New Mexico State University Women's Swimming

Pratt enters his 12th season at the helm of the Aggie swimming and diving program.  Pratt first came to NM State in 2005, which was also the first season for the program in the Western Athletic Conference.   In his career at NM State, Pratt has coached the program only two NCAA qualifiers in 2009 and 2012. In his tenure, his teams have set or broken 58 school records, and have claimed 17 individual WAC Championship titles. Pratt has garnered his share of personal accolades as well, earning WAC Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010.   Pratts teams have been just as successful in the classroom as they are in the pool. Since he became head coach, the program has not posted a team GPA below 3.2 and is frequently in the top-10 in the nation in GPA.   The 2015-16 season was a banner year for the program, as the Aggies finished second at WAC Championships. Dorottya Lennert was named the programs first WAC Swimmer of the Year, with Lauren Wood named WAC Freshman of the Year. Pratt has now coached four WAC Freshmen of the Year (2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016).   In addition to all of the conference awards, Pratt coached the first Olympian in program history. Junior Jannah Sonnenschein represented her home country of Mozambique in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sonnenschein swam the womens 100m fly with a time of 1:04.21. This time placed her in seventh place in her heat and 39th overall, beating out six other swimmers in the 100m fly.   One of the highlights of the 2015-16 season was defeating Pac-12 for Oregon State in a meet in Tucson, Ariz. In the meet, the Aggies had three top-3 finishes and nine top-5 finishes. They defeated the Beavers by a score of 188.0-105.0.   The 2013-14 season was one of Pratts best at NM State as the squad finished in third place at the WAC Championships with 528 points.  It was the Aggies best finish at the conference meet since also finishing in third place in 2010, and it was their second-highest point total ever, only eclipsed by the 572 points in 2009.   Pratt has coached at least one WAC champion for six-consecutive seasons.  In 2014, Terrin Seaver was crowned the champion in the 100 back while Jessica Legge defended her 100 breast title.  NM State also broke four school records at the 2014 WAC Championships as Seaver broke three swimming records (100 back, 100 fly, 200 back) while diver Jaymee Porter broke the platform event record.    Porter, along with fellow divers Audrey Ruiz and Lauren Reifel, all had scores at the conference meet that qualified them for a zone meet, marking the first time in program history that three divers participated in a zone regional for NM State as all three divers competed at the NCAA Zone E Diving Regional in Colorado Springs, Colo.   NM State had a WAC swimmer of the Week (Seaver) and a WAC Diver of the Week (Ruiz) during the 2013-14 season and at the conclusion of the season a total of 14 Aggies were named to the Academic All-WAC team, showing Pratts emphasis on performance both in and out of the pool. It was the seventh-straight season that NM State had at least 10 members of Pratts team honored as Academic All-WAC.   The Aggies recorded a fifth-place finish at the 2013 WAC Championships with 331.5 points. Legge swept the breaststroke events at the WAC meet winning both the 100m and 200m breaststroke. She is the first Aggie to win multiple events at the conference meet since 2009. Additionally, Legge broke the school record in the 200m individual medley. The Aggies have broken every single school record in the last five years. The oldest records left on the books were set in 2009.   The Crimson and White divers also improved in 2012-13 with Ruiz representing the Aggies at the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships in March 2013. She was the first diver to compete at zones since 2009. In dual meet action, NM States biggest win of the season was a 148-142 victory over Oregon State, Jan. 4, 2013, a Pac-12 opponent, in Tucson, Ariz.   In 2011-12, NM State broke 10 school records en route to posting 12 NCAA provisional times, which is the most in program record. The Aggies finished in fourth place at the 2012 WAC Championships after scoring 429 points. Aliena Schmidtke won the 200 freestyle and earned WAC Freshman of the Year honors. She was the second consecutive Aggie to garner the award. Schmidtke also competed at the 2012 NCAA Championships, and she was the second Aggie in school history to swim at the national meet.   In 2010-11, the Aggies broke 10 school records and posted five NCAA B cut times at the WAC Championship meet. The Aggies won two individual titles with Alannah Lawrence taking top honors in the 100m breaststroke and Tricia Kiss capturing the 400 individual medley title at the 2011 WAC meet. Kiss was named the 2011 WAC Freshman of the Year, a first in program history. As a team, NM State finished fifth with 405 points.   