DENVER - Grand Canyon's Iryna Glvnyk and Northern Arizona's Christina Torrente have been named Western Athletic Conference Women's Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively, for Jan. 22-28.
Glvnyk, a senior from Kiev, Ukraine, took home two individual victories and a second-place finish with her relay team this past weekend. She finished first in the 200 back with a second-best WAC time of 1:59.38. She also produced a WAC sixth-best in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:03.79. Glvnyk also left the weekend with a second-place finish in the 100 back (55.45). When she joined her relay team, she contributed to the second-place finish in the 200 yard medley relay as they posted a time of 1:44.20.
Torrente, a junior from Redmond, Wash., swept the diving events for the third consecutive dual meet this past weekend against Boise State. She posted a score of 277.05 on the one-meter board and then with the three-meter competition she was victorious again with a score of 296.55.
Other swimmer nominees: CSU Bakersfield's Jayssie Haynes broke a couple program records as she swam the 1,650 free in a time of 16:48.91 for first place and the 1,000 free in 10:09.95, she also finished the 100 fly in 59.64 seconds and joined the 200 free relay team to finish in 1:42.78 … Idaho's Leah Fisk won four individual events (200 free in 1:54.66, 100 free in 53.13, 1,000 free in 10:52.15 and 100 free in 53.84) and added a second-place finish in the 500 free in 5:11.90, while also posting two relay victories (400 free relay in 3:35.49 and 200 free relay in 1:39.37) … NM State's Lauren Wood finished first in the 200 breast (2:22.42), second in the 200 individual medley (2:10.41) and third in the 100 breast (1:06.61) … Northern Arizona's Alina Staffeldt won both the 100 (56.10) and 200 (2:02.91) fly events, finished second in the 200 medley relay (1:43.22) and third in the 400 free relay (3:31.84).
Other diver nominees: CSU Bakersfield's Hannah Chernabaeff earned a pair of victories as she won the one-meter board with a score of 256.88 and the three-meter board with 258.15 … Idaho's Maren Seljevold placed third on both the one-meter board with 256.12 and the three-meter board with 277.35, but the next day broke a school record on the three-meter board as she posted a score of 337.70… NM State's Raina Brommer posted a 310.95 to place first on the three-meter board and was fifth on the one-meter board with a 251.63.