IRVING, Texas (March 20, 2017) -- FIU senior first baseman Stephanie Texeira (Miami, Florida / Gulliver Prep) was today named the Conference USA Player of the Week, as selected by league officials. The four-year starter captured another program career record during the team's 4-0 week on the field.
 
Texeira broke school records for herself while helping the Panthers to a team school mark as part of the team's program-record 12-game win streak. Texeira had at least a run and a hit in all four games this week, leading the team with three extra-base hits in the perfect week. She tied the school's career run record after scoring twice Wednesday against Fairfield and broke the mark with her first run in game one of the Saturday doubleheader against North Texas. After scoring five runs for the week, she has 139, three ahead of the previous school career mark. Texeira had two doubles to pull to within eight of the school record of 51, while also hitting a homer, extending her own school record to 38 career round-trippers.
 
Not only are her numbers significant from a career standpoint, they were key for the results of the games. She walked and scored a run in the first inning Wednesday night against Fairfield, tying the score in the first frame. In Saturday's doubleheader, she had the first RBI of the first game with an RBI double in the first inning and scored a run on a homer later in that inning in the 8-3 win over the Mean Green. She added another RBI later in the game. In the nightcap, she scored the tying run in the sixth after a leadoff double in the frame, as the Panthers walked it off in the seventh in the 2-1 victory. In Sunday's 1-0 win, Texeira recorded an inside-the-park homer for the game's only score to secure the sweep and preserve the win streak.
 
Texeira hit .500 for the week, putting together a 1.125 slugging percentage. She also drew five walks for a .714 on-base percentage. Texeira owns school career records for homers (39), RBI (170), runs (139), walks (121) and all three averages (batting, on-base and slugging), while second in doubles (41) and fifth in hits (203). In conference, she leads all hitters this season with a .537 on-base percentage, thanks to a league-leading 24 walks, and is tied for fifth in slugging (.689) and tied for eighth in batting average (.400). She is tied for second with 31 runs scored, second outright with 32 RBI and tied for seventh with 36 hits. Her seven homers tie for the team lead and are tied for fourth in Conference USA.
 
This is the first time this season she has been selected for this honor, but the third time in her career. Texeira won Player of the Week on February 29, 2016, and again during the first week of her freshman year, on February 10, 2017.
 
Texeira is the third Panther to earn a weekly award from the league. Freshman Shannon Saile (Land O'Lakes, Florida / Land O'Lakes HS) was the C-USA Pitcher of the Week on March 13 and junior Kasandra Castle (Lake Worth, Florida / Palm Beach Central) won the opening weekend on February 13.
 
The Panthers will host Jacksonville Thursday afternoon at 6 p.m. before heading out of the state of Florida for the first time this season, at Middle Tennessee, for a weekend Conference USA series.

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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports, and is a proud member of Conference USA. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and the FIU Football Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers more than 180 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes $9.8 billion each year to the local economy. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded over 200,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has over 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.