DENVER ? Nevada sophomore Margaret Doolittle has been named the Western Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Athlete of the Week, for the week of Oct. 29 ? Nov. 4. This is the first WAC Athlete of the Week honor for Doolittle this season, and the second of her career.
Doolittle, a native of Sacramento, Calif. (C.K. McClatchy), posted outstanding performances in Nebraska, winning four individual events and swimming on two first-place Wolf Pack relays. Against Nebraska and Nebraska-Omaha on Friday, Doolittle touched the wall first in the 200-yard breaststroke and was a member of the winning 400-yard medley relay team. Her first-place time of 1:04.49 in the 100-yard breaststroke is the best in the WAC this season. Doolittle also swam to first-place finishes in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events, the 200-yard Individual Medley and the 400-yard medley relay against Iowa and Nebraska on Saturday. Her performance in the 200-yard IM also ranks first in the WAC this season. Doolittle guided the Wolf Pack to a 2-2 start as Nevada opened its 2007-08 season.
Other nominees included: Emma Berry of Hawai’i earned top honors in the 200 and 1,000-yard freestyle events and finished second in the 500 and 1,650-yard freestyle events and the 400-yard IM at the Lincoln Aquatics Shootout in Irvine, Calif. on Nov. 2-3 ... Tami Binek of Northern Arizona finished first in both the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard freestyle events leading the Lumberjacks to a win over Grand Canyon University, when the Lumberjacks captured all 11 meet events.
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