Women's Swimming
    Ishimatsu Earns Pac-12 Honor, Still Strong At Zones
    Senior named conference women's diver of the month for February.
    Senior Victoria Ishimatsu
    Senior Victoria Ishimatsu

    March 9, 2012

    Results

    USC senior diver Victoria Ishimatsu, on the same day she was named Pac-12 Women's Diver of the Month for February, continued her strong spring at the 2012 NCAA Zone E Diving Championships, taking second on 3-meter at the U.S. Air Force Academy's Cadet Natatorium in Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday (March 9).

    Ishimatsu, a three-time All-American coming off a pair of springboard titles at the 2012 Pac-12 Championships, won the 1-meter Zone E title Thursday. She finished second on 3-meter Friday with 665.25, just 3.55 points behind Arizona's Samantha Pickens. Ishimatsu was within 0.15 heading into the last round, but Pickens registered a 55.50 on her final effort to the Trojan senior's 52.20. Pickens was second to Ishimatsu on 1-meter Thursday.

    Trojan freshman Jordan Gear was 22nd in the men's 1-meter (262.50).

    Ishimatsu earned her latest Pac-12 monthly honor thanks to her two conference titles two weeks ago. At the meet, she made history with her win on the 3-meter, becoming the first women's diver to win the same event four years in a row. She finished her conference career with seven titles and was voted Diver of the Meet for the third straight year.

    Women's Zone E platform prelims begin at 11 a.m. Saturday with finals at 12:30 p.m. Men's platform prelims are at 3:30 p.m. with finals at 5 p.m.