SDSU's Schreier and USD's Hoffman Named Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week
ELMHURST, Ill. - South Dakota State's Chris Schreier and South
Dakota's Elizabeth Hoffman were named Summit League Swimming and
Diving Athletes of the Week for their performances during the week
of Nov. 1-7.
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Chris Schreier, South Dakota State
Fr., Portage, Ind./Portage
Schreier earns his second career Swimming and Diving
Athlete of the Week award of the season after setting two school
and pool records in the Jackrabbits loss to Green Bay
(122.5-120.5). He won the 200 Free and 200 Fly, where he won the
event by more than seven seconds, setting a school and pool record
of 1:51.96, the fastest league time of the season. Schreier was
then part of the first-place 400 IM Relay team that also set a
school and pool record with a time of 3:29.89, the second best in
the league.
Also nominated: Amr el Sayed, Oakland; Thad Stoddard, South
Dakota
Previous Winners: Nov. 2 - Brad Schoreit, South Dakota
State; Oct. 26 - Nick Evans, Oakland; Oct. 19 - Chris Schreier,
South Dakota State; Oct. 12 - Tyler McGowan, IUPUI
WOMEN
Elizabeth Hoffman, South Dakota
Jr., Eureka, S.D./Eureka
Hoffman earns her second career Swimming and Diving
Athlete of the Week and her first of the season after winning all
five individual events she competed in last week and setting two
South Dakota pool records. She started off the weekend against
Northern Iowa by winning the 50 Free, matching the second best
league time she set earlier this season (24:56), 1,000 Free
(10:36.77), the fifth best league time, and the 200 Back (2:10.69),
the third best league time, and was a part of the first-place 200
Free Relay team (1:39.88), the third best league time. Hoffman
then went on to win the 200 and 400 Free against Green Bay and was
a part of the 200 Free Relay team that set a USD pool record of
1:51.62, in which she also set a 50 Free pool record of 27.36.
Also nominated: Marcella Barretta, Oakland; Jessica Ferley,
South Dakota State
Previous Winners: Nov. 2 - Vanessza Balogh, Oakland; Oct. 26
- Lizzie Bourgeois, IUPUI; Oct. 19 - Vanessza Balogh, Oakland; Oct.
12 - Katelyn Cato, IUPUI
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