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ANDREA GIRALDO

Texas State University’s history in athletics dates back to the early 1900s, fielding its first football team in 1904, while historical photos from that year also include a women’s basketball team known as “The Gypsies.” Today, Texas State offers 16 intercollegiate sports: nine for women and seven for men. Texas State’s women’s sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field and volleyball. The univer-sity fields men’s teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, football and golf as well as indoor and outdoor track and field. Texas State is a NCAA Division I member and competes as a member institution of the Southland Conference. The post-season tournament champions in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, softball, women’s tennis and volleyball all receive automatic bids to the NCAA championships. So does the conference champion in football, which represents the league in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Since 1998, the SLC has awarded a trophy to the over-all top athletic program called the Commissioner’s Cup. Texas State won its fifth Cup in 2009 after winning five conference championships. The Bobcats also won back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005. In 2009, Texas State also won the SLC wom-en’s all-sports team trophy for the ninth straight year. In 2008-09, Texas State also received its second $1-mil-lion donation and had a school-record 74 of its student-ath-letes graduate. In addition, 134 Bobcat student-athletes were named to the Southland Commissioner’s Honor Roll and 13 student-athletes were selected Arthur Ashe Scholars. Texas State’s football, soccer and volleyball teams won Southland Conference championships, marking the first time in league history that one school has won those three fall championships in one year. The baseball and softball teams also won championships after opening last season in newly constructed stadiums, making Texas State the first school since 1995 and third SLC league member overall to win both of those championships in the same year.

The football team won its first outright conference championship since 1982 and played in the NCAA Division I FCS playoffs for the second time in the last four years. The soc-cer team also won the SLC Tournament to earn its first berth to

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Athletics At Texas Statethe NCAA Tournament since 2004. The women’s softball team also won the SLC Tournament and beat Northwestern in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The baseball team also earned an at-large berth to play in the NCAA Regional after finishing as the runner-up team in the SLC Tournament.

Jeff Gerlich and Corey Roberson also played in the NCAA Men’s Golf Regional after earning All-Southland Con-ference honors.

Kemuel Morales earned All-America honors after fin-ishing among the Top 10 throwers in the shot put at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Baseball’s Kane Holbrooks and Paul Goldschmidt earned Second and Third-Team All-America honors, respec-tively, while Tyler Sibley was named a Freshman All-Ameri-can.

In the fall of 2009, the women’s soccer team won its second straight Southland Conference championship, the women’s volleyball team won the SLC Tournament and played in the NCAA Tournament, and the football team ended the regular season ranked 25th nationally.

Individually, Britney Curry was named the Southland Conference Player of the Year and Kat Conner earned SLC Coach of the Year honors in soccer. Bradley George was named the SLC Football’s Offensive Player of the Year, while Jessica Weynand and Amber Calhoun earned 2009 All-SLC First Team honors in volleyball.

Two years ago, the women’s basketball team won its first-ever regular season championship and recorded the school’s first postseason win with a first round victory in the Women’s NIT. The women’s golf team also played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 2008.

In addition to the new baseball and softball stadiums, the Jerry D. and Linda Gray Fields West Side Complex at Bob-cat football stadium contains 15 suites and 450 club seats. Meanwhile the tennis complex has a new locker room and new locker rooms are being built adjacent to the soccer field.

These improvements came after new courts were in-stalled in Strahan Coliseum and the Jowers Center Practice Gymnasium, new locker rooms were constructed for the Bob-cat men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams, new video boards were installed in each of the football, volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball/softball facilities in 2007-08.

THE WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM WON THE 2008 AND 2009 SLC CHAMPIONSHIPS

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TEXAS STATE ALSO MOVED INTO A NEW SOFTBALL STADIUM BEFORE WINNING BOTH THE 2009 SOUTHLAND CONFER-ENCE REGULAR SEASON AND TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP

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TEXAS STATE MOVED INTO A NEW BOBCAT FIELD BEFORE WINNING THE 2009 SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

TEXAS STATE WON THE 2008 SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE WOMEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP AND

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Bobcat Tennis Honor RollTEXAS STATE IN AIAW TOURNAMENTS

Year Tournament Finish 1980 State AIAW II Champion1981 State AIAW II Champion1981 National AIAW Ninth

TEAM CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPSYear Conference 1984 – Lone Star Conference1987 – Gulf Star Conference1988 – Southland Coinference1989 – Southland Conference

STATE AIAW SINGLES CHAMPIONSYear Player Position1980 – Susan Youngblood No. 1 Brenda Heiman No. 3 Suzanne Naworski No. 4 Debbie Cook No. 51981 – Lynette Woodbridge No. 1 Joanne Gulley No. 2 Brenda Heiman No. 3 Debbie Cook No. 5

STATE AIAW DOUBLES CHAMPIONSYear Player Position1980 – Lynette Woodbridge/Joanne Gulley No. 1 Brenda Heiman/Debbie Cook No. 2

