2020-21 Swimming and Diving Roster
Roster
Amanda Ling
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Walled Lake Central
- Hometown:
- Wixom, Mich.
2020-21:Â
Was the recipient of the NCAA's Elite 90 Award as the student-athlete at the Championship with the highest GPA ... Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Academic All-Big Ten … Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor recipient ... Earned both MSU Diver of the Year and Morgan Piasecki Spartan of the Year awards from her team ... Finished 37th at NCAA's in the 1M diving competition, where she scored a 247.95 ... At the NCAA Zone C Diving championships, advanced to NCAA's with a seventh-place finish on the 1M board with a score of 546.20, but finished 12th on the 3M ... Finished eighth at Big Tens with a score of 302.40 in the 3M, and scored a 246.85 in the prelims on the 1m board … Took second on the 1M board (308.00) for an “A” cut at Michigan … Posted a personal-best score of 316.20 on the 1m board at Penn State, and on the 3m scored a 324.38 for a “B” cut.
2019-20:
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Academic All-Big Ten honoree...CSCAA First Team Scholar All-America selection... One of 23 Big Ten student-athletes honored with a 4.0 GPA... 2020 Academic Excellence Scholar-Athlete Award recipient …Named to the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics Highest Honor Roll… Named a CSCAA All-American in the 1-meter and 3-meter… NCAA Zone Qualifier in both 1-meter and 3-meter… Finished 22nd overall in the 3-meter at the Big Ten Championships (254.10)… Scored a personal-best 318.70 in the 1-meter with six dives versus Kenyon… Scored a personal-best 335.17 in the 3-meter with six dives versus Northwestern… Totaled ten victories and four sweeps over the course of the season…
2018-19:
Academic All-Big Ten honoree and B1G Distinguished Scholar… One of 22 Big Ten student-athletes honored with a 4.0 GPA… NCAA Zone Qualifier in both the 1-meter and 3-meter… Named Big Ten Co-Diver of the week (Oct. 3)… Recorded three first-place and four second-place finishes… Recorded her season-best score in the 1-meter with six dives at 288.05 against Illinois… Recorded her season-best score in the 3-meter with six dives at 313.87 against Kenyon…
2017-18:
Scored a personal-best 295.12 in the 1-meter versus Oakland… Scored a personal-best 270.10 in the 3-meter at the Northwestern TYR Invitational… Finished 12th on the 1-meter and 15th on the 3-meter at the USA Diving Senior Nationals... Finished 14th overall in the 1-meter at NCAA Diving Zones… Recorded two first-place finishes, five second-place finishes and four third-place finishes over the course of the season...
Prior to MSU:
Three-time varsity letter winner… Oakland County diving champion, KLAA North division diving champion, KLAA conference diving champion, all-state diver and All-American diver her sophomore through senior years… Dove for Larry Albright of Legacy Diving… Qualified for USA Diving Zone C on 1 and 3-meter in 2014, 2015 and 2016… Qualified for USA diving Junior Olympic qualifier in 2014… Finished third in 1-meter diving at USA Diving Regionals in 2015...
Personal:
Born on January 24, 1999… Daughter of Dan and Kathie… Has two sisters, Jessica and Jenna... Sister, Jessica, was a gymnast at MSU… Enjoys writing, kayaking and baking… Majoring in Secondary Education and English
