Chelsea Davis

Height:
5-3
Class:
First-Year
High School:
Worthington Kilbourne
Hometown:
Columbus, Ohio

2005-06: Quickly established herself as the top diver to ever come to Northwestern ... Won the school's first Big Ten diving title and first women's swimming Big Ten Championship since 2002 with a pool- and school-record 388.10 on the 3-meter board ... Became Northwestern's first-ever female diving All-American and the first NU All-America diver, male or female, since 1944 with a 14th-place finish on the 1-meter board at the NCAA Championships ... Narrowly missed the points on the 3-meter board at the NCAA Championships, finishing 17th ... Finished ninth on the 1-meter board in her first major collegiate meet event ... Three-time Big Ten Diver of the Week ... Swept reigning Big Ten Diver of the Year Christina Loukas of Indiana on both boards in a dual meet against Indiana on Dec. 2 ... Set pool records in both events with a 339.00 on the 1-meter and a 413.55 on the 3-meter board in a dual meet at Wisconsin on Nov. 10 ... Broke the Northwestern school record on the 1-meter board -- previously broken by teammate Leanne Dumais on Oct. 23 -- with a 292.75 at the Purdue Invitational.

High School: Trained at the United States Elite Diving Academy for the previous three years ... Won six U.S. Junior National Championships ... Member of the 2005 World Championships team ... Finished in second place at the 2004 Senior National Championships ... Competed in high school during the 2002-03 season, winning every meet, including the Ohio State Championship ... Honored as an All-American ... Named Most Valuable Diver for her high school performance ... Set school records in both the six and 11 foot dives ... Valedictorian of her high school class ... Named to the honor roll all four years of high school ... Member of the National Honor Society and Latin National Honor Society.

Personal: Born Chelseana C. Davis on 9/19/87 ... Daughter of Barbara and Mark Davis ... Father Mark was the first gymnast in history to complete a triple dismount off the high bar ... Chose Northwestern over Stanford, Texas and Notre Dame ... Anticipated major at Northwestern is biology.