Tulane's Libby Brewer Named American Freshman Diver of the Week
The Tulane swimming and diving team saw diver Libby Brewer named the American’s Freshman Diver of the Week on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 21, following the first two weeks of action, the league office recently announced.
In her collegiate debut, Brewer was a top-three finisher in both the 3-meter and 1-meter diving events at home against Liberty University on Oct. 10-11. She placed third on 3-meter Friday evening with a score of 236.78. She won the 1-meter Saturday afternoon with a score of 256. 95. Her 1-meter score was also enough to place her ninth all-time in the 1-meter in program history.
Brewer is the first Tulane diver to take home a weekly award from the conference since Kelsey Weddington was also named Freshman Diver of the Week on Feb. 4 of last season.
Tulane 2025-26 American Weekly Award Winners
Oct. 21 – Libby Brewer – Freshman Diver of the Week
In Tulane’s 190-163 loss to the Flames to start the season, the program had six event victories and 30 top three finishes.
Next Tulane heads to Denton, Texas to take on North Texas on Saturday, Oct. 25, starting at 10 a.m. with the diving portion of the meet.
and six that were CSCAA Scholar All-Americans. Additionally the program had nine NCAA ‘B’ cuts, placed fifth at the CSCAA Open Water Championships and rack up 10 American Conference Weekly honors (five swimmers of the week, two freshman swimmers of the week, two freshman divers of the week and one conference diver of the week).
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.