Courtesy: Huge 12 Sports activities
Arizona State’s Ilya Kharun (males’s swimmer), Tommy Palmer (males’s newcomer) and Caroline Bentz (girls’s swimmer and newcomer) swept the swimming awards for the Solar Devils as BYU’s Alexia Jackson Hansen (girls’s diver) and West Virginia’s Owen Recker (males’s diver) collected the diving awards.
Kharun began his season with three particular person wins and added a relay win towards UNLV. The sophomore from Las Vegas, Nevada highlighted his meet by touching the pad over 5 seconds forward of second place within the 200 fly (1:39.47). Kharun prevailed within the 100 fly (44.57) by over 1.5 seconds and the 200 IM (1:44.57) by greater than two seconds. He totaled 38 factors for the meet because the Solar Devils defeated UNLV, 217-83.
Bentz collected each the Girls’s Swimmer of the Week in addition to the Girls’s Newcomer of the Week along with her efficiency towards the Rebels. The graduate switch tallied 35 factors within the meet with wins within the 200 again (1:55.29), 200 medley relay (1:37.05; 21.64) and 400 free relay (3:18.87; 49.22). Her weekend was spotlighted by her 21.64 break up within the 200 medley relay, which broke the school-record that was set in 2019. The King George, Virginia native added a second-place end within the 100 again (52.68) to finish her occasions.
Palmer made his Solar Devils debut and earned a top-three end in all 4 of his occasions. The junior switch from Arizona helped ASU win the 400 free relay (2:51.68) with a 43.28 break up and completed runner-up within the 200 medley relay (1:25.35). In his particular person occasions, he achieved second place within the 50 free (19.59) and third place within the 100 fly (46.57) behind solely teammates Ilya Kharun, Jonny Kulow, and Filip Senc-Samardzic.
Jackson Hansen opened her season with two victories on the Intermountain Shootout within the 3-meter dive (six dives) and the 1-meter dive (11 dives). Within the 3-meter dive, the junior received by over 54 factors with a rating of 306 and adopted that up with a rating of 426.53 to comb the diving competitions. It’s her second profession Huge 12 weekly award after she was named the Huge 12 Girls’s Diver of the Week in January of final season.
Recker earned two NCAA Zone Diving scores on the West Virginia State Video games. The sophomore received the 1-meter dive with a rating of 322.80 and completed runner-up on the 3-meter dive (323.55). It’s Recker’s first Convention weekly award of his profession.
Huge 12 Swimming and Diving Weekly Awards- October 9
Males’s Swimmer of the Week
Ilya Kharun, Arizona State
Males’s Diver of the Week
Owen Recker, West Virginia
Males’s Newcomer of the Week
Tommy Palmer, Arizona State
Girls’s Swimmer of the Week
Caroline Bentz, Arizona State
Girls’s Diver of the Week
Alexia Jackson Hansen, BYU
Girls’s Newcomer of the Week
Caroline Bentz, Arizona State