The Aggies finished No. 16 in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America /CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Poll following a 5-5 dual meet record. The season highlights included the fourth consecutive win over New Mexico, first win over Colorado State and a second-place showing at the UNLV Invitational.   The Aggies finished second at the WAC Championships in 2010, and Pratt was named WAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season. The Aggies continued to raise the bar for the program with their best finish at the WAC meet. The Aggies captured three individual WAC titles, Lawrence (100 breast), Maria Spies (200 breast) and Liz Thomson (1,650 free).   In 2009-10, the Aggies posted a 7-8 dual record with an extremely challenging schedule that incorporated three Pac-10 teams including No. 2 Arizona. NM State extended its win streak over in-state rival New Mexico to three consecutive years with a victory in Albuquerque.   In 2008-09, the Aggies had a remarkable season earning a third-place finish, and the highest point total (572) at the WAC Championships in school history. NM State set 17 school records in 2008-09. Spies represented the team at the NCAA Championships after sweeping the breaststroke events at the WAC meet. Spies was the first-ever Aggie to compete at nationals.   At the conference meet, the Aggies had six individual first team all-league honorees. As WAC Champion in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke, Spies led the way for NM State that included Stephanie Peacock (100 back), Lawrence (100 breast), Ana Smith (1,650 free), Thomson (400 IM and 1,650 free) and Mariesa Cloud (platform), who was the first Aggie diver to earn the accolade.   In dual meet action, the Aggies went 10-7 in the 2008-09 season. NM State opened the season hosting the inaugural WAC Shoot-Out. The Aggies defeated New Mexico for the second consecutive season and won for the first time in school history at Northern Arizona. In summer 2009, the Aggies had three swimmers compete at the World Championship Trials (Tessa Bain-Canada, Lawrence-U.S. and Spies-Germany).   In 2007-08, the Aggies posted a fifth-place finish at the WAC Championships with 460.5 points and the relay teams set three school records. NM State had six individual first team all-conference selections with Conrad (50 and 100 free), Lawrence (100 breast), Stephanie Peacock (100 back), Runestrand (200 breast), Bonnie Taylor (200 back) and Thomson (1,650 free and 400 IM). The Aggies also had seven individual second team all-conference honorees. For the first time in school history, the Aggies scored in the diving events at the WAC meet. Kirstin Pickett finished 10th on both the 1- and 3-meter springboards, while Amanda Schulte was 11th on the 3-meter and 16th on the 1-meter.   In dual meets, the Aggies were extremely successful and posted a 9-4 record, which included the first-ever win over Northern Arizona and first victory over New Mexico in more than 25 years. At Northern Arizona, the Aggies broke the pool record in the 400-free relay by three seconds (3:57.97) with the team of Meghann Percy, Peacock, Carolyn Bohm and Conrad. In addition, Peacock and Bain competed at the Canadian Olympic Trials in April 2008.   In 2008, Karen Kaufmann was named the WAC Stan Bates Award Winner. She is the first Aggie in school history to earn the distinguished honor. The award is named in honor of former WAC Commissioner Stan Bates and recognizes the leagues top male and female scholar-athletes for both athletic and academic accomplishments. Bohm was a third team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2007-08. She was just the third Aggie in school history to accomplish the prominent feat.   In 2006-07, the Aggies fought adversity but they rebounded to record a fifth-place showing at the WAC Championships. At the league meet, Thomson led the team as a freshman with a silver medal in the 400 IM and school record in the 1,650 free, which was also a fourth-place finish.   The Aggies had success in the classroom as well as they ranked second on the NCAA Division I Academic All-American list for the fall 2006 semester according to the CSCAA.   Pratt led NM State to wins over Northern Colorado and Florida International/North Texas. At the quad meet in Houston, Texas, against the host Cougars, FIU and UNT, Thomson set her first school record in the 1,000 free.   In his first year with in Las Cruces, Pratt led the Aggie resurgence as the team set three school records at the WAC Championships and captured a pair of individual medals. Under Pratts leadership, NM State won two dual meets, including a conference showdown at San Diego.   Under Pratts tutelage several Aggies had breakout years, including Kelly Freeburn, who won a pair of silver medals at the WAC Championships.   The Aggies also saw great performances from several other swimmers in Pratts inaugural year. Megan Woodworth had an impressive year and set the school record in the 400 IM at the WAC Championships. Woodworth was also part of an 800-free relay team that set another school record at the WAC Championships.   Pratt came to NM State after two seasons as an assistant coach at UNLV where he specialized in coaching the breaststroke. In 2004-05, Pratt helped coach both the mens and womens squads to Mountain West Conference titles, the first for each in school history.   