LITTLE ROCK – Little Rock's Swimming and Diving Samantha Gray earned her first Missouri Valley Conference Diver of the Week Award of the 2017-2018 season, the conference announced Tuesday afternoon.
Gray competed this last weekend in the Little Rock Invitational where she placed first in the three-meter dive and second in the one-meter dive. In the three-meter diver, she earned her best score of the year with a 248.35, a 30+ point jump from last week's 215 score in the dual versus North Texas. She matched the 248.35 in the one-meter as well which earned her a second-place and saw a seven-point improvement from the week before.