Siroki Earns Second Athlete of the Week Award

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Senior Trpimir Siroki was announced at the Southland Conference Athlete of the Week for the second time this season, the first coming during indoor competition.

"I'm happy that he has won this award again," said head coach Brent Ericksen. "Right now he's sitting third in the nation in the decathlon and broke the Croatian National record with the performance. It's always nice to get conference athlete of the week and he deserves it."

Siroki competed at the Texas Relays on the first two days of the four-day competition. His sole focus was the men's decathlon in which he placed third, finishing behind only two Power 5 athletes while beating several others. His mark of 7,838 points placed him first in the Islanders' record books, shattering the previous record by nearly 1,000 points.

His best performance in the ten-event competition was in the high jump where he launched himself 2.11m into the air, clearing the bar, and better than the rest of the competitors by 0.06m. He was also victorious in the long jump after earning a 7.59m mark. Both scores placed Siroki even further into the Islanders' history books as he sits first all-time in the long jump and third in the high jump. His long jump record beats the next highest Islander by 0.30m, which is equivalent to a whole foot.

In the 110m hurdles, he earned second place with a time of 14.32s, coming behind first by a narrow 0.05s. A couple fourth-place finishes in the pole vault (4.90m) and 100m dash (11.06s) aided the performance as well.

Siroki won the award during the third week of the indoor season for the Islanders in the men's heptathlon. He ended the season ranked 21st nationally in the event, still holding the conference's top mark.

A&M-Corpus Christi's track & field program returns to action this weekend at the UTSA Invitational, Apr. 1-2.

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