Athlete Awards

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Chance Leissner

  • Award
    Meet the Tornados
  • Week Of
    3/12/2013
  • Sport
    Baseball
  • Bio
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Junior Chance Leissner of the baseball team is the 28th Taco Bell Athlete of the Week for the 2012-13 academic year. He is earning the award for the first time of his career.

Leissner, who entered the weekend having gone 0-for-1 the entire season, broke out offensively by hitting 5-for-9 with a home run, double and five runs batted in against the Yellow Jackets. He also scored twice and recorded at least one hit and one RBI in each game.

A business major from Bay City, Texas, Leissner is the son of Linda and Denton Leissner. He has two twin brothers, Poth and Cole.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
3/19/2012 Jack Cersosimo Men's Golf
3/12/2012 Colton Gommert Baseball
3/5/2012 Teylor Schiefelbein Softball
2/27/2012 Shamika Singleton Women's Basketball
2/20/2012 Shamika Singleton Women's Basketball
2/13/2012 Lashanda Luckey Women's Basketball
2/6/2012 Josh Johnson Men's Basketball
1/30/2012 Paige Parrish Women's Basketball
1/23/2012 Alex O'Neal Women's Basketball
1/16/2012 Christen McLee Women's Basketball
1/9/2012 Nick Haynes Men's Basketball
1/2/2012 Shamika Singleton Women's Basketball
12/20/2011 Lashanda Luckey Women's Basketball
12/12/2011 Margaret Milling Women's Basketball
12/5/2011 Shamika Singleton Women's Basketball
11/28/2011 Darius Anderson Men's Basketball
11/21/2011 Travis Flye Men's Basketball
11/14/2011 Megan Wagenaar Women's Cross Country
11/7/2011 Kendall Williams Women's Soccer
10/31/2011 Megan Wagenaar Women's Cross Country
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