Underwood Earns Big Ten Honor

Nov. 9, 2004

PARK RIDGE, IL – University of Iowa diver Nancilea Underwood earned her first-ever Big Ten Women’s Diver of the Week award today. The junior from Spring, TX, won the one-meter (304.35) and was runner-up in the three-meter (320.10) to teammate Lisette Planken in Iowa dual with Minnesota last week. The Hawkeyes fell to the Gophers, 129-171, but Underwood and Planken swept the diving events for the second time this season.

Underwood and the Hawkeyes will host Truman State in a co-ed meet Friday at the Fieldhouse Pool in Iowa City. Meet time is scheduled for 5 p.m.