The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
02.07.2024 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Noah Duperre was tabbed the Big 12 Diver of the Week, Camden Taylor named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week.
IRVING, Texas – No. 9 Texas Men's Swimming & Diving's Noah Duperre and Camden Taylor earned Big 12 Conference weekly awards for their performances last week against TCU, the league office announced on Wednesday. Duperre was selected the Big 12 Diver of the Week and Taylor was chosen as the Newcomer of the Week.
Duperre, from New Albany, Ohio, swept the springboard events against TCU at the Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Friday. The senior kicked off the competition scoring a season-high 397.43 points on 1-meter to win by almost 30 points. He followed that with tight victory over runner-up Nick Harris on 3-meter, outscoring his teammate 449.63 to 446.33. Duperre earned his second diver of the week honor of the season and sixth of his career.
Taylor, a Rockford, Ill. native, won four individual events and was part of two relay winners during two days of competition. On Friday in long course racing against TCU, Taylor captured victories in the 50 free (22.97) and 200 free (2:03.40), establishing a career-best in the 50. He also helped Texas to a win in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:39.77, splitting 22.30 in the final leg. At Saturday's Sterkel Classic, he won the 50 free with a career-best 19.86, then collected the win in the 500-yard free, setting another career-best with a swim of 4:24.66 to win by almost six seconds. In the 200 free relay, Texas posted a time of 1:17.40 with Taylor swimming the final leg in 19.12. Taylor earned his first career conference award.
Texas wraps up the regular-season slate against SMU on Friday with a dual meet in Dallas. Competition is set to begin at 5 p.m. CT.
Texas' 2023-24 Big 12 Conference Weekly Honors
Oct. 11
Will Modglin (Swimmer)
Nick Harris (Diver)
Nate Germonprez (Newcomer)
Oct. 25
Luke Hobson (Swimmer)
Noah Duperre (Diver)
Will Modglin (Newcomer)
Nov. 1
Nate Germonprez (Swimmer)
Nick Harris (Diver)
Will Modglin (Newcomer)
Nov. 8
Will Modglin (Swimmer)
Nick Harris (Diver)
Brayden Taivassalo (Newcomer)
Nov. 22
Will Scholtz (Newcomer)
Jan. 31
Jake Foster (Swimmer)
Nick Harris (Diver)
Nate Germonprez (Newcomer)
Feb. 7
Noah Duperre (Diver)
Camden Taylor (Newcomer)
