St. Bonaventure

An NCAA Championship qualifier in both 1991 and 1993, Barbara Vassallo was the finest female diver ever at St. Bonaventure. Her career peaked just as St. Bonaventure joined the Atlantic 10 Conference. In her only chance at the Atlantic 10 Championship meet, which came her senior season of 1992-93, she won both the one-meter and three-meter diving titles and was named the A-10’s Female Diver of the Year.
 
She went on to win the 1993 Eastern Intercollegiate three-meter title and was named Most Outstanding Diver at the Eastern meet. Capping her brilliant career, Vassallo earned All-America honors by virtue of her performance at the 1993 NCAA Championship. She is the only St. Bonaventure diver, male or female, to be named an All-American. Vassallo still holds all of the Bona women’s diving records.

The math and computer science major was equally accomplished in the classroom and was chosen an Academic All-American by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America.