Singleton Named GNAC Women's Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week for Fourth Time

WINTHROP, Mass. ? Simmons University?s Sarah Singleton (Mission Hills, Calif.) was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women?s Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week for the week of October 22-28, it was announced today by the league. WINTHROP, Mass. ? Simmons University?s Sarah Singleton (Mission Hills, Calif.) was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women?s Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week for the week of October 29 to November 4, it was announced today by the league.  WINTHROP, Mass. ? Simmons University?s Sarah Singleton (Mission Hills, Calif.) was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women?s Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week for the week of January 14-20, it was announced today by the league. Singleton has now received the award three times this season. WINTHROP, Mass. ?Simmons University?s Sarah Singleton (Mission Hills, Calif.) was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week for the week of January 21-27, it was announced today by the league. 
Posted: Jan 28, 2019

WINTHROP, Mass. –Simmons University's Sarah Singleton (Mission Hills, Calif.) was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week for the week of January 21-27, it was announced today by the league. 

Singleton has now received the award a conference-high four times this season after being named last week and for the weeks of October 22-28 and October 29 to November 4. 

The first year won both of her individual events and helped the Sharks win a relay race as well to help Simmons to a 197-103 victory over visiting Mount Holyoke College on January 26. The West Coast native turned in a time of 1:02.93 to touch the wall first in the 100-yard butterfly and added a victory in the 100-yard backstroke with a mark of 1:06.00 to win the event by more than three seconds. Singleton competed in the first event of the dual meet by swimming the butterfly leg of the 400-yard medley relay to help the Sharks post a combined time of 4:13.23 to win the race by nearly eight seconds. 

For the season, the Grace Christian Academy graduate has registered 15 top-five finishes, while winning 10 events. A Neuroscience and Behavior major, Singleton shattered the school record for the 400-yard individual medley by more than 12 seconds with a time of 4:40.31 to place fourth at the MIT Winter Invitational in early December. She also helped Simmons set a new standard for the 800-yard freestyle relay in the same meet when she swam the third leg of the race to combine on a school-record time of 7:46.36. The former member of the Rattler Swim Club in San Fernando, CA has won six different events this season for Simmons with wins in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke, the 100 and 200-yard butterfly and the 100 and 400-yard individual medley races and has won three of her last five individual events. The student-athlete has been exemplary in the classroom as well, earning a spot on the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association Fall All-Academic team after posting a perfect 4.0 grade point average following her first semester of college work.

The Sharks are currently 11-2 on the season in dual meet action and have registered double-digit victories in six straight seasons. They return to action on Friday, February 1 when they begin their defense of their crown as the host of the three-day GNAC Women's Swimming & Diving Championship at 6:30 p.m.

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