WORCESTER — When asked what her favorite moment has been since joining the Assumption College women’s swimming and diving team, Victoria Weber needs little time to search for an answer.
“Absolutely winning (The Northeast 10 conference championship) last year,” Weber, a junior from Augusta, said by phone late last week. “That was very memorable, just so exciting. The atmosphere around the team was incredible. We were all just so happy and so excited.”
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This week the former Cony High School standout will be hoping to experience some of the same feelings as the Greyhounds prepare for this season’s NE-10 championships. The four-day championship will begin Thursday at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
“We’re all really optimistic going into the championship but we don’t have any expectations necessarily other than to put our best effort in,” Weber said. “We’ll all try to do the best we can.”
If the Greyhounds are going to repeat as conference champs, Weber is going to have to be a big part of that. She is currently seeded second in the conference in the 200 individual medley, 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly, and also owns the program records in the 100 and 200 IM.
“She’s had a great year so far,” Assumption coach Stuart Cromarty said. “…Throughout the season she’s been doing those three events and occasionally some others.
“She’s in the 400 freestyle relay, she’ll be anchoring that again this year. She’ll be in the 400 medley relay and the 200 medley relay and the 200 free relay, so she’ll have a heavy workload. She has seven events for NE-10s.”
All four of the Greyhounds’ relay teams are seeded first heading into this weekend.
The pool is not the only place where Weber has succeeded since making the transition to college, as she has also stood out in the classroom.
“She’s not only a great swimmer, she’s a great scholar,” Cromarty said. “…We’re always looking for student-athletes that can lead that are all academically very strong and that is something very typical in all the sports at Assumption.
“We’re really looking for high-quality students first, athletes second and the combination of life in the balances is kind of what we’re looking for where the students can excel academically and also do well in the pool.”
While Weber has hit her stride in her third year in Worcester, she admits the jump from high school to college took a little time to adjust to.
“At first I was just kind of like, ‘wow, this is a lot more work.’ We do morning practices, we do weights and other training outside of swimming,” Weber said. “It was a lot to adjust to my freshman year, but it certainly paid off and was well worth it.”
If Weber has her way, it will pay off with a second straight NE-10 championship this weekend.
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