IRVING — Victor Perez was named Conference USA Field Athlete of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday. It marks the third consecutive week that a Roadrunner has earned the circuit's weekly award, as Adrian Riley (Jan. 31) and Kelsey Benoit (Jan. 24) were honored the past two Tuesdays.
Perez was victorious in the weight throw with a new program record last Saturday at the Armory Invitational in New York City. The senior from San Antonio registered a program-record toss of 64-5 (19.63m) on his second throw of the day and that topped the field 21 athletes. The performance erased Phil Steinert's five-year-old school mark of 63-9 ½ (19.44m), which came at the 2012 Texas Tech Invitational, and it moved him up to second place on this year's conference leaderboard. It was an improvement of nearly two feet from his previous personal best of 62-7 ¾ (19.09m) that was recorded two weeks earlier at the Texas A&M Aggies Invitational.
UTSA will return to action on Friday at the Howie Ryan Invitational in Houston in what will be the team's final tune-up for the C-USA Indoor Championships.
