Please consider downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer
to experience this site as intended.
Skip to content

In Review

SWIMMING & DIVINGDiver Wins First UAA Title Danielle Neu ’17 is first Yellowjacket to claim a conference diving crown in the women’s competition. By Matthew Taylor
sports-divingTOP FORM: Danielle Neu ’17 won the three-meter diving title at the UAA championships. (Photo: Athletics and Recreation)

Danielle Neu ’17 became Rochester’s first female diver to capture a University Athletic Association title, winning the three-meter board competition and qualifying for the NCAA regional diving championships.

She was joined at the championships by Max Adler ’18, who qualified with a fourth-place finish in the men’s one- meter competition.

The divers’ results were part of a strong showing by both the women’s and the men’s swimming and diving teams at the UAA conference championships, held in the Rochester suburb of Webster. The women finished in sixth place with a total of 673.5 points and the men finished seventh with a total of 689 points. Members of both teams broke school records and met NCAA provisional qualifying standards.

They include:

Alex Veech ’17 finished in second place in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:03.29, breaking her own school record of 1:04.16 and qualifying for the NCAAs.

Vicky Luan ’16 broke the 100-yard freestyle school record and tied for 10th with a time of 52.37 seconds. Jennifer Enos ’17 set a school record in the 1,650-yard freestyle, placing ninth with a time of 17:38.64. That broke her own school record set in 2013 by more than two seconds.

Gunnar Zemering ’18 broke his own school record in the 50-yard freestyle, with a finishing time of 20.62 seconds and also earning an NCAA time. He finished eighth in the 100-yard free. Elliot Schwinn ’19 had two provisional qualifying times, breaking his own school record in the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16:02.26 and besting a 27-year-old school record in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:04.84.

Neu is Rochester’s first UAA champion since the 200-yard freestyle relay in 2009 and the Yellowjackets’ first individual champion since Karen Gromer ’07, ’10M (MPH) captured first place in the 200-yard butterfly in 2004. The first male diver to win a UAA title was Scott Richardson ’88, who won the one-meter board in 1988, the first year of the championship.

Taylor is a communications assistant in the Department of Athletics and Recreation.