CHICAGO – The College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) chosen three College of Chicago Maroons as Athletes of the Week on Tuesday.
Grace Hynes picked up UAA Ladies’s Basketball Athlete of the Week for the second time this season. The senior guard led the Maroons to 71-57 overcome No. 1-ranked and beforehand undefeated New York College on Friday night time. Hynes submitted a double-double of 21 factors and 10 rebounds, because the hosts outrebounded the Violets 56-29. She continued her sizzling streak on Sunday with 25 factors, six rebounds and 4 assists in opposition to Brandeis College, as UChicago prevailed 80-56. The Maroons moved up within the nationwide rankings to No. 10 within the D3hoops.com ballot. To date this season, Hynes is averaging 15.5 factors and 5.5 rebounds per sport.
For the third time this season, Veronica Fong obtained the UAA weekly award in ladies’s diving. The Maroon first-year was undefeated in two twin meets over the weekend. On Friday in opposition to Lewis College, Fong gained the one-meter dive with 332.70 factors and three-meter dive with 297.23 factors. Her one-meter rating smashed the earlier Myers-McLoraine Pool document of 314.18 whereas additionally setting a brand new faculty document. She adopted up on Saturday by sweeping the one-meter (276.45) and three-meter (290.85) boards as soon as once more, defeating NCAA Division I opponents from College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Garrett Clasen was the UAA’s choose in males’s swimming for the second time this yr. The Maroon junior continued his sturdy season with seven occasion victories over two days whereas going through Division I foe UW-Milwaukee and Division II opponent Lewis. His large spotlight got here within the 100-yard IM, the place he set a brand new faculty and pool document of fifty.47. Clasen additionally compiled wins within the 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard IM, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard medley relay.
