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Rebecca Murray 2018 Swim Headshot

Rebecca Murray

  • Award
    Student-Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/25/2019
  • Sport
    Women's Swimming & Diving
  • Bio
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Rebecca Murray, a senior member of the women's swim and dive team, was named the Wolf Pack Athlete of the Week following her performance at the 2019 Mountain West Championships. The Pack finished second as a team with 1,261.50 points.

The Falkirk, Scotland native finished her final Mountain West Championship as the tenth ranked individual of the meet with a total of 80 points. Murray highlighted the meet after defending her gold medal in the 100 freestyle with an NCAA 'B' standard time of 49.11. Not only was that time a personal record but it was also a school record beating the previous holders time of 49.14. 

Murray also swam anchor for the 800 freestyle relay that claimed the gold with a time of 7:09.76. Along with the two gold medals, she was a member of the silver medal relay squads in the 400 freestyle relay and the 200 freestyle relay. Rounding out the medals was a bronze in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:37.94.

In her final two individual events she took fifth overall in the 200 freestyle and seventh in the 50 freestyle. Murray sits in second in the MW for her 100 free time. 



Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
11/19/2018 Lucas Weber Football
11/13/2018 Hiley Dobbs Women's Cross Country
11/5/2018 Anastaysha Gorbacheva Women's Tennis
10/29/2018 Joey Vrzich Men's Golf
10/22/2018 Julien Evrard Men's Tennis
10/15/2018 Andressa Cholodovskis Women's Swimming & Diving
10/8/2018 Joey Vrzich Men's Golf
10/1/2018 Malik Reed Football
9/24/2018 Lindsey Sickler Women's Cross Country
9/17/2018 Joey Vrzich Men's Golf
9/10/2018 Kayla Afoa Women's Volleyball
9/4/2018 McLane Mannix Football
8/27/2018 Jamila Minor Women's Volleyball
8/20/2018 Kendal Stovall Women's Soccer
5/29/2018 Lindsey Sickler Women's Track & Field
5/21/2018 Sadaria McAlister Softball
5/7/2018 Joshua Zamora Baseball
4/30/2018 Leah Carter Women's Track & Field
4/23/2018 Grant Booth Men's Golf
4/16/2018 Julien Evrard Men's Tennis
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