DENVER - Northern Arizona's Raquel Gonzales have been named Western Athletic Conference Women's Diver of the Week, respectively, for Jan. 29-Feb. 4.
Gonzales, a junior from Chandler, Ariz., won the platform event during NAU's Quad Diving Meet last Saturday featuring divers from NAU, New Mexico, Boise State and NM State. After qualifying third in the prelims with a score of 220.25, Gonzales improved her score in the finals to win with a total of 244.30. Her finals score was an NCAA Zone Qualifying mark, a career-best and was the second-best platform score in program history. She also placed fourth on the three-meter board with a score of 279.00.
Other diver nominees: NM State's Raina Brommer finished fourth in the platform event with a score of 203.65 and finished seventh in both the one-meter (240.45) and three-meter (263.25).