PEORIA, Ill. -- It's time to vote for the Prairie Farms Bradley Athlete of the Month! Now that the calendar has flipped to March, it's time to look back at February and vote for which Brave had the best month of action.
Sophomore
Mya Wardle of the women's basketball team, senior
Nadia Potgieter of the track & field team, senior
Mariia Pukhina of the tennis team and junior
Sohrab Rezaei of the baseball team are the nominees for Prairie Farms Bradley Athlete of the Month in February.
Voting opens today at 4:00 p.m., will be open for 48 hours and will be conducted through the @BradleyBraves X account.
Mya Wardle • So. • Women's Basketball • Peoria, Illinois
• Started in all eight games for Bradley during the month of February.
• Scored in double-digits in four games during the month, averaging 10.3 points per game.
• Scored a career-high 25 points against Indiana State on Feb. 7, making eight field goals on 12 attempts and going seven-for-eight from three.
• Earned Missouri Valley Conference Player & Newcomer of the Week on Feb. 9 after averaging 20.5 points per game on 66.7 percent shooting and 84.6 percent from three-point range against Northern Iowa and Indiana State.
Nadia Potgieter • Sr. • Track & Field • Pretoria, South Africa
• Broke her 5000m personal best by a minute at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational, running 16:12.81.
• Her Valentine Invite time ranks as the fourth-fastest 5000m time in Bradley history.
• Her time also remains the top 5000m time in the Missouri Valley Conference by 16 seconds.
Mariia Pukhina • Sr. • Tennis • Moscow, Russia
• Went 5-1 in doubles play during February with
Ann Hsieh and
Ruby Tseng.
• Also went 3-3 in singles play during February.
• Went a perfect 4-0 in singles and doubles matches during Bradley's trip to East Michigan, winning two doubles and two singles matches against Oakland and Eastern Michigan.
Sohrab Rezaei • Jr. • Baseball • Chicago, Illinois
• Started six games for Bradley during the month of February.
• Tallied at least two hits one hit in five games, including a stretch of four games where he had at least two hits.
• Accumulated a .400 batting average with four runs driven in during February.
• Scored three runs and went three-for-three on stolen-base attempts during the month.
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