TicketSmarter WAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week Announced
DENVER – UNLV's Panos Bolanos and Califronia Baptist's Evan Honer has been named the TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Men's Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively, for Oct. 13 through 18.
Bolanos, a junior from Athens, Greece, led the Rebels to place second in the USC Invitational, Friday through Saturday. He opened his individual run with a runner-up finish in the 100 backstroke (47.48) with a NCAA B cut and current national top-ten time according to Collegeswimming. Bolanos gave the Rebels their only event win in the meet in the 200 backstoke (1:44.01) with another NCAA B cut time and putting him in the top-five in the nation according to Collegeswimming.
Honer, a junior from Surprise, Ariz., opened his season with a win and a runner-up finish at the Lancer Diving Invitationals, Saturday. Honer won the 3-meter dive with a 19.10-difficulty dive and a total score of 328.35. He also came in second in the one-meter dive with a 18.00-difficulty dive totaling a score of 309.68.
Other swimmer nominee: Air Force's Wen Zhang recorded three individual first-place finishes in the 200 freestyle (1:37.09), the 100 freestyle (44.75), and 500 freestyle (4:42.78) at the Falcon's three-way meet against Colorado Mines and Nebraska-Omaha, Friday. His altitude adjusted time for 200 freestyle (1:35.49) is currently the seventh fastest time in the nation according to Collegeswimming.
Other diver nominee: Grand Canyon's Isaac Poole was neck to neck with Honer this past weekend winning the 1-meter with a 16.70-difficulty dive totaling a score of 329.85 and came second in the 3-meter and a total score of 323.85 with a 16.60 degree of difficulty dive.