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Ximena Lechuga Gonzalez Season 2019-20

PositionDIVING
ClassSophomore
HometownTijuana, Mexico

bio entering 2022-23

Honors & Awards

  • Holds SDSU Top-10 marks in:
    1-meter: 332.10 (No. 1)
    3-meter: 383.03 (No. 1)
    Platform: 305.10 (No. 1)

  • 2019, 2020 Mountain West Diver of the Year
  • 2019, 2022 Mountain West Diver of the Meet
  • 2022 All-Mountain West (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard, platform)
  • 2021 All-Mountain West (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard, platform)
  • 2020 All-Mountain West (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard, platform)
  • 2019 All-Mountain West (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard, platform)
  • 2022 Mountain West Champion (3-meter springboard)
  • 2020 Mountain West Champion (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard)
  • 2019 Mountain West Champion (1-meter springboard)
  • 11-time Mountain West Diver of the Week
  • 2020 CSCAA All-American (1-meter, 3-meter)
  • 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Academic All-Mountain West
  • 2019 CSCAA Scholar All-America (honorable mention)
  • SDSU Scholar-Athlete (Spring 2020, Fall 2020)
  • 2021 NCAA Qualifier (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard)
  • 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 NCAA Zone E Qualifier (1-meter springboard, 3-meter springboard, platform)

Link: Season & Career Bests

2020-21:
Qualified to compete at the 2021 NCAA Championships, the second consecutive year she made the championship meet … Finished 32nd in the 1-meter at the national championship meet, the second-best score from a non-autonomous five diver … Placed 19th in the 3-meter springboard at the same event, the best finish by a Mountain West diver since the 2018 championships … Earned a 39th-place mark in the platform dive at the championship meet …At the 2021 NCAA Zone E Championship Meet, finished third on the 1-meter,  sixth on the 3-meter, and 12th on the platform … Won the 1-meter diving title at the 2021 MW Championship, defending her 2020 title … Also collected a second-place finish on the platform and a fifth-place finish on the 3-meter springboard at the league championship meet.  

2019-20: Named a CSCAA All-American for her 1 and 3-meter diving efforts at the MW Championships …Set SDSU program records in all three springboard events throughout the 2020 season … Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 1 and 3-meter, but was unable to compete as the event was canceled due to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) … Became just the eighth diver in conference history to win more than one end-of-year MW honor when she was named 2020 MW Diver of the Year …  With her performances at the NCAA Zone E Championships, March 8-11, became the only MW Diver to qualify for NCAA Championships on both 1 and 3-meter in 2020 (as well as the only conference diver to qualify on the 1-meter) ...  Earned podium finishes in all three events at the 2020 Mountain West Championships, Feb. 19-22, including a gold-medal finish on the 1-meter springboard … Her third-place finish on the platform set the SDSU record on the event … Did not record less than a third-place final ranking in all her 1-meter, 3-meter, and platform dive performances throughout the 2019-20 season. 

2018-19: 2019 Mountain West Diver of the Year… Became the first freshman in conference history to ever win MW Diver of the Year… Second Aztec to ever win MW Diver of the Year, becoming the first since Kristen Meier who won it in 2010-11… Won Mountain West Championships Diver of the Meet honors… Only diver at the Mountain West Championships to record a top-three score on all three boards… Recorded the second-best 1-meter score in program history at the MW Championships at 325.55… 325.55 also marks 10th best in Mountain West history… Also posted the third-best 3-meter score in Aztec history at the MW Championships with a score of 338.70… Recorded the second-best platform score in school history at 269.65… Only diver in Aztec history to have a top-three score on all three boards… Two-time Mountain West Diver of the Week (Jan. 8 & Nov. 20)… Qualified for NCAA Zone Championships on all three boards... All-MW honoree on all three boards.

CLUB
Swam for Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico for 11 years and helped her team win a national championship.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Blanca Gonzalez and Ruben Lechuga.