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2013-14 Swimming & Diving Roster

Heather Lonkert

  • Position Diving
  • Height 5-2
  • Class Freshman
  • Highschool Moon Area
  • Hometown Moon Township, Pa.

Biography

At Rider:
Behavioral Neuroscience major...as a sophmore, won bronze at the 2015 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships on the three-meter board with a score of 229.15...best one-meter score of the season came against Marist (264.15)...
as a Rider rookie, qualified for the NCAA Zone ‘A’ meet on the one-meter board…two-time Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Diver of the Week honoree…best score on the one meter was her NCAA Zone qualifying score of 289.42 in a dual meet vs. Lehigh, winning the event…best three-meter score as a rookie was 294.22 in a dual meet vs. Georgetown.

At Moon Area High School:
Four-year letterwinner for diving…two-time team captain…holds the Moon Area High School one-meter dive record (278.40), breaking a record that stood for 22 years…three-time Midwestern Athletic Conference (MAC) champion…Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic League (WPIAL), runner-up as a senior after third place as a junior and ninth place as a sophomore…also lettered in Gymnastics, earning first place on the balance bean at the Pennsylvania Classic Championship Meet and third place on the floor exercise at the WPIAL Championship…four-year scholar athlete and four-year academic honor roll…member of the National Honors Society…personal: daughter of Mickey and Melissa Lonkert…hobbies include Gymnastics, playing with her dogs and tadpole racing…also plays the piano.