University of Nevada Athletics

2017-18 (Jr.): Completed her junior season with four top three finishes and a trio of top 10 placings at the Mountain West Championship … Came out victorious in the B final of all three diving events at the conference meet … Posted a season-best score of 288.70 on the 1-meter springboard at the NAU Diving Invitational and season-best mark of 301.50 on the 3-meter springboard in the Pack’s dual meet victory of intrastate rival UNLV … Placed as high as second twice on the season, once coming on the 1-meter springboard and once on the 3-meter springboard … Finished third on the 1-meter springboard with a score of 273.23 in Nevada’s dual against reigning MW Champion Boise State … Letterwinner.

2016-17 (So.): Competed in all of Nevada’s regular season events as well as the MW Championships … Earned MW All-Conference honors after her performances in the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events … Received her first MW Diver of the Week award after recording NCAA-qualifying scores of 314.78 in the 3-meter springboard and 293.48 in the 1-meter springboard against UNLV … Earned another MW Diver of the Week following her performance against Fresno State where she won both springboard events for the second and third victories of her career … Recorded season-high scores at the conference meet in both springboard events, scoring a 319.25 in the 1-meter and 335.75 in the 3-meter, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively … Posted the Pack’s best score of an event at a meet three times on the year … Finished inside the top three in nine of the 15 events she competed in … A Silver and Blue Scholar-Athlete … Letterwinner.

2015-16 (Fr.): Joined the Wolf Pack over winter break before competing in three regular season events, the Mountain West Championships and the NCAA Zone E Regional … Earned All-Mountain West honors and was named to the 2016 spring MW All-Academic team … Advanced to the A finals and placed fourth overall on the 1-meter springboard at the MW Championship with a prelim score of 298.80 and a finals score of 294.20 … Advanced to the B finals and placed 10th overall on the platform at the conference meet with a prelim score of 226.65 and a finals score of 237.60 … Also placed 21st on the 3-meter (247.95) board at the conference meet … Advanced to the finals and placed 13th overall in the 3-meter dive (569.80) at the NCAA Zone E Regionals … Also placed 39th in the 1-meter (241.70) dive at regionals … Tallied a season-best score of 308.63 and placed third on the 1-meter springboard in Nevada’s dual win over San Jose State … 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.

PRIOR TO NEVADA
Graduated high school from the College of Olympic Reserve … Competed in diving and in gymnastics.

PERSONAL
Full name is Tamara Shmitova … Daughter of Mikhail and Ekaterina Shmitova … Native of St. Petersburg, Russia … Has one brother … Intends to major in nutrition at Nevada … Chose to attend Nevada because of head diving coach Jian Li You and because of the academics.