Emory University seniors Liz Horvat and Matt Spooner were named the University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimmers of the Week, while junior Daniel Kolb earned Diver of the Week honors, after their performances at the conference championship meet.

Horvat capped off her incredible UAA career with four conference championships, three conference-record times, and her second-straight UAA Swimmer of the Year honor at the UAA Championships.  Horvat won the 500-yard freestyle with a UAA-record and NCAA ‘A’ cut time of 4:52.65.  She also set a conference record in the 400-yard individual medley with an ‘A’ cut time of 4:18.48.  Horvat swam the anchor leg of the Eagles’ winning 800-yard freestyle relay team, which set a UAA record with a ‘B’ cut time of 7:33.94.  Rounding out the meet, she won the 1,650-yard freestyle with an ‘A’ cut time of 16:53.88.  It marked the second-consecutive year that Horvat was named the UAA Swimmer of the Year, as the senior won the 500-yard freestyle, 400-yard individual medley and 1,650-yard freestyle at the UAA Championships each year of her four-year career.

Spooner was named the UAA Men’s Swimmer of the Year after finishing first in three events and setting a record at the conference championship meet.  Spooner won the 400-yard individual medley with a UAA record time of 4:01.08, good for an NCAA ‘B’ cut.  He won the 200-yard individual medley as well with an ‘A’ cut time of 1:51.90, just a hundredth of a second shy of the UAA record.  Spooner swam the third leg of the Eagles’ 800-yard freestyle relay team, which won the event with a ‘B’ cut time of 6:50.29.  He also finished fourth in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:53.83.  Spooner became the first Eagle to be named UAA Swimmer of the Year since 2000.

Kolb was named the UAA Diver of the Year at the 2011 UAA Swimming and Diving Championships.  Kolb won the three-meter dive on Friday with a school record and NCAA qualifying score of 506.85, less than two points shy of the UAA record.  On Wednesday, he won the one-meter dive with school-record scores of 484.45 in the preliminaries and 476.35 in the finals.  Kolb became the first Eagle to be named the UAA’s Diver of the Year since Mike Klein in 2006.

Both the Emory men and women claimed their 13^th-consecutive UAA Championships this past weekend, as each squad set meet scoring records.

The following members of the Emory Swimming & Diving team have earned UAA Athlete of the Week honors this season:

November 1^st
Peter O’Brien (Men’s Swimming)
Daniel Kolb (Men’s Diving)
Leslie Hackler (Women’s Swimming)
Sarah Greene (Women’s Diving)

November 8^th
April Whitley (Women’s Swimming)

November 15^th
Patrick Augustyn (Men’s Swimming)
Claire Pavlak (Women’s Swimming)

December 6^th
Peter O’Brien (Men’s Swimming)
April Whitley (Women’s Swimming)

January 24^th
Patrick Augustyn (Men’s Swimming)

January 31^st
Paul Weinstein (Men’s Swimming)

February 7^th
Patrick Augustyn (Men’s Swimming)
Kolin Smialek (Men’s Diving)
Liz Horvat (Women’s Swimming)
Sarah Greene (Women’s Diving)

February 21^st
Matt Spooner (Men’s Swimming)
Daniel Kolb (Men’s Diving)
Liz Horvat (Women’s Swimming)