CORPUS CHRISTI – Isabella Baptiste has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Baptiste earns the award after a third-place finish in the heptathlon at the UTSA Texas Challenge Invitational.
Baptiste finished the seven-event competition with a personal record 4,322 points, which is the second-highest point total in the heptathlon in school history.
The Spring, Texas, native also set personal records in six of the seven events, including a two second PR in the 200m. Baptiste finished second in three of the events, while also coming in first in the long jump with a leap of 5.06m (16' 7¼").
The track and field teams will be right back in action against some of the best competition in the nation, as part of the squad will travel to the Texas Relays on March 26-29, while others will go to the Rice Bayou Classic on March 28-29.
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2013-14 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
3-25-14: Isabella Baptiste, Track & Field
3-19-14: Dawson Yates, Baseball
3-11-14: Shola Adebayo, Women's Basketball
3-4-14: Valentinas Rudys, Men's Track
2-25-14: Shola Adebayo, Women's Basketball
2-18-14: Zane Knowles, Men's Basketball
2-12-14: Jasmine Shaw, Women's Basketball
2-4-14: Paul Hansel, Men's Track
1-28-14: Camesha Davis, Women's Basketball
1-22-14: Jake Kocher, Men's Basketball and Guillaume Rauseo, Men's Tennis
1-14-14: John Jordan, Men's Basketball
1-7-14: Rashawn Thomas, Men's Basketball
12-10-13: Brandi Huff, Women's Basketball
12-3-13: Brittany Mbamalu, Women's Basketball
11-26-13: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
11-19-13: John Jordan, Men's Basketball
11-12-13: Jasmine Shaw, Women's Basketball
11-5-13: Philipp Baar, Men's Cross Country and Ashley Phelps, Volleyball
10-29-13: Vanessa Johnson, Women's Golf
10-22-13: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
10-15-13: Shayla Maldonado, Volleyball
10-8-13: Alyssa Miller, Women's Soccer
10-1-13: Cecilia Jones, Women's Cross Country
9-23-13: Kevin Bettendroffer and Stefania Nicolae, Men's and Women's Tennis
9-16-13: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
9-9-13: Ivy Baresh, Volleyball
9-2-13: Yvette Franco, Women's Soccer
