Three out of four. That’s the number of Big Ten Diver of the Week Awards senior Amanda Lohman won in January.

After winning the award four other times in her career, Lohman nearly doubled that in just a month.

Lohman’s season started slowly, but she’s altered its course since the Michigan women’s swimming and diving team won on Jan. 7 against No. 8 Indiana. With first-place finishes in both the one- and three-meter diving events, her dominating performances were just beginning.

Even with these awards in hand, Lohman has not let the accolades go to her head.

“It gives me a lot of motivation to keep doing what I’m doing,” Lohman said. “(I can't) get complacent and just (have to) keep working harder.”

With the Big Ten Championships around the corner — Feb. 15-18 in Iowa City — it's a good time for things to start clicking.

“I’ve kind of been on an upward trend,” Lohman said. “It’s all starting to come together at the end, which I hope it will still continue to do in the next few weeks.”

Interestingly enough, she wasn’t originally planning to become a Wolverine. When looking at colleges Michigan wasn't Lohman’s first choice. But that all changed when she attended a Michigan women’s swimming and diving meet and received a diving team T-shirt.

“I always wore that to practice,” Lohman said. “I don’t know if that was foreshadowing to where I’d be coming. Michigan was my first recruiting trip and I just loved it.”

As a senior, Lohman has a chance to finish her diving career strong — just as her team has done, winning four of its last five meets heading into Iowa City.

And if the team’s past performance in Iowa City is any indication, Big Tens could go well.

Lohman finished second in one-meter diving and third in both the three-meter and platform diving events at the Hawkeye Invitational earlier this season. Her dives helped the Wolverines take first place in the competition.

Could history repeat itself for Lohman and Michigan in the Big Ten Championships? Perhaps, but you won’t find Lohman or her teammates worrying much about it, as Michigan coach Jim Richardson stresses the importance of taking each meet as it comes.

That’s exactly what the Wolverines plan to do, as they hope Iowa City can be the site of another special performance. When asked how Richardson tells the team to view the upcoming challenge, Lohman responded that they'll have the same mentality as any other meet.

“One dive at a time.”