Prior to his stint as an assistant with the Rebels, Pratt was an assistant coach at Rutgers, where he worked with the middle distance and distance swimmers for the Scarlet Knights. He worked with swimmers who lowered 22 school records during the 2002-03 season.   Pratt began his coaching career at his alma mater, Alabama, as a volunteer assistant working with the middle distance and sprint groups. One of the swimmers he worked with, Anne Poleska went on to win the silver medal in the 200 breast at the 2005 NCAA Championships and the 2005 World Championships while also taking the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Pratt also spent two seasons as head coach of the Crimson Tide Aquatics club team.   As a competitor, Pratt was a two-year letterwinner and captain of the Alabama swim team until graduating in 2001. While swimming with the Crimson Tide, Pratt was the recipient of the Marshall Shoemaker Award for efforts in practice. He also participated in the 1996 Canadian Olympic Trials.   Pratt, a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and his wife, Melissa, have two children, Jacob and Olivia. Rick Pratt Head Coach Head coach Rick Pratt enters his 12th season at the helm of the Aggie swimming and diving program.  Pratt first came to NM State in 2005, which was also the first season for the program in the Western Athletic Conference.   In his career at NM State, Pratt has coached the program only two NCAA qualifiers in 2009 and 2012. In his tenure, his teams have set or broken 58 school records, and have claimed 17 individual WAC Championship titles. Pratt has garnered his share of personal accolades as well, earning WAC Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2010.   Pratts teams have been just as successful in the classroom as they are in the pool. Since he became head coach, the program has not posted a team GPA below 3.2 and is frequently in the top-10 in the nation in GPA.   The 2015-16 season was a banner year for the program, as the Aggies finished second at WAC Championships. Dorottya Lennert was named the programs first WAC Swimmer of the Year, with Lauren Wood named WAC Freshman of the Year. Pratt has now coached four WAC Freshmen of the Year (2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016).   In addition to all of the conference awards, Pratt coached the first Olympian in program history. Junior Jannah Sonnenschein represented her home country of Mozambique in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sonnenschein swam the womens 100m fly with a time of 1:04.21. This time placed her in seventh place in her heat and 39th overall, beating out six other swimmers in the 100m fly.   One of the highlights of the 2015-16 season was defeating Pac-12 for Oregon State in a meet in Tucson, Ariz. In the meet, the Aggies had three top-3 finishes and nine top-5 finishes. They defeated the Beavers by a score of 188.0-105.0.   The 2013-14 season was one of Pratts best at NM State as the squad finished in third place at the WAC Championships with 528 points.  It was the Aggies best finish at the conference meet since also finishing in third place in 2010, and it was their second-highest point total ever, only eclipsed by the 572 points in 2009.   Pratt has coached at least one WAC champion for six-consecutive seasons.  In 2014, Terrin Seaver was crowned the champion in the 100 back while Jessica Legge defended her 100 breast title.  NM State also broke four school records at the 2014 WAC Championships as Seaver broke three swimming records (100 back, 100 fly, 200 back) while diver Jaymee Porter broke the platform event record.    Porter, along with fellow divers Audrey Ruiz and Lauren Reifel, all had scores at the conference meet that qualified them for a zone meet, marking the first time in program history that three divers participated in a zone regional for NM State as all three divers competed at the NCAA Zone E Diving Regional in Colorado Springs, Colo.   NM State had a WAC swimmer of the Week (Seaver) and a WAC Diver of the Week (Ruiz) during the 2013-14 season and at the conclusion of the season a total of 14 Aggies were named to the Academic All-WAC team, showing Pratts emphasis on performance both in and out of the pool. It was the seventh-straight season that NM State had at least 10 members of Pratts team honored as Academic All-WAC.   The Aggies recorded a fifth-place finish at the 2013 WAC Championships with 331.5 points. Legge swept the breaststroke events at the WAC meet winning both the 100m and 200m breaststroke. She is the first Aggie to win multiple events at the conference meet since 2009. Additionally, Legge broke the school record in the 200m individual medley. The Aggies have broken every single school record in the last five years. The oldest records left on the books were set in 2009.   The Crimson and White divers also improved in 2012-13 with Ruiz representing the Aggies at the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships in March 2013. She was the first diver to compete at zones since 2009. In dual meet action, NM States biggest win of the season was a 148-142 victory over Oregon State, Jan. 4, 2013, a Pac-12 opponent, in Tucson, Ariz.   