AIAW ALL-AMERICANYear Player 1980 – Joanne Gulley

ALL-LONE STAR CONFERENCEShari SlaterLinda NicholasGina GistingerLaura CooperMaria LedesmaTherese Devine

ALL-GULF STAR CONFERENCEYear Player 1986 – Therese Devine1986 – Joslyn Bendt1986 – Karen Reeves1986 – Maria Ledesma1986 – Noel Quevraux1987 – Karen Reeves1987 – Maria Ledesma1987 – Noel Quevraux1987 – Melissa Martin

ALL-SOUTHLAND CONFERENCEYear Player Position1988 – Noel Quevraux Singles1988 – Maria Ledezman Singles1989 – Dee Dee Guerra Singles Tracey Martin Singles1990 – Aurora Capuano Singles Tracey Martin Singles1991 – Tracey Martin and Jennifer Bowman Doubles1991 – Tara James and Mara Lencina Doubles2003 – Leja Sirola/Margaret Potyrala No. Two (Second Team Doubles)2005 – Tina Klemenc (Second Team) No. Five2007 – Alejandra Guilda (First Team) No. Three

Year Player Position2009 – Kiki Kruse (First Team) No. Five Ashley Ellis (Second Team) No. Two Mackenzie Farmer (Second Team) No. Six

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

Year Player 2007 – Alejandra Gulida 2009 – Kiki Kruse

CONFERENCE SINGLES CHAMPIONSGULF STAR CONFERENCEYear Player 1987 – Maria Ledesma Noel Quevraux Karen Reeves

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCEYear Player Position1988 – Maria Ledesma No. One Noel Quevraux No. Two Tracey Martin No. Four1989 – Tracey Martin No. Three Dee Dee Guerra No. Six1990 – Tracey Martin No. Two Aurora Capuano No. Five

SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSYear Player Position1988 – Kim Abbey/Dee Dee Guerra No. Three1989 – Kim Abbey/Dee Dee Guerra No. Two1989 – Tracey Martin/Noel Quevraux No. Three1991 – Tracey Martin/Jennifer Bowman No. One1991 – Tara James/Mara Lencina No. Three

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UNIVERSITY AND ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATIONDR. DENISE M. TRAUTHPresidentB.A., COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPHM.A., THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYPH.D., UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

DR. LARRY TEISDirector of AthleticsTCU, 1988

Since Denise M. Trauth was named the ninth president at Texas State University-San Marcos in June 2002, the university has achieved many milestones, including:• Texas State has set a new enrollment record every fall. The Fall 2008 enrollment of 29,105 made

Texas State the 55th-largest public university in the country and the fifth largest in Texas.• Texas State received the largest private gift in its history, a $20 million endowment from Emmett

and Miriam McCoy of San Marcos to support the college of business administration that now bears the couple’s names. In 2006, the college moved into its new facility, Emmett and Miriam McCoy Hall.

• Under Dr. Trauth’s leadership, Texas State has developed a new university mission statement, new shared values, new university goals, a strategic plan and completed a University Plan to guide its academic development through 2012, and a Campus Master Plan for development of its facilities through the year 2015.

• Dr. Trauth secured the gift of 101 acres of prime land from the Avery Family for the University’s Round Rock Higher Education Center. The first building, the Avery Building, opened in 2005, and the second building, the Nursing Building, will be completed in summer 2010.

• Texas State’s new nursing program, launched by a $6 million gift from the St. David’s Community Health Foundation in 2006, will admit its first class of juniors during the coming year who will begin their studies in Fall 2010.

• Texas State dedicated the Ingram School of Engineering in April 2008, launching a major new aca-demic initiative. The school is named for Bruce and Gloria Ingram, who donated $5 million for the engineering program.

• Patti Harrison of Wimberley donated $8 million to begin fund-raising for the Performing Arts Cen-ter. The center is one of five pillars of the Pride in Action campaign, along with academic excel-lence, athletics, an alumni center, and library support.

• The campus added new facilities including Bobcat Stadium Expansion Phase 1a, Bobcat Baseball/Softball Stadium Improvements, the Student Recreation Center Expansion, Concho Green, im-provements to the North LBJ bus loop, San Marcos and San Jacinto residence halls, Bobcat Village, the Student Health Center, the Mitte Complex, the End Zone Complex at Bobcat Stadium, expan-sion of Strahan Coliseum, McCoy Hall and its parking garage, and the Speck Street parking garage. A major expansion of the Family and Consumer Sciences Building is currently underway.

• The number of full-time faculty has increased from 694 to 952. Dr. Trauth has also overseen a suc-cessful plan to make faculty and staff salaries more competitive.

• From 2002 to 2008, African-American student enrollment increased by 22% and Hispanic enroll-ment by 46%, to the point that African-Americans and Hispanics now make up 28% of the student body. The University expects to become a Hispanic Serving Institution (25% of the enrollment Hispanic) by 2012.

