Student-Athlete of the Week - February 9, 2009
Dani Curran
Name: Dani Curran
Sport: Women's Water Polo
Year: Freshman
Position: Utility
Curran scored 10 goals in five matches played. She scored three goals in a come-from-behind victory over #3 Hawaii on February 4. The Spartans won the match 10-8 in overtime after trailing 7-2 in the third period of the match. The victory gave San Jose State its first win of the season in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
Against #7 Arizona State, Curran came within one goal of the school record for goals scored in a match. She scored six times in an 11-6 victory over the Sun Devils in the fifth-place match at the Stanford Invitational.
Curran added a goal against UCLA at the Stanford Invitational.
San Jose State is now 7-4 on the season and returns to the Aquatics Center on Saturday, February 14, for an MPSF match against California at 12 p.m.
Past 2008-09 Spartan Foundation Student-Athletes of the Week
August 25 - Emmy Belding, Women's Soccer
September 2 - Kyle Reed, Football
September 8 - Emily Burke, Volleyball
September 15 - Erica Moston, Women's Golf
September 22 - Hiroki Akiyama, Men's Soccer
September 29 - Jared Strubeck, Football
October 6 - Kelly Crow, Volleyball
October 13 - Heather Denman, Women's Swimming
October 20 - Carl Ihenacho, Football
October 27 - Jay Myers, Men's Golf
November 3 - Jared Strubeck, Football
November 10 - Nick Cukar, Men's Soccer
November 17 - Ricky Dorrego, Men's Soccer
November 24 - Heather Denman, Women's Swimming
December 1 - Natalie White, Women's Basketball
December 8 - Heather Denman, Women's Swimming
December 15 - Tim Pierce, Men's Basketball
December 22 - Tim Pierce, Men's Basketball
December 29 - C.J. Webster, Men's Basketball
January 5 - Lauren Mar, Women's Swimming
January 12 - Natalie White, Women's Basketball
January 20 - Thomasina Wallace, Women's Gymnastics
January 26 - Adrian Oliver, Men's Basketball
February 2 - Thomasina Wallace, Women's Gymnastics
February 9 - Dani Curran, Women's Water Polo