| Tara Hyer |
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AS A JUNIOR:
Qualified for two events at the BIG EAST Championships ... one of team's top divers ... finished third in the three-meter to earn BIG EAST honors ... award puts her at three all-BIG EAST honors ... was the number one diver for the Irish in the platform (six dives) with a career best 163.95 ... was the second best on the team in the three meter with six dives with her career-best performance (271.20) vs. Louisville ... performed a career best in the one meter (11 dives) at the Michigan Invitational with a score of 226.80 ... awarded Diving Coaches Award at the end of the season ... earned a monogram.
AS A SOPHOMORE:
One of most experienced divers on the team and in the conference ... finished second on the team in the one-meter dive and third in the three-meter dive ... qualified for the BIG EAST meet in both the one-meter and three-meter dives ... finished eighth in the one-meter dive with 203.15 points ... was all-BIG EAST in the three-meter dive as she finished behind Kristin Caiazzo of Pittsburgh and teammate Lucy Hirt ... it was the second time she has been all-BIG EAST in her career ... won the exhibition platform diving event at the 2006 BIG EAST meet with a total of 156.10 points ... swam in the 200 butterfly at the Michigan Invitational ... she finished 14th and gained three points for the Irish in the competition against Illinois and Michigan ... earned a monogram.
AS A FRESHMAN:
One of the team's top three divers ... second on the team in one meter and third in three meter ... also a top performer in platform diving ... qualified for the BIG EAST meet in both one and three-meter diving ... finished third in the three-meter diving at the 2006 BIG EAST Championships ... 2006 NCAA diving qualifier in the one-meter and three-meter diving ... also earned all-conference honors in three-meter diving ... finished second in three-meter diving behind teammate Meghan Perry-Eaton with a score of 431.25 ... also placed sixth in one-meter diving at the conference meet with a point total of 221.30 ... won the exhibition platform diving event at the BIG EAST meet with a total of 146.25 points ... top one-meter effort of the year (six dives) came in her initial collegiate competition vs. Evansville ... earned a monogram.
HIGH SCHOOL & PERSONAL DATA:
Four-year first-team All-America diver and Florida state runner-up ... four-year letter winner in both diving and swimming at Academy of the Holy Names ... also earned two varsity letters in basketball as a point guard ... owns the highest dual-meet total for diving for her school and district ... four-time all-conference, all-city and all-state diver ... captained her team and was team MVP all four seasons ... ranked nationally for four years as a prep diver ... went undefeated as a junior and senior ... MVP of basketball team during her sophomore campaign ... member of the National Honor Society ... brother, Sean, was an accomplished diver at Notre Dame and was her high school diving coach ... he broke all the University records from 1991-94 and still holds the 11-dive three-meter mark (579.60) for both Notre Dame and the Rolfs Aquatic Center ... all five older brothers were collegiate divers: Sean, Raymond (Villanova), Bobby (Georgetown), Michael (Boston College), and Tim (Duke) ... Bobby also played lacrosse at Georgetown ... born Sept. 9, 1985, in Manhasset, N.Y. ... daughter of Kathleen and Raymond Hyer ... enrolled in the College of Arts & Letters as a design major
