TicketSmarter WAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week Announced
DENVER – UNLV's Chris Mykkanen has been named the TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Men's Swimmer of the Week for Dec. 15 through 19.
Mykkanen, a junior from Newport Beach, Calif., won all three events he competed in this past weekend. He won the 500 freestyle (4:25.11), the 200 freestyle (1:37.50) and 1650 freestyle with a season best time of 15:27.69 which is also fifth fastest time in the WAC and within the top-100 in the nation this season based on SwimCloud.
Other swimmer nominee: California Baptist's Robert Moseley won the 50 butterfly (22.06) and 200 individual medley with a time of 1:49.35 which is the sixth fastest in the WAC this season.