BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana swimming and diving duo of junior Anne Fowler and sophomore Carson Tyler swept the Big Ten weekly diving awards as announced by the league office on Wednesday (Feb. 1).
The honors come after the Hoosiers earned a pair of wins in a dual meet at No. 17/6 Louisville on Saturday (Jan. 27), with IU divers winning all four of the diving events. Tyler is the Big Ten Men’s Diver of the Week for a second straight cycle and earns his fifth career weekly award. Fowler captured her third-career diver of the week award and second in three cycles. Between swimming and diving, the Hoosiers have totaled 14 Big Ten weekly awards over five different cycles.
Fowler swept the women’s diving events as the Hoosier women defeated the No. 6 Cardinals. She tallied 328.88 points on the 1-meter springboard, with five of six dives scoring better than 50 points. On the 3-meter board, Fowler tallied a 349.88 score and put an exclamation mark on her performance with a 67.50 mark on her final dive.
Tyler was one of two IU men’s divers to set a pool record on Saturday, earning a 431.40 score on the 3-meter springboard and winning by 31 points. All six of his dives tallied at least 60 points with two scoring better than 80. Tyler finished second to redshirt senior Andrew Capobianco’s pool record on the 1-meter board, scoring 358.35 point
