Crystal Szymanski
Crystal Szymanski

Player Profile
Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Hales Corners, Wis.

High School:
Whitnall

Height:
5-5

Event:
Diving

2006-07: Named Horizon League Diver of the Meet at the Horizon League Championships after claiming a league title on the one-meter board and second place on the three-meter board ... missed more than half the season to injury before coming back ... competed at the NCAA Zone Diving Regional for the third-straight season ... named to the Winter Academic All-Horizon League Team ... Horizon League Spring 2007 Academic Honor Roll member.

2005-06: Earned All-Horizon League Second Team honors on the three-meter board for second-straight season at the Horizon League Championships ... also finished fourth in the finals after winning the prelims in the one-meter at the championships ... won both boards at Western Illinois ... finished second seven times on the year, including on both boards against North Dakota ... set a career-high on the one-meter board with an NCAA Zone qualifying score at that meet ... named Horizon league Diver of the Week in early February ... competed on both boards at the NCAA Zone Qualifying Meet in Columbus, Ohio ... also set a UWM record for platform diving at that meet ... named a member of the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll.

2004-05: Earned All-League Second Team honors with a second-place showing in three-meter diving at the Horizon League Championships ... also finished third at the meet in one-meter diving ... placed first on the three-meter board and second in one-meter diving at UW-Green Bay ... set personal-bests with first-place efforts in one- and three-meter diving at UIC ... finished no lower than fifth in any event on the season ... NCAA Zone Diving qualifier.

2003-04: Placed fourth in three-meter diving and sixth from the one-meter board at the Horizon League Championships ... swept both the one- and three-meter events against Western Illinois ... picked up a victory from the one-meter board at quad meet with UIC, Northern Iowa and Evansville ... at the Madison Invitational, her first collegiate meet, took third in three-meter and sixth in one-meter diving.

Personal: Parents are Mike and Sharon Szymanski ... sister, Kayla, is in her second season with the Panthers, also as a diver ... is majoring in Spanish ... was a diver for Schroeder Diving in Brown Deer ... was a member of Whitnall High School's academic honor roll all four years.