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Swimming and diving portraits on September 15, 2025. Kevin White/Missouri State University

Zach Mendez

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    11/24/2025
  • Sport
    Swimming and Diving
  • Bio
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This week's Murney Student-Athlete of the Week is Missouri State swimming and diving's Zach Mendez. He showcased a stellar performance at the House of Champions Invitational three-day meet, coming home with four podium finishes across individual and team events. Mendez was victorious in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 15:29.83. He teamed up with sophomore Ilias El Fallaki, senior Jack Grandy and sophomore Máté Miszlai to take gold with a time of (6:34.37) in the 800-yard freestyle relay, in addition to earning a second-place finish (4:22.74) in the 500-yard freestyle and a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle (1:36.44).


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
5/15/2018 Ben Whetstone Baseball
5/8/2018 Drew Millas Baseball
5/1/2018 Fati Khamissi Women's Tennis
4/24/2018 Rachel Johnson Women's Golf
4/17/2018 Jessica Allen Women's Track & Field
4/10/2018 Daphne Plummer Softball
4/3/2018 Hunter Steinmetz Baseball
3/27/2018 Jeremy Eierman Baseball
3/20/2018 Darian Frost Softball
3/13/2018 Jeremy Eierman Baseball
3/6/2018 Drew Millas Baseball
2/27/2018 Jamilah James Women's Track & Field
2/20/2018 Sydney Zupan Swimming and Diving
2/13/2018 Alize Johnson Men's Basketball
2/6/2018 Aubrey Buckley Women's Basketball
1/30/2018 Artur Osvath Swimming and Diving
1/23/2018 Liza Fruendt Women's Basketball
1/16/2018 Brittany McPike Women's Track & Field
1/9/2018 Alize Johnson Men's Basketball
12/27/2017 Alize Johnson Men's Basketball
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