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MWC Swimmers and Divers of the Week No. 7
Dec. 5, 2007 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - TCU senior Jonathon Berrettini and junior R.J. Hesselberg earned Mountain West Conference Men's Swimmer and Diver of the Week honors, respectively, while UNLV's Kim Bonney and Wyoming's Megan Evans were named MWC Women's Co-Swimmers of the Week. Berrettini, from Lewisville, Texas, set two new TCU records, tied an all-time Conference mark and qualified for the 2008 NCAA Men's National Championship last weekend at the 2007 Short Course National Championships and USA Swimming Long Course Invitational in Atlanta, Ga. Berrettini broke the Horned Frog school record in the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.10, earning a provisional qualifying time in the process. In the 100 backstroke, his time of 48.28 tied the all-time MWC mark set by BYU's Arunas Savickas in 2001 and broke his own school record time. Berrettini also led off the 400 freestyle relay team, recording a split time of 44.70 to break a 10-year-old TCU school record as the squad finished fourth. In the USA Swimming Long Course Invitational, he recorded a time of 56.69 in the 100 back to automatically qualify for the national championship. Hesselberg recorded two top-five performances at last weekend's Texas Invitational in Austin, Texas. Competing against a talented field which included the top-three ranked programs in the nation, Hesselberg set a personal-best score of 292.50 to place third in the platform dive. He also recorded a score of 311.40 to finish fifth in the three-meter event and placed 12th in the one-meter diving event with a score of 255.50. Bonney had a pair of top-eight finishes in the breaststroke events at the Texas Invite, posting the fastest times of the season in both events. In the 200 breaststroke, she placed sixth with a time of 2:16.16, which ranks as the fifth-best time in MWC history, and finished eighth in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:03.86. She also swam the breaststroke legs in the 200 and 400 medley relays, as the Rebels finished eighth in both with times of 1:43.47 and 3:48.07, respectively, the top times in the Conference this season. Bonney also helped the 400 free relay squad to a seventh-place finish. Evans broke two Wyoming school records and swam the third-best time in school history, while provisionally qualifying for the 2008 NCAA Championships at the Husky Invite in Seattle Wash., last week. She broke school records in the 200 and 400 individual medley with respective times of 2:04.57 and 4:22.91 and swam the third-fastest time in program history in the 200 breaststroke (2:18.35). Her time in the 400 IM is an NCAA provisional qualifying mark and the fifth-fastest clocking in MWC history. Evans also swam on the 800 freestyle team that placed seventh with a time of 7:37.22.
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