IRVING, Texas (October 11, 2017) -- With three first-place finishes over the first two events, senior diver Rebecca Quesnel (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) has been named the first Conference USA Diver of the Week of the season, the league announced Wednesday.
 
This is the 18^th C-USA Diver of the Week award for the FIU All-American, who is the defending C-USA Diver of the Year.
 
Quesnel won the 1-meter springboard and finished second to freshman teammate Rachel Foord in the 3-meter program when the Panthers defeated Miami (Florida) in the season-opening dual meet on September 27, by a 164.5-115.5 final score. Her score of 289.57 was an NCAA Zone standard.
 
In the two-day FIU Fall Classic, Quesnel finished first in both of her heats of the event, scoring another NCAA Zone standard of 289.90 in the 1-meter and producing a score of 264.35 to place first in the 3-meter program. The Panthers finished first, with a score of 521, 41 points ahead of Buffalo in the six-team event.
 
Quesnel and FIU will next compete at the Dual-A-Palooza in New Orleans, against Rice Tulane and Denver.
                                                                                                                                                                                    
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in eight different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including Lime Court at FIU Arena and Riccardo Silva Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute.  FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.