Miller named MW Swimmer of the Year
3/23/2017 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Air Force senior Genevieve Miller was named the Mountain West Conference Swimmer of the Year, as announced today by the conference office.
Miller became the first swimmer in Mountain West history to win two different events all four years, the 500 and 1650 free. She holds the Academy, Mountain West and Mountain West Championships records in both events.
The senior from Winston-Salem, N.C., earned honorable mention All-America honors for the second straight year in both the 500 and 1650, placing 13th in the 1650 and 16th in the 500 in the 2017 NCAA Championships in Indianapolis.
At the Mountain West Championships, Feb. 15-18 in College Station, Texas, Miller was named the MW Swimmer of the Meet and earned the MW Senior Recognition award. At the conference meet, she won the 1650 with a time of 15:58.06, the first sub-16-minute time in league history. She won the event by more than 19 seconds. She also won the 500 free with a school and conference record time of 4:38.98. Miller also earned all-conference honors in the 200 free, breaking her own school record with a time of 1:47.19.
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