CHICAGO, Ill. – Another strong performance this past Saturday for the Illinois Tech women's swimming and diving team has notched Katherine Lydon Player of the Week honors from Collegeswimming.com for the Liberal Arts Conference. This is Lydon's second straight weekly award after winning Liberal Arts Conference Swimmer of the Week last week.

The first-year swimmer put together an impressive meet, as she won both the 500 Yard Freestyle (5:22.81) and 1000 Yard Freestyle (11:00.11, a personal best). Lydon won the 1000 Yard Freestyle by nearly a full minute. She was also a part of the 400 Yard Freestyle Relay team that placed first with a time of 3:52.53.

The Scarlet Hawks are back in action on Saturday afternoon, hosting Illinois Wesleyan University and Carthage College at 1:00 p.m. at Keating Sports Center's Ekco Pool. During the event, the Swimming and Diving team will be collecting donations for the Ted Mullin Fund for sarcoma cancer research. More information about the fund is available at www.tedmullinfund.org. Live video will be available of the meet.