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Addison Walkowiak

Addison Walkowiak

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Ballston Spa
  • Hometown:
    Ballston Spa, N.Y.

Summary

Biography

SCHOOL RECORD HOLDER

  • 1-meter Diving | 340.25 (2018, Big Ten Championships)
  • 3-meter Diving | 369.05 (2018, Big Ten Championships)


-2017 Member of Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)

2017-18 (Senior): Earned the program's first-ever All-America honor in 1-meter diving with an honorable mention 11th place national finish at the 2018 NCAA Championships (3/15) ... Named Academic All-Big Ten ... Qualified for fourth consecutive NCAA Championships, and third straight qualifying for all three events, placing 24th on 3-meter and 33rd on platform ... Won the NCAA Zone A 1-meter diving championship and added a runner-up on 3-meter and ninth place in platform at the zone meet at Rutgers (3/5-7) ... Became Rutgers' first-ever Big Ten All-Conference performer with a runner-up finish in 1-meter diving at the 2018 Big Ten Championships (2/15), while also adding another medal for a third place score on 3-meter (2/16) and a third podium finish for her seventh place score on platform (3/17) ... Posted another diving sweep on 1- and 3-meter in the dual meet victory over Nebraska (1/26-27) ... Claimed the 1-meter competition on a big stage at No. 11 Ohio State with No. 2 Michigan and No. 24 Virginia Tech (1/20), while placing runner-up on platform ... Swept the diving events on the 1- and 3-meter in a dual meet against Yale (1/12) ... Named Big Ten Diver of the Week (12/6) ... Completed a clean sweep at Princeton's Big Al Open (12/1-3), winning the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform diving events, while twice breaking the school record in 1-meter diving ... Won the 3-meter at Rutgers' Frank Elm Invitational (11/17-19), while finishing runner-up on the 1-meter and platform ... Named Big Ten Diver of the Week (11/8) ... Swept the diving events at Rutgers' penta-meet with Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall and Villanova (11/3-4) ... Opened the season with a win on the 1-meter board at the Illinois tri-meet with Northwestern (10/27).

2016-17 (Junior): CSCAA Scholar All-America and Winter Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Represented Rutgers at the NCAA Championships in 1-meter diving (3/16) ... Scored three podium finishes at the Big Ten Championships (2/16-18), placing sixth in both 1- and 3-meter diving and eighth on platform ... Placed first in the 3-meter dive against Cincinnati and Virginia Tech (Jan. 20) ... named Big Ten Diver of the Week (Jan. 18) ... had first-place and Zone qualifying dives in both 1-meter and 3-meter events against Penn State and Yale (Jan. 13-14) ... finished second in both the 1-meter (303.25) and 3-meter (326.55) dives at the Bruno Invitational (Dec. 2-4) ... picked up a victory in the 1-meter dive (303.20) and third-place finish in the platform dive (241.35) during the H2Okie Fall Invitational (Nov. 17-19) ... finished first in the 3-meter dive (337.4) and second in the 1-meter dive (312.80) during quad meet with Georgetown, Seton Hall and Villanova (Nov. 4-5) … collected first place honors in the 1-meter dive with a mark of 300.55 and placed third in the 3-meter dive with a score of 313.25 against Illinois and Northwestern (Oct. 29) … captured the 1-meter diving title with a score of 293.45 during road meet with Miami (Fla.), Notre Dame and Purdue (Oct. 28).

2015-16 (Sophomore): Winter Academic All-Big Ten selection ... two-time B1G Diver of the Week (Nov. 11, Jan. 13 ) ... competed in the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform dives at the 2016 NCAA Championships ... finished sixth in 3-meter diving (324.80) and eighth in platform diving (224.55) at the 2016 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championships ... picked up two first-place marks and NCAA Zone marks in the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events during dual meet with New Hampshire (Jan. 30) ... finished first in the 1-meter diver (294.95) and second in the 3-meter dive (308.70), both NCAA Zone marks, during tri-meet with Penn State and Yale (Jan. 15-16) ... collected NCAA Zone qualifying scores in the 1-meter (310.80) and 3-meter (296.20) diving events during tri-meet with Kansas and Miami (Fla.) (Jan. 9) ... contributed Zone qualifying scores in the 1-meter (293.20) and 3-meter (339.85) diving events against BU and UConn (Dec. 5) ... produced three NCAA Zone qualifying scores in the 1-meter (321.80), 3-meter (326.20) and platform (260.25) diving events during Frank Elm Invite (Nov. 20-22) ...1-meter dive during invite was school record ... broke school record in the 3-meter dive with a score of 348.55 while securing NCAA Zone qualifying marks in the 1-meter (303.25) and 3-meter diving events during quad meet with Georgetown, Seton Hall and Villanova (Nov. 6-7)  ... produced NCAA Zone qualifying scores in 1-meter (306.52) and 3-meter (337.51) diving during Sonny Werblin Invite (Oct. 16-17).

2014-2015 (Freshman): Registered a stellar rookie season on the banks … collected four Big Ten Weekly honors and four ECAC accolades … earned two first-place finishes in the 1-meter dive (281.55) and 3-meter dive (307.65) in RU’s Quad Meet (Nov. 7-8), earning her first collegiate weekly award as Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week on Nov. 11 … broke the school record for the first time in the 1-meter dive with a first-place score of 304.70 at the Frank Elm Invite (Nov. 21-23) … named Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week (Nov. 25) … led Scarlet Knight divers in the 1-meter (274.75) and the 3-meter (272.35) diving events  at Miami (Jan. 10) … recognized as Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Jan. 13) and ECAC Co-Diver of the Week for the Division I Metro/Upstate Region (Jan. 14) … paced RU with first place finishes in in the 1-meter (285.40) and 3-meter (321.50) against Penn State (Jan. 16-17) en route to her third Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week honor (Jan. 20) and second consecutive ECAC honor as Co-Rookie of the Week (Jan. 21) …  reset the school record in the 1-meter dive for the second time with a score of 306.90 at UNH (Jan.  24) … tabbed ECAC Diver of the Week on Jan. 28 … posted a career-best 329.30 on Senior Day (Feb. 7), earning ECAC Diver of the Week on Feb. 11.  

Personal: A public health major with minor studies in psychology... Plans on attending an accelerated nursing program... Member of Rutgers SAAC... Volunteers at Robert Wood Johnson emergency room... Five-time Dean's List honoree... A CSCAA Academic All-American... Member of Chi Alpha Sigma and the National Collegiate Athlete Honor Society... Proudest sports moment was making the finals at all three diving events at the Big Ten Championships in 2017... 

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