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Student-Athlete Of The Week
Stacey Nuveman
• Softball
• Senior
• LaVerne, Calif.
• St. Lucy Priory HS

Senior catcher/first baseman Stacey Nuveman (LaVerne, Calif./St. Lucy Priory HS) of the UCLA Softball Team was selected as the UCLABruins.com Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of Feb. 19-24.

For the week's four games, Nuveman went 10-for-12 for a .833 batting average. She had two home runs and two doubles contributing to a 1.500 slugging percentage, and is now hitting .592 with a 1.163 slugging percentage and a .718 on-base percentage for the season.

On Wednesday against UC Riverside, Nuveman went 1-for-1 with a home run in her only at-bat, recording four RBIs and a run scored to go along with her three walks. Her worst offensive performance of the week came in game two against the Highlanders, a game in which she went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.

In Saturday's doubleheader against Long Beach State, Nuveman turned in a 4-for-4 performance in UCLA's game-one loss, recording two doubles and a walk. In game two, she went 3-for-3 with four RBI, three runs scored, and a three-run home run that traveled 300+ feet.

This is Nuveman's first UCLABruins.com Student-Athlete of the Week honor of the season and her career.

Also nominated: Gennifer Arranaga (w. basketball), Chris Cordeiro (baseball), Jamie Dantzscher (w. gymnastics), Michael Lipscomb (m. track & field), Marcin Matkowski (m. tennis), Tracy O'Hara (w. track & field) and Sara Walker (w. tennis).