In 2011-12, NM State broke 10 school records en route to posting 12 NCAA provisional times, which is the most in program record. The Aggies finished in fourth place at the 2012 WAC Championships after scoring 429 points. Aliena Schmidtke won the 200 freestyle and earned WAC Freshman of the Year honors. She was the second consecutive Aggie to garner the award. Schmidtke also competed at the 2012 NCAA Championships, and she was the second Aggie in school history to swim at the national meet.   In 2010-11, the Aggies broke 10 school records and posted five NCAA B cut times at the WAC Championship meet. The Aggies won two individual titles with Alannah Lawrence taking top honors in the 100m breaststroke and Tricia Kiss capturing the 400 individual medley title at the 2011 WAC meet. Kiss was named the 2011 WAC Freshman of the Year, a first in program history. As a team, NM State finished fifth with 405 points.   The Aggies finished No. 16 in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America /CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Poll following a 5-5 dual meet record. The season highlights included the fourth consecutive win over New Mexico, first win over Colorado State and a second-place showing at the UNLV Invitational.   The Aggies finished second at the WAC Championships in 2010, and Pratt was named WAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season. The Aggies continued to raise the bar for the program with their best finish at the WAC meet. The Aggies captured three individual WAC titles, Lawrence (100 breast), Maria Spies (200 breast) and Liz Thomson (1,650 free).   In 2009-10, the Aggies posted a 7-8 dual record with an extremely challenging schedule that incorporated three Pac-10 teams including No. 2 Arizona. NM State extended its win streak over in-state rival New Mexico to three consecutive years with a victory in Albuquerque.   In 2008-09, the Aggies had a remarkable season earning a third-place finish, and the highest point total (572) at the WAC Championships in school history. NM State set 17 school records in 2008-09. Spies represented the team at the NCAA Championships after sweeping the breaststroke events at the WAC meet. Spies was the first-ever Aggie to compete at nationals.   At the conference meet, the Aggies had six individual first team all-league honorees. As WAC Champion in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke, Spies led the way for NM State that included Stephanie Peacock (100 back), Lawrence (100 breast), Ana Smith (1,650 free), Thomson (400 IM and 1,650 free) and Mariesa Cloud (platform), who was the first Aggie diver to earn the accolade.   In dual meet action, the Aggies went 10-7 in the 2008-09 season. NM State opened the season hosting the inaugural WAC Shoot-Out. The Aggies defeated New Mexico for the second consecutive season and won for the first time in school history at Northern Arizona. In summer 2009, the Aggies had three swimmers compete at the World Championship Trials (Tessa Bain-Canada, Lawrence-U.S. and Spies-Germany).   In 2007-08, the Aggies posted a fifth-place finish at the WAC Championships with 460.5 points and the relay teams set three school records. NM State had six individual first team all-conference selections with Conrad (50 and 100 free), Lawrence (100 breast), Stephanie Peacock (100 back), Runestrand (200 breast), Bonnie Taylor (200 back) and Thomson (1,650 free and 400 IM). The Aggies also had seven individual second team all-conference honorees. For the first time in school history, the Aggies scored in the diving events at the WAC meet. Kirstin Pickett finished 10th on both the 1- and 3-meter springboards, while Amanda Schulte was 11th on the 3-meter and 16th on the 1-meter.   In dual meets, the Aggies were extremely successful and posted a 9-4 record, which included the first-ever win over Northern Arizona and first victory over New Mexico in more than 25 years. At Northern Arizona, the Aggies broke the pool record in the 400-free relay by three seconds (3:57.97) with the team of Meghann Percy, Peacock, Carolyn Bohm and Conrad. In addition, Peacock and Bain competed at the Canadian Olympic Trials in April 2008.   In 2008, Karen Kaufmann was named the WAC Stan Bates Award Winner. She is the first Aggie in school history to earn the distinguished honor. The award is named in honor of former WAC Commissioner Stan Bates and recognizes the leagues top male and female scholar-athletes for both athletic and academic accomplishments. Bohm was a third team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2007-08. She was just the third Aggie in school history to accomplish the prominent feat.   In 2006-07, the Aggies fought adversity but they rebounded to record a fifth-place showing at the WAC Championships. At the league meet, Thomson led the team as a freshman with a silver medal in the 400 IM and school record in the 1,650 free, which was also a fourth-place finish.   