California Baptist University
WAC Championships - Men's & Women's Diving
Honer, Tolman Bring Home Gold In Final Night
2/27/2021 9:04:00 PM | Swimming and Diving
DIVE
The history making started with the prelims when Honer and Kiree Lowe became the first CBU duo to both enter the finals of a WAC Championship diving event as the top-seeds. Honer entered the final round as the man to beat but he would pull away early and never look back. Not only did his final score of 358.50 break his own school record set earlier this year, it is also the new mark to beat in the WAC Championships, breaking the former record set by Lucas James in 2016 of 344.80.
The win secured a three-event sweep for Honer, making him the first male diver to ever do so in WAC Championship history. He joins Stephanie De Lima from Hawaii as the only divers to accomplish the feat, she did so back in 2010.
🏆𝟑𝐱 𝐂𝐇🏆𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍🏆
Evan Honer becomes the first male diver to ever win all three diving events in the same WAC Championship! All while setting new CBU and WAC Championship platform scoring records with his final score of 358.50!#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/GjfknUz04C— CBU Swimming & Diving (@CBUswim) February 28, 2021
Kiree Lowe would walk away with her best finish of the competition, claiming the silver medal in platform with a score of 212.80, the second-best mark in program history.
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Kiree Lowe puts up the second best platform score in CBU women's program history to claim silver in the final dive event of the competition!#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/pZRvXhzKH1— CBU Swimming & Diving (@CBUswim) February 28, 2021
Tyler Stevens and Lillian Choi joined their teammates in the finals with Stevens finishing fifth with a score of 271.50 and Choi claiming seventh with 166.10 points.
MEN'S SWIM
Three Lancer men made their way onto the podium on the last night of competition starting with Robert Moseley. The junior from Bakersfield took second-place in the 200 backstroke finals in a time of one minute and 46.36 seconds, adding to his 2021 medal collection which also includes a silver from the 200 IM on Thursday night.
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Robert Moseley secures his second silver medal of the competition finishing the 200-yard backstroke in 1:46.36!#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/v7PBei060W— CBU Swimming & Diving (@CBUswim) February 28, 2021
The banner moment for the men's swim team during the championship weekend came during the 200-yard breaststroke race. Seniors Scott Tolman and Brandon Schuster finished first and second in the event in 1:56.22 and 1:58.47, respectively. It was Tolman's second career win in this event in the WAC Championships, earning the top podium spot once before in 2019. It was also the only race of the entire weekend won by a swimmer not from the eventual team champions UNLV, or the championship runners-up Air Force.
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Scott Tolman and Brandon Schuster claim first and second in the 200 breaststroke‼️ It's Tolman's second career gold medal in the race with his first coming in 2019!#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/BeacxNWewa— CBU Swimming & Diving (@CBUswim) February 28, 2021
UNLV claimed the men's team title with a new points record of 907, beating out Air Force who scored a distant 643 points. Wyoming beat out Grand Canyon for third place as the two teams recorded scores of 593.5 and 552.5 respectively. The Lancer men finish the Championship in fifth place with a team score of 528, ahead of Seattle U at 163.
Northern Arizona officially walked away from the women's competition with their eighth–straight team title, accumulating 740 points along the way. New Mexico State (619), Northern Colorado (509.5), and Grand Canyon (504.5) complete the top-four before the Lancers squad comes in fifth-place with 436 points. Idaho (422), Dixie State (250) and Seattle U (165) round out the finishers.
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