• Williams Baptist soccer

• Hometown: Fort Smith, Ark.

• Liberal arts major expected to graduate May 2020

• Played volleyball and soccer at Northside H.S.; plays soccer for WBU

• Favorite teams and players: US Women’s National Team – Carli Lloyd, Abby Wambach, Sydney Leroux
Mexico National Team – Andres Guardado, Guillermo Ochoa, Gianluigi Buffon, Keylor Navas, Marco Asensio

• Favorite sports moment – personal: Penalty kicks

• Favorite sports moment – overall: Winning in overtime

• What do you like most about WBU? “The people and how close you can become with one another.”

• Who do you most look up to? “My parents.”

• Goals: “Simply to succeed and repay my parents for everything they’ve given me.”

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• Williams Baptist soccer

• Hometown: Batesville, Ark.

• Business administration major expected to graduate May 2019

• Played tennis and soccer in high school and plays soccer for WBU

• Favorite teams: Manchester United and Real Madrid

• Favorite players: Sergio Ramos and Eden Hazard

• Favorite sports moment – personal: “Playing in my first college soccer match and seeing the support that my whole team family had for me and my other teammates from the bench.”

• Favorite sports moment – overall: “Beating Lindenwood at their home for the first time in many years my freshman season.”

• What do you like most about WBU? “The family atmosphere that will never disappear even after I graduate from Williams. My teammates are my brothers.”

• Who do you most look up to? “I really admire my father and Coach Sitibaldi. My father has shown me how to be a man off the field and my coach has given me the tools to compete on the field.”

• Goals: “I want to be involved in Sports Advertising and Recruiting, as well as coach my own team someday.”

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• Williams Baptist softball

• Hometown: Marion, Ark.

• Biology major expected to graduate May 2021

• Favorite players and teams: Florida Softball – Aleshia Ocasio and Amanda Lorenz; AJ Andrews;
St. Louis Cardinals

• Favorite sports moment – personal: “Going 4-4 with two singles, one double, and a HR in a summer ball game after my junior year of high school.”

• Favorite sports moment – overall: “Florida Gators winning the 2015 CWS championship.”

• What do you like most about WBU? “The small campus and that most students are athletes.”

• Who do you most look up to? “My mother and Madelyn Hawley.”

• Goals:
For softball, to get all-conference and have good stats.
Academically, to stay above a 3.3 and pursue a career in the medical field.

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• Southern Arkansas volleyball

• Hometown: North Little Rock, Ark.

• Marketing major expected to graduate Dec. 2019

• Favorite team: Golden State Warriors

• Favorite player: Steph Curry

• Favorite sports moment – personal: Winning MVP two year during my high school career

• What do you like most about SAU? “I love SAU because it’s a home away from home. You’ll meet some of the kindest and most genuine people here, and everybody loves everybody.”

• Who do you most look up to? “My mother is my role model – always has been. I’ve been striving my whole life to half the woman she is.”

• Goals:
To turn my program around.
Get 1,000 kills by my senior year.
Get my team to the conference tournament.

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• Williams Baptist soccer

• Hometown: Harrison, Ark.

• Business administration major expected to graduate Dec. 2020

• Favorite team: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team

• Favorite player: Alex Morgan

• Favorite sports moment – personal: Winning state championships in high school with my best friends.

• Favorite sports moment – overall: When JJ ran a girl over one game.

• What do you like most about WBU? Everyone is friendly.

• Who do you most look up to? My parents.

• Goals: Graduate and move out of Arkansas.

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• Williams Baptist softball

• Hometown: Avilla, Ark.

• Early education major expected to graduate May 2020

• Plays softball in college; played softball, basketball and volleyball at Harmony Grove H.S.

• Favorite player and teams: “I really like Lauren Chamberlain as a softball player. I also enjoy watching D-I college softball in the spring.”

• Favorite sports moment – personal: “Probably my favorite sports moment was when I was a freshman in high school. We were in the state championship for 3A. It was the 7th inning and I was playing on first base and we only had one out. The score was 2-1 we were winning. We had a runner at first base. The next batter hit a line drive to our pitcher and then she threw it to me for the third out. That was a moment I never would forget. It was so awesome to see that all of our work had paid off. We practice almost everyday (even in the rain).”

• Favorite sports moment – overall: “Watching Arkansas softball making it so far through postseason this year.”

• What do you like most about WBU? The environment and the teachers

• Who do you most look up to? My mom.

• Goals:
√ Finish college
√ Get a job
√ Start a family

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