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2016-17 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Alyssa Black

Alyssa Black

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Pine Bush
  • Hometown:
    Middletown, N.Y.

Summary

Biography

2016-17 (Senior): Earned Honorable Mention All-America status for the second consecutive year in the 3-meter dive at the 2017 NCAA Championships (March 17) ... finished second in the 1-meter dive (580.75) and fourth in 3-meter dive (607.75) at the Zone A Diving Championships (March 6-7) ... made appearance in consolation final with her 12th-place result in the 1-meter dive and placed 17th in the 3-meter dive at 2017 Big Ten Swimming and Diving Championships (Feb. 16-17) … recorded a PR of 352.42 in the 3-meter dive, good for second in program history, during senior meet against Richmond (Jan. 28) … placed first in the 1-meter dive with a score of 303.65 against Cincinnati and Virginia Tech (Jan. 20-21) ... registered Zone qualifying marks in both 1-meter and 3-meter events against Penn State and Yale (Jan. 13-14) ... collected first-place and NCAA Zone qualifying marks of 309.00 in the 1-meter dive and 326.55 in the 3-meter dive at the Bruno Invitational (Dec. 2-4) ... finished first in the 1-meter dive (314.00) and second in the 3-meter dive (330.60) during quad meet with Georgetown, Seton Hall, and Villanova (Nov. 4-5) …finished second in the 3-meter dive with a mark of 330.60 in home meet against Georgetown, Seton Hall, and Villanova (Nov. 4) … placed second in the 1-meter dive (295.25) and 3-meter dive (322.40) against Illinois and Northwestern (Oct. 29) … placed second in the 1-meter dive with a mark of 289.45 and second in the 3-meter dive with a score of 308.50 against Miami (Fla.), Notre Dame and Purdue (Oct. 28).

2015-16 (Junior): Winter Academic All-Big Ten selection ... secured Honorable Mention All-America status in 3-meter diving at the 2016 NCAA Championships, the first AA finish for the program since 2014 ... finished 11th in the 1-meter dive (315.55) and 13th in the 3-meter dive (294.45) at the 2016 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships ...   ... produced a NCAA Zone mark in the 1-meter dive with a score of 286.35 against Penn State and Yale (Jan. 15-16) ... competed in both 1-meter and 3-meter diving events during tri-meet with Kansas and Miami (Fla.) (Jan. 9) ... scored a Zone qualifying mark with a 326.20 score in the 3-meter dive against BU and UConn (Dec. 5) ... produced Zone qualifying scores in the 1-meter (314.85) and 3-meter (314.25) dives during Frank Elm Invite (Nov. 20-22) ... recorded second-place totals in the 1-meter (294.55) and 3-meter (310.30) dives during quad meet with Georgetown, Seton Hall and Villanova (Oct. 6-7) ... finished first in the 1-meter (295.34) and 3-meter (319.35) events against Wagner (Oct. 23) ... registered NCAA Zone qualifying scores in the 1-meter (294.60) and 3-meter (333.30) dives during Sonny Werblin Invitational (Oct. 16-17).

2014-15 (Sophomore): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors … competed in the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 18-21) … registered career-high mark in 3-meter dive (282.65) during tri meet against Georgetown and Providence (Feb. 7) … produced career-high score in 1-meter dive (278.17) against New Hampshire (Jan. 24) …captured second in the 3-meter dive (263.70) against Penn State (Jan. 17) … finished third in both 1-meter (264.45) and 3-meter (235.13) dives during quad meet against Georgetown, Seton Hall and Villanova (Nov. 7-8) … placed first in both 1-meter (229.64) and 3-meter (235.13) dives against Wagner (Oct. 31).

2013-14 (Freshman): Took 10th in both the 1-meter (226.05) and platform events (181.00) at the American Athletic Conference Championships ... finished third in the 1-meter (237.35) at RU's tri-meet against Bucknell and Columbia.

High School: Level 10 gymnast ... first-year member of the Viking Diving Club Team under head coach Jim Frisbie ... named to the Pine Bush High School High Honor Roll and member of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Daughter of Cara and David Black ... majoring in mathematics and economics.

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