IRVING, Texas — Mackenzie Miller Lung, Lucy Warnick and Nathaniel Eliason garnered three of the six Big 12 swimming weekly awards for performances at Arizona Dec. 20-21, the conference announced Friday.
| Big 12 Swim & Dive Weekly Awards | Jan. 3 | ||
| Award | Athlete | School |
| Men's Swimmer of the Week | Ralph Daleiden | Arizona |
| Men's Diver of the Week | Greg DuBois | Arizona |
| Men's Newcomer of the Week | Nathaniel Eliason | BYU |
| Women's Swimmer of the Week | Mackenzie Miller Lung | BYU |
| Women's Diver of the Week | Holly Waxman | Utah |
| Co-Women's Newcomer of the Week | Lucy Warnick | BYU |
| Co-Women's Newcomer of the Week | Anja Peck | Iowa State |
In the Cougars’ dual meet versus the Wildcats, Miller Lung won her seventh race of the season with a 2:10.17 finish in the 200 breast. Miller Lung’s win came with three seconds’ separation from runner-up Eleni Gewalt of Arizona. The dual meet in Tucson also saw Miller lung finish second in the 100 breast at 1:00.78 and help BYU’s 200 and 400 medley relay squads to top-5 finishes.
The junior from Clovis, California has now secured Big 12 Women’s Swimmer of the Week twice this season.
Lucy Warnick earned her first Big 12 citation with two top-3 finishes in Tucson. The freshman from Las Vegas, Nevada won the 400 individual medley with a time of 4:21.73 and took second in the 200 IM at 2:02.83. Warnick’s 400 IM win came over four seconds in front of the Wildcats’ Joy Felner. Warnick, a 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier, also anchored the Cougars’ 400 free relay squad to a fourth-place finish at 3:27.89.
Nathaniel Eliason’s first Big 12 honor follows a meet in which he starred in three relays and two individual events for BYU. Eliason finished second and third, respectively, in the 50 free and 100 fly. The freshman from Mechanicsville, Virginia swam anchor in the 200 and 400 medley relays, helping both to third-place finishes. In his fifth event of the meet, Eliason helped the 200 free relay team to a third-place finish as well.
BYU swimming is back in action at the Richards Building Pool on Jan. 10 at 4 p.m. MST in a dual meet versus UC Santa Barbara.