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Molly Matzoll
Diving • 5-5 • Jr. • Reno, Nev. (McQueen)
2011-12 // Sophomore
Did not compete.
2010-11 // Freshman
Dove in nine meets, including the MVC Championships...Posted a fifth-
place finish at Western Kentucky with a three-meter score of 215.84...
Scored a career best score of 226.03 against Evansville.
High School
Recorded a score of 210 in the one-meter (11 dives)...Regional champion
in 2007 and 2009...Also was part of a leadership and mentoring program.
Personal
Full name is Molly Kathline Matzoll...Has three siblings...Daughter of Karl
and Mary Ellen Matzoll...Born July 30, 1992 in Reno, Nev.
Olaf Meller
Fly/Free • 6-2 • Fr. • Olsztyn, Poland (Szkola Mistrzowstwa Sportowego w Gdansku)
Prior to SIU
Finished sixth in the 100 freestyle at the World Gymnasiade in Qatar
in 2009...Won the 100 freestyle at the Polish Junior Nationals in 2009...
Finished third in the 800 freestyle relay at the Polish Open Nationals in
2010.
Personal
Son of Jola and Lechu Meller...Has one brother, Alan...Majoring in finance.
George Minkel
Freestyle • 6-3 • Jr. • Montgomery, Ill. (Oswego East)
2011-12 // Sophomore
Competed in 10 meets...Won the 100-yard freestyle in a dual meet against
Washington (Mo.)...Posted season bests in all three events at the MAC
Championships, the 50-yard freestyle (21.63), 100-yard freestyle (47.49)
and 200-yard freestyle (1:42.75).
2010-11 // Freshman
Competed in nine meets...Finished sixth in the Washington/Lindenwood
tri-meet...Finished a season-high fifth in the 50 freestyle against
Evansville...Honorable mention Academic All-Conference.
High School
Earned all-conference honors for his conference championships in the 50
and 100 free and the 200 medley relay as a senior...State qualifier in the 200
free relay, 200 medley relay, 50 and 100 free.
Personal
Has a twin brother and two sisters...His sister Susan was a member of the
Saluki swim team...Son of Michael and Millie Minkel...Born May 14, 1992
in Akron, Ohio....Double majoring in exercise science and recreation and
sports administration.
Till Pallmann
Freestyle • 6-6 • Fr. • Zweibrucken, Germany (Helmholtz-Gymnasium)
Personal
Son of Ingrid and Hans-Ingo Pallmann...Has two older brothers, Marc and
Neil...Born June 1, 1993...Majoring in mechanical engineering.
Ella Otto
Backstroke/IM • 5-7 • So. • Knoxville, Tenn. (Bearden)
2012 // Freshman
Joined the team in January 2012...Second-team All-MVC selection...
Competed in all seven meets in the spring...Scored in three events at the
MVC Championships...Placed sixth in the 100-yard backstroke (57.69),
ninth in the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.85), 14th in the 50-yard freestyle
(24.46)...Recorded four top-three finishes.
Prior to SIU
Captain of her team, VFL Sindelfingen...Majoring in kinesiology...Daughter
of Frank Otto and Martina Zille-Otto...Has one brother, Gianni...Full given
name is Marcella Giuliana Otto...Born Jan. 3, 1992, in Berlin.
Hannah Pinion
Backstroke/IM • 5-8 • So. • Knoxville, Tenn. (Bearden)
2011-12 // Freshman
First-team
All-MVC
selection...
Won the 200- (2:03.32) and 400-yard
(4:21.41) individual medley at the
MVC Championships...Set a MVC
Championship record in the 200-yard
individual medley prelim, then beat
her own record in the event’s final...
School record holder in the 200-yard
individual medley...Finished fourth in
the 200-yard backstroke (2:02.98) at the
MVC Championships...Competed in 14
events...Won five events...Recorded 14
top-three finishes.
Perosnal
Three-time All-American...Three-time scholastic All-American...Full
given name is Hannah Marie Pinion...Daughter of Cindi Harbison and Jeff
Pinion...Has one brother, Evan...Step father is Jason Harbison and has two
step brothers, Jordan and Jonathan...Born Oct. 15, 1992...Member of the
National Honor Society...Majoring in bio-medicine.
Oleg Rabota
Back/Free • 5-10 • Jr. • Almaty, Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata)
Hannah Pinion