Wingate's 4x400 Relay Team and Newberry's Pascual-Rivera Named South Atlantic Conference Varsity Gems Women's Outdoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – Wingate's 4x400-meter relay team of Abbey Heath, Kennedy Rivers, Natalie Pinzan, and Naiobi White were named the South Atlantic Conference Varsity Gems Women's Outdoor Track Athletes of the Week, and Newberry's Andrea Pascual-Rivera was named the South Atlantic Conference Varsity Gems Women's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week for meets contested during the seventh week of the outdoor track & field season, the Conference office announced today.

The Wingate 4x400-meter relay team posted the fastest time in the SAC this season with a time of 3:53.26 at the Charlotte Invitational last week. The quartet finished third in the event. 

Pascual-Rivera, a sophomore thrower from Tarragona, Spain, won the hammer throw at the Georgia Southern Classic with a toss of 52.14 meters, nearly two meters farther than the second place finisher.     

2023 SAC Varsity Gems Women's Track Athlete of the Week
March 21 – Amber Scott, Wingate
March 28 – Alexis Brown, Lenoir-Rhyne
April 4 – Sade De Sousa, Carson-Newman
April 11 – Tatjana Mense, Wingate
April 18 – Alexis Brown, Lenoir-Rhyne
April 25 – Melody Jones, Lenoir-Rhyne
May 2 – Abbey Heath, Kennedy Rivers, Natalie Pinzan, and Naiobi White (4x400 team), Wingate

2023 SAC Varsity Gems Women's Field Athlete of the Week
March 21 – Andrea Pascual-Rivera, Newberry
March 28 – Kadidja Sangare, Carson-Newman
April 4 – Holly Kone, Lenoir-Rhyne
April 11 – Savannah Jordan, Newberry
April 18 – Esma Pajt, Wingate
April 25 – Holly Kone, Lenoir-Rhyne
May 2 – Andrea Pascual-Rivera, Newberry

Varsity Gems is an official corporate partner of the South Atlantic Conference and title sponsor of the Conference's Player of the Week awards program.

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