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Zhu Claims Second Straight Big Ten Diver of the Week Award
10/26/2022 2:58:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota fifth-year senior Joy Zhu has been named the Big Ten Women's Diver of the Week for the second week in a row, the conference announced Wednesday.
Zhu swept both diving events as Minnesota topped SMU in a dual meet last week.
The reigning Big Ten Diver of the Week, Zhu won the 3-meter by over 62 points with her score of 341.93 and remained undefeated on the young season as she captured first on the 1-meter as her score of 305.25 was 38 points clear of the field.
It's the fifth time in her career that Zhu has been named the Big Ten Diver of the Week, previously earning the distinction three times as a sophomore in the 2019-20 season and last week.
She becomes the fifth Gopher to win the award at least five times in a career. Only Maggie Keefer (15), Yu Zhou (14), Kelci Bryant (7) and Sarah Bacon (5) have won the award more times in Gophers history.
Zhu is also the first Big Ten diver to take home the award in consecutive weeks since Iowa's Jayah Mathews in Nov. of 2019. The last time the Gophers had back-to-back Divers of the Week came in Oct. of 2018 when Kristen Hayden and Mariam Khamis accomplished the feat. Current Gopher diving graduate assistant Yu Zhou was the most recent Minnesota individual to win the award two weeks in a row, doing so in November and December of 2016.
The Gophers return to action this week with a home tri-dual against St. Thomas and South Dakota State. The competition starts Friday at 5 p.m. at Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.
Zhu swept both diving events as Minnesota topped SMU in a dual meet last week.
The reigning Big Ten Diver of the Week, Zhu won the 3-meter by over 62 points with her score of 341.93 and remained undefeated on the young season as she captured first on the 1-meter as her score of 305.25 was 38 points clear of the field.
It's the fifth time in her career that Zhu has been named the Big Ten Diver of the Week, previously earning the distinction three times as a sophomore in the 2019-20 season and last week.
She becomes the fifth Gopher to win the award at least five times in a career. Only Maggie Keefer (15), Yu Zhou (14), Kelci Bryant (7) and Sarah Bacon (5) have won the award more times in Gophers history.
Zhu is also the first Big Ten diver to take home the award in consecutive weeks since Iowa's Jayah Mathews in Nov. of 2019. The last time the Gophers had back-to-back Divers of the Week came in Oct. of 2018 when Kristen Hayden and Mariam Khamis accomplished the feat. Current Gopher diving graduate assistant Yu Zhou was the most recent Minnesota individual to win the award two weeks in a row, doing so in November and December of 2016.
The Gophers return to action this week with a home tri-dual against St. Thomas and South Dakota State. The competition starts Friday at 5 p.m. at Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.
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