2017-18 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster
Biography
2017-18 (Sr.): Cemented her spot in history as arguably the greatest champion to ever come through the Mountain West, winning a conference record eight gold medals throughout her career … Earned a silver medal in the 3-meter springboard and bronze in the 1-meter springboard at the NCAA Championships, her third and fourth medals of her career at the NCAA Championships … Received All-Conference honors after sweeping all three events at the conference meet for the second consecutive season, which resulted in being named MW Diver of the Year for the second time in her career as well … Set a conference and school record 424.53 in the 3-meter springboard at the MW Championship … Placed first in every single event she competed in leading up to the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships … Earned a pair of Mountain West Diver of the Week accolades … Letterwinner.
2016-17 (Jr.): Named MW Diver of the Year after sweeping all three diving competitions at the conference meet, where she set two MW records at the competition … Received MW All-Conference honors, following her performances at the conference championships … Tallied three MW Diver of the Week accolades … Earned two All-America accolades in both the diving events she competed in at the NCAA Championships … Broke the MW Championships record with a score of 359.35 in the 1-meter springboard … Set the MW all-time record in the 3-meter springboard, scoring a 421.45 … Finished first in the platform dive (298.00) to become just the third diver in MW history to sweep all three diving competitions at the championships … Qualified to compete in the NCAA Zone E Regionals … Placed sixth in the 1-meter springboard with a score of 315.00 and seventh with a score of 341.75 in the 3-meter springboard at the NCAA Championships … Won every single diving event she competed in throughout the regular season and the MW Championships … Accumulated 96 points for Nevada at the conference meet … Recorded the Pack’s top three scores in the both the 1 and 3-meter springboard … A Silver and Blue Scholar-Athlete … Letterwinner.
2015-16 (So.): Named NCAA Diver of the Year by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) … Swept the springboard national titles at the 2016 NCAA Championships in Atlanta, becoming just the third student-athlete in Wolf Pack history to win multiple Division I national titles in a single season … Won the 1-meter springboard with a finals score of 344.95 and the 3-meter springboard with a finals score of 404.70 … Tallied Nevada’s first national title in 14 years … Tallied 40 of Nevada’s 56 points at the NCAA Championships as Nevada placed 20th overall, which was the highest finish among non-power five teams … Earned All-Mountain West honors in the pool and 2016 spring Mountain West All-Academic honors in the classroom … Qualified to the NCAA Zone E Regionals in all three dives … Won a regional title on the 1-meter springboard with a cumulative score of 643.25 while also placing runner-up on the 1-meter board (643.25) and 13th on platform (459.15) … Won two Mountain West event titles … Placed first in the 1-meter dive with a finals score of 334.25 and on the 3-meter dive with a finals score of 396.35 at the MW Championships … Also advanced to the A finals and placed fourth on the platform with a finals score of 248.60 at the conference meet … Accounted for 55 points at the Mountain West Championships … Posted four event titles in the regular season … Helped lead the Wolf Pack to an undefeated 10-0 record, the first Mountain West championship in program history and a top 25 CSCAA national ranking … Letterwinner.
BEFORE NEVADA
Graduated high school from Sport School of Sichuan Province … Attended Chengdu Sports University after high school … Participated in the 2013 University Games.
PERSONAL
Full name is Shuangxue Zheng … Native of Chengdu, China … Daughter of Quanjun and Xiaochun Zheng … Academic major at Nevada is undecided … Also received recruiting interest from Notre Dame, Illinois and North Carolina.
Historical Player Information
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2015-16Sophomore
Diver
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