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Tennessee swimmers, divers earn four SEC weekly awards

Tennessee swimmers and divers earn four SEC weekly awards.

Four members of the Tennessee swimming and diving program earned SEC weekly honors Tuesday.

Jordan Crooks (SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Week), Mona McSharry (SEC Women’s Swimmer of the Week), Bryden Hattie (SEC Men’s Diver of the Week) and Camille Spink (SEC Women’s Freshman of the Week) earned weekly honors for Tennessee.

Crooks won the won the 50 freestyle, recording a time of 18.80 seconds. He also won the 100 fly (45.18) and was a member of the Vols’ 400 free relay team, that earned a victory against LSU.

McSharry won the 50 freestyle (22.12) and the 200 breaststroke (2:06.63).

Hattie won both the 3-meter and 1-meter diving competitions. Spink earned three victories for Tennessee against the Tigers.

UT’s Mona McSharry named SEC Freshman of the Week

UT swimmer Mona McSharry named SEC Freshman of the week after Lady Vols beat Kentucky.

University of Tennessee swimmer Mona McSharry was named Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week after helping the Lady Vols knock off No. 10 Kentucky.

McSharry, a native of Dublin, Ireland, helped Tennessee notch a 178.4-121.5 victory over the Wildcats at the Allan Jones Aquatics Center on Jan. 14.

Kentucky was previously undefeated.

McSharry won both the 100 and 200 breaststroke and helped UT’s 400 freestyle relay team capture that event. She also swam the anchor leg on Tennessee’s 200 medley relay team, which came in second.

In the 100 breaststrole, McSharry posted a time of 51.91 seconds and shattered the event record previously held by former UT great and Olympian Molly Harris.

McSharry posted a time of 2:12.27 in the 200 breaststroke.

She swam the second leg of the 400 freestyle relay, recording a split of 51.08 seconds.

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