INDIANAPOLIS - The third edition of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Athletes of the Week for the men and women’s programs were announced by the league on Tuesday.
Findlay and Malone earned respective honors this week for their performances in dual competition.
Men’s Athlete of the Week
Janko Radmanovic
Findlay
Senior
Belgrade, Serbia
The senior NCAA All-American swam in three events against UIndy and impressed to earn his first conference weekly honor.
He won the 50-yard freestyle while posting the conference’s fastest time this season with a time of 21.17. Radmanovic also took first place in the 100-yard freestyle and again posted the top time in the conference this season with a 46.92.
Radmanovic also was part of a 400-yard freestyle relay unit that finished runner-up in the meet.
He contributed 18 points individually as well as four points in team events.
Abby Reynolds
Malone
Freshman
Mansfield, OH (Mansfield Christian School)
Reynolds, just a first-year collegiate student-athlete, posted an impressive week for Malone, which competed against Mount Union and West Virginia Wesleyan.
Her collegiate debut resulted in winning two individual events, the 100 and 200-yard freestyles as well as being part of a winning relay team. Her second meet on Saturday, produced more of the same results as she won two more events.
Her times from these events were among Malone’s school records, as she now owns the second-best time in school history in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles as well as the third-best time in the 200-yard freestyle.