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SNHU Student-Athletes of the Week: September 28-October 4

Southern New Hampshire University Athletics
Student-Athletes of the Week (September 28-October 4
, 2026)

Female Athlete of the Week: Zoe Demers - Field Hockey - Sr., F
Zoe Demers (Manchester, N.H.) scored a pair of goals in a 2-1 week for field hockey. She found the back of the net for the lone tally in a 3-1 loss to Assumption University on Wednesday and then scored the eventual game winner in a 2-1 victory versus Pace University on Friday.

Male Athlete of the Week: Alvaro Garcia - Men's Soccer - 5th, GK
Alvaro Garcia (Barcelona, Spain) turned away 11 of the 12 shots he faced in a 1-0-1 week for No. 5 men's soccer. Garcia stopped six of seven in Tuesday's 1-1 tie at Assumption University, before making five saves in a 3-0 blanking of Bentley University on Saturday. It was Garcia's fourth clean sheet of the season.


Other Penmen Notables: 
Lauren Fox - Women's Soccer - Jr., M
Lauren Fox (Yonkers, N.Y.) scored both SNHU goals in Wednesday's 4-2 loss at third-ranked Bentley.

Agustina Miranda Waigand - Field Hockey - So., GK
Agustina Miranda Waigand (Miami, Fla.) stopped 19 of 23 shots in a 2-1 week for field hockey. She secured her third shutout of the year with one save in Monday's 6-0 triumph over D'Youville University, before making nine saves in Wednesday's 3-1 loss to 10th-ranked Assumption University and in Friday's 2-1 victory over Pace University.

Jordyn Carroll - Women's Volleyball - Jr., OH
Jordyn Carroll (Moultonborough, N.H.) recorded 13 kills (3.25 k/s), two aces (0.50 sa/s) and three blocks (0.75 b/s) in women's volleyball's  3-1 loss to Pace University on Saturday.

Barbara Brito - Women's Tennis - So.
Barbara Brito (São Brás de Alportel, Portugal) went 3-1, including 2-0 at No. 3 singles, during a 2-0 week for women's tennis. Brito took down Gabriela Yamate, 6-4, 6-4, in Thursday's 5-2 win at Franklin Pierce University, and then tripped up Luciana Flores Urey, 6-4, 6-2, in another 5-2 victory against Assumption University on Saturday. She split her No. 3 doubles matches with freshman Luna den Besten (Amsterdam, Netherlands), including a 6-1 win over FPU's Dylan Smith and Ines Gabarro.

Vicente Preto - Men's Tennis - Jr.
Vicente Preto (Sesimbra, Portugal) went 2-1 during a 2-0 week for men's tennis. He won his No. 1 singles match in Saturday's 5-2 victory against Assumption University, as he led, 5-7, 6-2, 3-1, when Luca Figueiredo retired. On the doubles side, Preto teamed with junior Nils Dueppe (Frankfurt, Germany) for a 6-3 win against Mats Hannestad and Tarik Zubovic in a 4-3 win over Merrimack College on Tuesday.

Andrew Surprenant - Men's Golf - Jr.
Andrew Surprenant (Boscawen, N.H.) fired a 3-under 67 to finish atop the leaderboard at the Penmen Fall Invitational on Tuesday at Concord Country Club, as men's golf also placed first. Surprenant has now won all three events the Penmen have competed in this season.
 

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