Jessica Warak Season 2018-19

Honors & Awards

• NCAA Championship Qualifier (Platform, Three-Meter, 2019)
• NCAA Zone D Qualifier (2019)
• One Letter (2019)
• CSCAA All-American Scholar (Honorable Mention, 2019)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2020, 2021)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2018, 2019, 2020; Spring 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2019, 2021)

2020-21 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Jessica Warak did not compete for the Huskers in her third season in the program in 2020-21.

2019-20 (Redshirt)
Warak took a redshirt season after undergoing surgery for a back injury. In the classroom, Warak earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.

2018-19 (Freshman)
Warak produced an excellent first season for the Huskers, capturing 13 top-five finishes, including four runner-up performances. At the Hawkeye Invitational, Warak scored a career-best 273.95 on the platform dive to take second. She competed at the Wally Nakamoto Diving Invitational, where she added another second-place performance on platform, while adding a seventh-place finish on the three-meter dive. In Nebraska’s final regular-season dual against Rutgers, Warak erupted for a career-best three-meter score (331.27) to add another runner-up finish. On the one meter, she added a runner-up finish with a career-best 295.80 in a dual win over Northern Iowa. At the Big Ten Championships, Warak finished 12th in the one-meter board (294.10), 18th on the platform (244.70) and 19th on the three meter (286.60). She punched her ticket to the NCAA Championships with a ninth-place finish on the platform at the Zone D Championships. She closed the year by finishing 22nd on platform (243.62) at the NCAA meet. Outside the pool, Warak was named an honorable-mention CSCAA Scholar All-American. She also earned spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in both the fall and spring semesters. Warak was a member of the 2019 Tom Osborne Citizenship Team.

Previous
Warak won Nebraska Class A state high school diving titles in 2016 and 2017 for Bellevue West High School. She added a third-place finish at state as a freshman, but did not compete at the high school level as a senior in 2018. Warak set the Bellevue West 11-dive school record with a score of 484.25 as a junior at the state championships to post the No. 4 total in Nebraska high school history. She defeated the rest of the field by more than 100 points. Warak was also a three-time All-American. She compiled five top-12 finishes at USA Nationals, including a third-place finish on the platform dive in 2017 for the Nebraska Diving Club. In 2018, Warak helped her team to a second-place finish at the 2018 Zone D meet. Academically, Warak was Bellevue West’s valedictorian and a member of the National Honor Society in 2018. She was also a four-time academic letterwinner while earning three letters in diving. She was a Scholastic All-American in 2017.

Personal 
The daughter of Paula and JR Warak, Jessica was born June 1, 2000 in Bellevue, Neb. Jessica has two sisters, Amber and Hanna. She was an honorable-mention CSCAA Scholar All-American in 2019 and claimed Academic All-Big Ten honors in 2020 and 2021. A nutrition and health sciences major, she earned her bachelor's degree from Nebraska in August of 2022. She claimed seven spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll. She is also a two-time member of the Tom Osborne Citizenship Team. She chose Nebraska over North Carolina, Ohio State and Minnesota.

Career-Best Dives

Event	Score	Meet (Date)
One Meter	295.80	Northern Iowa (2018)
Three Meter	331.27	Rutgers (2019)
Platform	273.95	Hawkeye Invite (2018)