{"id":511058,"date":"2026-10-28T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511058\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:38:09","slug":"fresno-states-jenna-pulkkinen-named-pac-12-swimmer-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/511058\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State&#8217;s Jenna Pulkkinen Named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy: Fresno State Athletics<\/p>\n<p>FRESNO, Calif. \u2013 Fresno State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/tag\/jenna-pulkkinen\/\" class=\"auto-link-tag\" title=\"View more articles about Jenna Pulkkinen\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Pulkkinen<\/a> was named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week as announced by the conference on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Pulkkinen marks the first Pac-12 Weekly award in program history for the Bulldogs.\u00a0The senior had a strong opening to the season. In the first meet of the season Pulkkinen set a new program and Aquatics Center record in the 100 IM, besting her own program record from last season and replacing former Bulldog Julia Matney\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bulldogs dual meet against CSU Bakersfield, Pulkkinen pulled away with four events wins. The Finland native also earned a personal best in the 100 butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>Notable<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gobulldogs.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/jenna-pulkkinen\/15796\" rel=\"smarttag external nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15796\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Pulkkinen<\/a> is the first Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week for the 2026-27 season<br \/>\nPulkkinen has earned a total of two Swimmer of the Week nods in her career at Fresno State<br \/>\nPulkkinen currently\u00a0holds six program records (four relays, two individual) and three Aquatics Center records (two relay, one individual)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy: Fresno State Athletics FRESNO, Calif. \u2013 Fresno State\u2019s Jenna Pulkkinen was named Pac-12 Swimmer of the Week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,194493],"class_list":["post-511058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jenna-pulkkinen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}