The Aggies had success in the classroom as well as they ranked second on the NCAA Division I Academic All-American list for the fall 2006 semester according to the CSCAA.   Pratt led NM State to wins over Northern Colorado and Florida International/North Texas. At the quad meet in Houston, Texas, against the host Cougars, FIU and UNT, Thomson set her first school record in the 1,000 free.   In his first year with in Las Cruces, Pratt led the Aggie resurgence as the team set three school records at the WAC Championships and captured a pair of individual medals. Under Pratts leadership, NM State won two dual meets, including a conference showdown at San Diego.   Under Pratts tutelage several Aggies had breakout years, including Kelly Freeburn, who won a pair of silver medals at the WAC Championships.   The Aggies also saw great performances from several other swimmers in Pratts inaugural year. Megan Woodworth had an impressive year and set the school record in the 400 IM at the WAC Championships. Woodworth was also part of an 800-free relay team that set another school record at the WAC Championships.   Pratt came to NM State after two seasons as an assistant coach at UNLV where he specialized in coaching the breaststroke. In 2004-05, Pratt helped coach both the mens and womens squads to Mountain West Conference titles, the first for each in school history.   Prior to his stint as an assistant with the Rebels, Pratt was an assistant coach at Rutgers, where he worked with the middle distance and distance swimmers for the Scarlet Knights. He worked with swimmers who lowered 22 school records during the 2002-03 season.   Pratt began his coaching career at his alma mater, Alabama, as a volunteer assistant working with the middle distance and sprint groups. One of the swimmers he worked with, Anne Poleska went on to win the silver medal in the 200 breast at the 2005 NCAA Championships and the 2005 World Championships while also taking the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Pratt also spent two seasons as head coach of the Crimson Tide Aquatics club team.   As a competitor, Pratt was a two-year letterwinner and captain of the Alabama swim team until graduating in 2001. While swimming with the Crimson Tide, Pratt was the recipient of the Marshall Shoemaker Award for efforts in practice. He also participated in the 1996 Canadian Olympic Trials.   Pratt, a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and his wife, Melissa, have two children, Jacob and Olivia.

Judge begins her fourth season as an assistant coach on the NM State swimming and diving team.    The 2015-16 season was a banner year for the program, as the Aggies finished second at WAC Championships. Dorottya Lennert was named the programs first WAC Swimmer of the Year, with Lauren Wood named WAC Freshman of the Year. Judge has now helped coach two WAC Freshmen of the Year (2015 and 2016).   In addition to all of the conference awards, Judge helped coach the first Olympian in program history. Junior Jannah Sonnenschein represented her home country of Mozambique in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sonnenschein swam the womens 100m fly with a time of 1:04.21. This time placed her in seventh place in her heat and 39th overall, beating out six other swimmers in the 100m fly.   One of the highlights of the 2015-16 season was defeating Pac-12 for Oregon State in a meet in Tucson, Ariz. In the meet, the Aggies had three top-3 finishes and nine top-5 finishes. They defeated the Beavers by a score of 188.0-105.0.   The 2013-14 season was one of NM States best, as the squad finished in third place at the WAC Championships with 528 points.  It was the Aggies best finish at the conference meet since also finishing in third place in 2010, and it was their second-highest point total ever, only eclipsed by the 572 points in 2009.   In 2014, Terrin Seaver was crowned the champion in the 100 back while Jessica Legge defended her 100 breast title.  NM State also broke four school records at the 2014 WAC Championships as Seaver broke three swimming records (100 back, 100 fly, 200 back) while diver Jaymee Porter broke the platform event record.    Porter, along with fellow divers Audrey Ruiz and Lauren Reifel, all had scores at the conference meet that qualified them for a zone meet, marking the first time in program history that three divers participated in a zone regional for NM State as all three divers competed at the NCAA Zone E Diving Regional in Colorado Springs, Colo.   NM State had a WAC swimmer of the Week (Seaver) and a WAC Diver of the Week (Ruiz) during the 2013-14 season and at the conclusion of the season a total of 14 Aggies were named to the Academic All-WAC team, showing the programs emphasis on performance both in and out of the pool.   During her first season, Judge was a key part of a coaching staff that saw the Aggies finish third at the 2014 WAC Championships en route to breaking four school records.  She not only assists with coaching, but also is responsible for assisting with team travel, handling administration duties and recruiting.   Judge returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in June 2013. She was a four-year member of the Aggie team from 2006-10.  