is a press release courtesy of the Big Ten Conference:

Swimmer of the Week

Nate Savoy, Penn State

Sr. – Reading, Pa. – Wilson

  • Tallied five first-place finishes in Penn State’s dual meet against Yale
  • Finished first in the 100 backstroke (48.65), 200 backstroke (1:47.08), 200 individual medley (1:50.51), 200 medley relay (1:29.60), 400 freestyle relay (2:58.98) and 200 freestyle relay (1:21.66)
  • Earns his first Swimmer of the Week honor
  • Last Penn State Swimmer of the Week: Shane Ryan (Nov. 12, 2013)

 

Diver of the Week
Michael Hixon, Indiana

So. – Amherst, Mass. – Amherst Regional

  • Collected first-place finishes in the one-meter and three-meter diving events in Indiana’s tri-dual against Wisconsin and Notre Dame
  • Scored 444.20 points on one-meter and 433.65 points in three-meter diving
  • Tallied NCAA Zone Qualifying scores in both events
  • Earns his fourth Diver of the Week honor
  • Last Indiana Diver of the Week: Michael Hixon (Dec. 23, 2014)

 

Freshman of the Week

Blake Pieroni, Indiana

Fr. – Valparaiso, Ind. – Chesterton

  • Collected five first-place finishes in Indiana’s tri-dual against Wisconsin and Notre Dame
  • Finished first in the 100 freestyle (44.82), 200 freestyle (1:36.62), 200 freestyle relay (1:21.92), 400 medley relay (3:16.26) and 800 freestyle relay (6:34.47)
  • Recorded an NCAA provisional qualifying mark in the 200 freestyle
  • Earns his second Freshman of the Week honor
  • Last Indiana Freshman of the Week: Blake Pieroni (Dec. 9, 2014)

 

2014-15 Big Ten Men’s Swimmer/Diver of the Week
Oct. 7
S: Richard Funk, Sr., MICH
D: Manny Pollard, Jr., MINN
F: Aaron Whitaker, Fr., MICH

Oct. 14
S: Anze Tavcar, So., IND
D: James Connor, Fr., IND
F: Ali Khalafalla, Fr., IND

Oct. 21
S: Matt Hutchins, So., WIS
D/F: Steele Johnson, PUR

Oct. 28
S: Dylan Bosch, Jr., MICH
D: Michael Hixon, So., IND
F: Paul Powers, MICH
F: Steele Johnson, PUR

Nov. 4
S: Anze Tavcar, So., IND
D: Michael Hixon, So., IND
F: Jerzy Twarowski, IOWA
Nov. 11
S: Josh Fleagle, Jr., OSU
D: Steele Johnson, Fr., PUR
F: Evan White, MICH

 

Nov. 18

S: Drew teDuits, Sr., WIS

D: John Andrade, Sr., NU

F: Lachie McLeish, MSU

 

Nov. 25

S: Jordan Wilimovsky, Jr., NU

D: Steele Johnson, Fr., PUR

F: Braydon Seal, OSU

 

Dec. 9

S: Dylan Bosch, Jr., MICH

D: Manny Pollard, Jr., MINN

F: Blake Pieroni, IND

F: Evan White, MICH

 

Dec. 23

D: Michael Hixon, So., IND

F: Steele Johnson, PUR

 

Jan. 13

S: Matt Hutchins, So., WIS

D/F: Steele Johnson, PUR

 

Jan. 20

S: Nate Savoy, Sr., PSU
D: Michael Hixon, So., IND
F: Blake Pieroni, IND

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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