Planken Earns Big Ten Honor

Oct. 26, 2004

IOWA CITY, IA – University of Iowa senior diver Lisette Planken has been named Big Ten Women’s Diver of the Week. Planken, from Amersfoort, Netherlands, won the one- and three-meter events with school-record scores in Iowa’s co-ed season opener with Wisconsin last weekend. She won the one-meter with a score of 325.55 and the three-meter with a score of 328.35. Both were also collegiate-best marks. It is the fourth time in her career that she has earned Big Ten Diver of the Week honors.

Planken and the Hawkeyes are idle this weekend. They will resume competition Saturday, November 6 when they travel to Minneapolis, MN, to face Minnesota at 1 p.m.