Before returning to Las Cruces she coached at Notre Dame Prep and taught at Desert Canyon Middle School in Scottsdale, Ariz., for two years, from 2011-13. She taught at Mountainside Middle School in spring 2011, following a teaching stint in Belize in 2010.   As an Aggie student-athlete, Judge competed in the distance freestyle and butterfly events for the Crimson and White. She earned a bachelors degree from NM State in elementary education in 2010. She received the team's Linda Schroeder Academic Award in 2010, served at the SAAC President in 2009 and 2010, and was the 2010 Community Service Student Athlete of the Year.   Judge graduated from Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2006.  A four-year letter winner and team captain, she directed the Wolves to a pair of state championships, two district titles and a regional championship. In 2005, Judge and the Wolves won the 5A Division II State Championship while also taking home the Scottsdale District title. A year earlier, Desert Mountain won the 5A Public School State Championship and the Scottsdale District crown.   Judge was born in Mineola, N.Y., and is the daughter of Steve and Lynn Judge. Rachel Judge Assistant Coach Rachel Judge begins her fourth season as an assistant coach on the NM State swimming and diving team.    The 2015-16 season was a banner year for the program, as the Aggies finished second at WAC Championships. Dorottya Lennert was named the programs first WAC Swimmer of the Year, with Lauren Wood named WAC Freshman of the Year. Judge has now helped coach two WAC Freshmen of the Year (2015 and 2016).   In addition to all of the conference awards, Judge helped coach the first Olympian in program history. Junior Jannah Sonnenschein represented her home country of Mozambique in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Sonnenschein swam the womens 100m fly with a time of 1:04.21. This time placed her in seventh place in her heat and 39th overall, beating out six other swimmers in the 100m fly.   One of the highlights of the 2015-16 season was defeating Pac-12 for Oregon State in a meet in Tucson, Ariz. In the meet, the Aggies had three top-3 finishes and nine top-5 finishes. They defeated the Beavers by a score of 188.0-105.0.   The 2013-14 season was one of NM States best, as the squad finished in third place at the WAC Championships with 528 points.  It was the Aggies best finish at the conference meet since also finishing in third place in 2010, and it was their second-highest point total ever, only eclipsed by the 572 points in 2009.   In 2014, Terrin Seaver was crowned the champion in the 100 back while Jessica Legge defended her 100 breast title.  NM State also broke four school records at the 2014 WAC Championships as Seaver broke three swimming records (100 back, 100 fly, 200 back) while diver Jaymee Porter broke the platform event record.    Porter, along with fellow divers Audrey Ruiz and Lauren Reifel, all had scores at the conference meet that qualified them for a zone meet, marking the first time in program history that three divers participated in a zone regional for NM State as all three divers competed at the NCAA Zone E Diving Regional in Colorado Springs, Colo.   NM State had a WAC swimmer of the Week (Seaver) and a WAC Diver of the Week (Ruiz) during the 2013-14 season and at the conclusion of the season a total of 14 Aggies were named to the Academic All-WAC team, showing the programs emphasis on performance both in and out of the pool.   During her first season, Judge was a key part of a coaching staff that saw the Aggies finish third at the 2014 WAC Championships en route to breaking four school records.  She not only assists with coaching, but also is responsible for assisting with team travel, handling administration duties and recruiting.   Judge returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach in June 2013. She was a four-year member of the Aggie team from 2006-10.  Before returning to Las Cruces she coached at Notre Dame Prep and taught at Desert Canyon Middle School in Scottsdale, Ariz., for two years, from 2011-13. She taught at Mountainside Middle School in spring 2011, following a teaching stint in Belize in 2010.   As an Aggie student-athlete, Judge competed in the distance freestyle and butterfly events for the Crimson and White. She earned a bachelors degree from NM State in elementary education in 2010. She received the team's Linda Schroeder Academic Award in 2010, served at the SAAC President in 2009 and 2010, and was the 2010 Community Service Student Athlete of the Year.   Judge graduated from Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2006.  A four-year letter winner and team captain, she directed the Wolves to a pair of state championships, two district titles and a regional championship. In 2005, Judge and the Wolves won the 5A Division II State Championship while also taking home the Scottsdale District title. A year earlier, Desert Mountain won the 5A Public School State Championship and the Scottsdale District crown.   Judge was born in Mineola, N.Y., and is the daughter of Steve and Lynn Judge.