SENIOR/2016-2017: Scored 51 individual points at the PCSC Championships … Had the highest 1-meter dive score on the year with 258.20 at the Malibu Invite … Had the second-highest 3-meter dive score with 212.60 at the PCSC Championships … Named All-PCSC (4th place/1-meter dive, 5th place/3-meter dive) … Named PCSC All-Academic honorable mention … Named a Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
PEPPERDINE DIVE 2015-16: Joined the swim and dive team as a diver prior to the 2015-16 season … Had a stellar first season on the boards, scoring third most individual points at the PCSC Championships with 53 to help lead the Waves to a fourth-place finish … Earned All-PCSC honors in both the 1 meter and 3 meter events … Finished second in the 1 meter at the PCSC meet and fifth in the 3 meter … Earned PCSC Athlete of the Week (10/12/15) … Earned PCSC All-Academic honorable mention and was named a Pepperdine Scholar Athlete.
PEPPERDINE TRACK 2015: Ran at all seven meets as a sophomore ... Established a school record in the 100 hurdles with a 15.38 at the Beach Invitational (4/18) ... Came within two-tenths of a second of breaking the record three times in 2015 before finally setting the mark at the season's final meet ... Also had bests of 13.41 in the 100 meters and 27.65 in the 200 meters, both at Pomona-Pitzer (4/4) ... Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
PEPPERDINE TRACK 2014: Competed at eight meets as a freshman ... The Waves' lone specialist in the 100-meter hurdles ... Ran a wind-aided 15.50 that would have set a school record (Cal Poly, 3/29) ... Best official time was 15.66 (Ben Brown, 3/15), which was just .07 off the school record (#2 all-time on Pepperdine's top-five list) ... Also ran the 100 meters multiple times with a best of 13.35 (Cal Poly, 3/29) ... Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Crean Lutheran High School, located in Irvine, Calif., in 2013 ... Ran three years of varsity track ... Won Academy League titles in the 100 meters, 100-meter hurdles, 300-meter hurdles and 4x100-meter relay as a senior ... Also won league titles in the 100-meter hurdles as a junior and the high jump as a freshman ... Holds school records for the 100-meter hurdles, high jump and 4x1 relay ... Team won the Academy League title in 2013 ... Also lettered in diving and volleyball ... Won a league title in diving in 2010, was second at the CIF meet and was an All-American ... Was a Scholar-Athlete and a member of the National Honor Society.
PERSONAL: Born in Orange, Calif.... Daughter of James and Valerie Occhipinti ... Her father played baseball at Oklahoma Wesleyan ... Has one sister, Alecia, who participates in acrobatics and tumbling at Baylor ... Majoring in psychology ... Went to Kenya on a mission trip ... Studied abroad in Switzerland during fall 2014 ... Chose Pepperdine because "when I stepped on the Pepperdine campus I had an overwhelming sense of assurance that this was the college God wanted me to be at. I did not feel this way about any of the other colleges I visited."
FAVORITES: Enjoys reading, swimming, going to the beach, shooting and discovering new things ... Favorites include Robert Griffin III (pro athlete), "dystopian fiction" (books), Pride and Prejudice (movie), One Tree Hill and Gilmore Girls (TV show), Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Coldpay (musical artist), chocolate (food) and track and field (sport other than swimming).
