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2017-18 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Atlantic 10

Wendy Espina-Esquivel

  • Position Diving
  • Height 5-2
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Santiago, Chile
  • Highschool Liceo Augusto D'Halmar (Nevada)

Biography

207172017-18: Missed most of the season with injury… Won both diving events at UConn with scored of 261.89 (1M) and 268.35 (3M)… Took first in the one-meter (290.40) and three-meter (264.90) diving events at Marist… Named to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll and the ECAC Academic Honor Roll.

2016-17: Competed at the NCAA Zone "A" Diving Championship for the second straight year... Was 25th in the one-meter dive (230.05), while taking 30th in the three-meter dive (238.00)... Earned Second Team All-Atlantic 10 honors in the one-meter dive for the second straight year at the Atlantic 10 Championship, placing second with a score of 271.00... Also scored seventh in the three-meter dive with a mark of 258.55... Was second in the three-meter dive (267.75) and third in the one-meter dive (238.35) against Massachusetts... Won the one-meter dive event (279.45) versus Iona, while taking third in the three-meter (247.35)... Placed first on the one-meter (262.40) and three-meter (277.05) board during the Richmond/La Salle meet... Won both diving events against Manhattan (1M - 294.00; 3M - 307.13)... Was fourth in the one-meter dive (270.30) and fifth in the three-meter dive (272.30) at the Bucknell Invitational... Finished fifth in the three-meter dive (272.55) and eighth in the one-meter dive (245.60) at the Princeton Invitational... Won the one-meter dive with a school record score of 308.92 versus Boston University, while also taking the three-meter event with a score of 295.57... Took first in the one-meter dive with a then-school record score of 298.50 during the Fairfield/Monmouth meet, while winning the three-meter event as well (275.33)... Won both diving events against Marist (1M - 276.90; 3M - 300.30)... Named to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll.

186542015-16: Had a great first season with the Rams, setting school records in both diving events... Named Atlantic 10 Performer of the Week once... Competed at the NCAA Zone "A" Diving Championship... Made the finals of the three-meter dive, placing 17th with a score of 252.15 in the preliminaries and 495.75 in the finals... Was also 37th in the one-meter dive with a score of 210.65... Scored in both diving events at the Atlantic 10 Championships... Earned Second Team All-Atlantic 10 honors in the one-meter event, placing second with a score of 262.85... Also placed fifth in the three-meter event with a score of 267.60... Won both diving events against St. Francis (NY), setting the school record in the one-meter event with a score of 288.52, while winning the three-meter event with a score of 279.60... Finished third in the one-meter dive (238.87) at Massachusetts... Won the three-meter event (289.65) at the Iona-La Salle dual meet... Won both diving events against Manhattan, posting scores of 253.42 (1M) and 274.35 (3M)... Was third in the one-meter dive at the Bucknell Invitational with a score of 263.30... Won both diving events against LIU Post with scores of 282.00 (1M) and 306.75 (3M)… Captured both diving events at Boston University with scores of 263.10 (1M) and 241.20 (3M)... Finished first in the diving events against Army West Point (1M - 286.65; 3M - 259.20)… Won both diving events at the Fairfield-Monmouth dual meet with scores of 281.10 (3M) and 279.30 (1M)... Set the school record in the three-meter dive in her very first meet at Marist with a score of 307.20, while also winning the one-meter dive with a score of 280.20.

Before Fordham: Transfer from the University of Nevada-Reno... Competed for one year with the Wolfpack... Finished seventh at the 2015 Mountain West Conference Championship on the three-meter board with a score of 250.75... Qualified for the "A" final of the three-meter event with a score of 257.85... Placed 23rd in the one-meter dive with a score of 187.80... Took part in the 2015 Pan American Games, representing Chile in the three-meter springboard and synchronized three-meter springboard... Posted a preliminary score of 212.15 in the three-meter springboard to advance to the finals... Ended up 12th in the competition with a second score of 185.35... Was seventh with Paula Sotomayor in the synchronized three-meter springboard event with a score of 205.92.... Chilean National Champion in 2013-14, while being a Junior National Champion from 2010-13 on the one-meter and three-meter board... Chilean National Team member from 2009-15.

Major: Applied Accounting & Finance
 
FORDHAM CAREER BEST SCORES SCHOOL RECORDS
1M Dive: 308.92 1M Dive: 308.92 (2017)
3M Dive: 307.20 3M Dive: 307.20 (2015)

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Diving
    5'2"
  • 2016-17Junior

    Diving
    5'2"
  • 2017-18Senior

    Diving
    5'2"