Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored. The Mountaineers had two athletes honored this week.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored. The Mountaineers had two athletes honored this week.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ef4e84c32e2bc4f10b0e5ed1fda25d04\"},\"headline\":\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia’s Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\"},\"wordCount\":422,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Austin Smith\",\"Big 12 Conference Coverage\",\"Emily Haimes\",\"West Virginia Swimming\"],\"articleSection\":[\"College\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\",\"name\":\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00\",\"description\":\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored. The Mountaineers had two athletes honored this week.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":576,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy:\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia’s Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ef4e84c32e2bc4f10b0e5ed1fda25d04\",\"name\":\"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3055ac6ff59b58e41ba8bffac00fb751?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3055ac6ff59b58e41ba8bffac00fb751?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor\"},\"description\":\"Dan D'Addona is the managing editor and lead college swim writer for Swimming World. He has covered swimming at all levels since 2003, including the NCAA championships, USA nationals, Duel in the Pool and Olympic trials. He is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a graduate of Central Michigan University. He currently lives in Holland, Michigan, where he also is the Sports Editor at The Holland Sentinel.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/danield\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith","description":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored. The Mountaineers had two athletes honored this week.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored","og_description":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored. The Mountaineers had two athletes honored this week.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":576,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@swimmingworld","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/"},"author":{"name":"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ef4e84c32e2bc4f10b0e5ed1fda25d04"},"headline":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia’s Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored","datePublished":"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/"},"wordCount":422,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png","keywords":["Austin Smith","Big 12 Conference Coverage","Emily Haimes","West Virginia Swimming"],"articleSection":["College"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/","name":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png","datePublished":"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-22T22:22:31+00:00","description":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia's Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored. The Mountaineers had two athletes honored this week.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png","width":1024,"height":576,"caption":"Photo Courtesy:"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia’s Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/ef4e84c32e2bc4f10b0e5ed1fda25d04","name":"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3055ac6ff59b58e41ba8bffac00fb751?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3055ac6ff59b58e41ba8bffac00fb751?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Dan D'Addona \u2014\u00a0Swimming World Managing Editor"},"description":"Dan D'Addona is the managing editor and lead college swim writer for Swimming World. He has covered swimming at all levels since 2003, including the NCAA championships, USA nationals, Duel in the Pool and Olympic trials. He is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a graduate of Central Michigan University. He currently lives in Holland, Michigan, where he also is the Sports Editor at The Holland Sentinel.","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/danield\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/big-12-honorees.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-1JcI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":412096,"date":"2020-01-22T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=412096"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:22:31","slug":"big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/big-12-conference-awards-west-virginias-emily-haimes-austin-smith-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 Conference Awards: West Virginia’s Emily Haimes, Austin Smith Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Virginia redshirt senior Austin Smith<\/strong> and freshman Emily Haimes<\/strong> of the West Virginia University men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams have earned Big 12 Conference swimming and diving bi-weekly awards, as announced by the conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Smith was named the Big 12 Conference Men\u2019s Diver of the Week, while Haimes collected the Big 12 Conference Women\u2019s Swimmer of the Week honor. The award is the first of Smith\u2019s career and the second career honor for Haimes. She was previously collected the accolade earlier this season on Oct. 16.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

BIG 12 CONFERENCE COVERAGE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEmily has done a great job so far this season, and she can only go up from here,\u201d WVU coach Vic Riggs<\/strong> said. \u201cI\u2019m happy for her to be recognized by the conference for her efforts.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very proud and happy for Austin,\u201d WVU diving coach Michael Grapner<\/strong> said. \u201cHe has been working so hard to get back to his prime, and this award is an indication that his dedication is paying off.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Smith earned his first collegiate victory on 1-meter springboard at TCU on Saturday, Jan.18, to win the bi-weekly award. The Fishers, Indiana, native tallied a score of 296.77 to collect the victory. He also finished third on 3-meter with a score of 305.32. The men also competed at SMU on Friday, Jan. 17, where Smith earned fourth place on 1-meter (276.90) and fifth place on 3-meter (305.32).<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Haimes collected three victories, including one solo win, in the Mountaineers\u2019 Big 12 Conference dual at TCU on Saturday. Her solo victory came in the 100-yard freestyle, where she touched the wall in 52.02 to take the top spot. The Enfield, London, native also helped the 200 and 400 free relay teams earn victories, swimming the leadoff position in each relay.<\/p>\n

WVU\u2019s men\u2019s team earned two victories last weekend, topping SMU by a score of 182-117, before earning the squad\u2019s first Big 12 win over TCU, 176-65. The women\u2019s team also topped the Horned Frogs, 165-88, on the way to its first dual-meet and Big 12 Conference victory of the season.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The Mountaineer men are off this week, but the women\u2019s team returns to action on Saturday, Jan. 25, for a Big 12 Conference dual meet against Iowa State. The meet is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET, at the Aquatic Center at Mylan Park in Morgantown.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with West Virginia Athletics<\/i>. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact<\/i> Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"