Candia Receives National Player of the Week Honor
Posted October 25, 2007
Lena Candia has received the NAIA National Offensive Player of the Week Award for the week of October 15-21, the first such award ever bestowed upon any UTB/TSC athlete.

It was a big week of awards for Candia, who was also named Red River Athletic Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week for the same period, and was also named RRAC Offensive Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

Candia, a junior from Malmo Sweden, is also the leading scorer in the RRAC, finishing the regular season with 22 goals in 16 games for a 1.375 average per game, seventh-best in the NAIA.

Candia scored seven goals and added three assists in two games last week.  She had four goals and an assist in an 8-0 win over Texas College and then scored three goals and had two assists against Southwestern Assemblies of God.

In a related recognition, Scorpion teammate Christin Resing was named RRAC Co-Defensive Player of the Week for her role in the two shutout victories. Resing, a freshman from Vreden, Germany, helped hold the two Scorpion opponents scoreless and taking only four shots.

For the NAIA news release about Candia's award, click here.

For the Red River Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors, click here.