Swimming & Diving
A four-time All-American, Angie Soucek is the most decorated diver in Carleton history. She qualified for the NCAA Championships for the first time in 2000 and placed eighth in the 3-meter diving competition that year. She returned to Nationals in 2001 and again finished eighth on the 3-meter board and added an All-America honorable mention result by earning ninth place on the 1-meter board. As a senior, she earned a third consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships, and this time she posted fourth-place results during both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions. Those are the best finishes for any Carleton diver—men’s or women’s—in school history. Soucek is arguably the best women’s diver in MIAC Championships history, having won seven of eight possible individual titles, and MIAC archives indicate she is the only women’s diver to claim more than five conference crowns. As a rookie, she placed second on the 1-meter board (by only 2.5 points) before setting new MIAC overall and MIAC Championships records of 475.35 points while winning the 3-meter competition. She swept both MIAC titles for the first time in 2000, and repeated the feat in 2001 as she established new MIAC overall and MIAC Championships records on both boards. She scored 454.01 on the lower board that year, and her total of 524.65 off the 3-meter still stands as the MIAC standard two decades later. Soucek once again stood atop the podium after both events at the 2002 MIAC Championships. She played a key part in the first two MIAC team titles in program history. She accounted for 40 points as Carleton edged St. Olaf by only 17 points to win the 2000 conference crown. The following season, she again accounted for 40 points as Carleton edged Gustavus Adolphus by 38.5 points. Soucek still owns three program records—the 6- and 11-dive scores on the 3-meter board and the 11-dive score on 1-meter board. She earned both the prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and Fulbright Scholarship in addition to winning the Pat Lamb Award, which honors a Carleton senior exhibiting excellence in academics and athletics.