• The academic program now includes three additional doctorates (aquatic resources, physical ther-apy, and mathematics education), and an undergraduate electrical engineering major with other doctoral programs under development in criminal justice, materials science and engineering, and developmental education.

• Faculty research activity has nearly doubled to its current level of $19 million in active grants, in-cluding a $4 million award last year to establish a center for the research, development and com-mercialization of multifunctional materials funded by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF).

• In 2004, Texas State initiated the Common Experience, an annual campus-wide focus for classroom discussion, performing arts, exhibitions, invited speakers, and community involvement. After last year’s focus on “Civic Responsibility and the Legacy of LBJ,” part of a national year-long celebration of the LBJ Centennial, this year, the campus will focus on “The Whole Mind: Crossing Boundaries of Disciplines.”

In addition to her on-campus responsibilities, President Trauth is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the rec-ognized regional accrediting body for the 11 southern states. She is a past chair of the Texas Council of Public University Presidents and Chancellors, an organization representing 35 institutions and six university systems in Texas. In addition, she is a member of the Commission on Presidential Leader-ship and Global Competitiveness of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and a member of the executive committee of the Texas International Education Consortium.

She is a past president of the Austin Area Research Organization, better known as AARO, a nonprofit organization composed of business and community leaders in the five-county Austin region.

Dr. Trauth came to Texas State from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. She has also held academic and admin-istrative positions at Bowling Green State University and the University of Tulsa. She holds a bach-elor’s degree in English literature from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio, a master’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Iowa. She is married to Dr. John Huffman, professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University and UNC Charlotte. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.

As Director of Athletics since 2004, Dr. Larry Teis has led Texas State’s Athletics Department to three Southland Conference Commissioner’s Cups, extended its current streak to nine straight SLC Women’s All-Sports Trophies, and recorded several Southland Conference championships and SLC Tournament titles.

Teis was honored as the 2005-06 General Sports TURF Systems AD of the Year Division I-AA West Region Winner, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. In 2007, he was honored by the All-American Football Foundation with the General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletic Director Award.

Citing his leadership skills, experience, and values as elements that made him the right fit for the position, Texas State President Denise M. Trauth named Teis the Bobcats’ eighth Director of Athletics in March 2004. A member of Texas State’s athletic administration since January, 1999, he resides on the President’s Council and reports directly to President Trauth.

After capturing back-to-back Commissioner’s Cups during his first two years as the Director of Athletics, Texas State won another Commissioner’s Cup in 2008-09 after the Bobcats won five South-land Conference championships in 2008-09. Additionally, Texas State won a pair of SLC Tournament Championships and had four teams and two individuals participate in the 2008-09 NCAA Tourna-ments.

In addition to its overall success on the field, Texas State also had a record number of student-athletes earning their bachelor’s degrees in 2008-09 as 74 student-athletes graduated. The 2008-09 graduation success rate was 78%, the highest in school history. Additionally, more than 100 student-athletes, Strutters, cheerleaders and student trainers have maintained a grade point average of 3.5 and above in the 2008 spring and fall semesters, while another 104 student-athletes were named to the Capital One SLC Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll after having maintained a 3.0 GPA.

New facilities and renovation projects have totaled over $43 million during the past six years. Facility improvements in the last year included the complete renovation and grand opening of the new Bobcat baseball and softball stadiums. The Jerry and Linda Gray Fields Westside Complex that includes 15 new suites and 450 club seats was added to the Bobcat Football Stadium. In addition, new locker rooms were added to Texas State’s soccer field and tennis complex. These improvements came after new video boards were installed in each of the football, volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball/softball facilities in 2007-08.

In 2009, Texas State Athletics received a $6 million gift from Jerry and Linda Fields. This came after their gift of $100,000 that went towards Texas State’s football season tickets drive for the 2008 season. The first $1 million gift to the department came from Darren B. Casey in 2008. Likewise, in 2008-09, the annual fund-raising saw a six percent increase in overall giving after a record-setting campaign the year prior.

Furthermore, in 2007-08 corporate sponsorships reached an all-time high in addition to the student government passing an athletic fee, dramatically increasing departmental support for the next five years.

Two years ago, the volleyball team won the Southland Conference Tournament. At the same time the women’s basketball team won its first-ever regular season championship and recorded the school’s first postseason win with a first round victory in the Women’s National Invitational Tour-nament. Individually, Nick Clark was the first Bobcat football player to be named a finalist for the Draddy Award for his outstanding football/academic performance, and Joyce Ekworomadu repre-sented the women’s basketball team in the national three-point shooting contest at the NCAA Final Four in San Antonio.

The future looks bright for Bobcat Athletics as the NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification announced that Texas State Athletics was certified as operating its athletics program in “substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the Division I membership.”

During his first five years, Teis restructured the department’s administration with the hiring of key senior administrative staff and five head coaches.

Texas State has restructured its Athletics Academic Center and created a new website for Ath-letics. Teis has completed and implemented a five-year strategic plan for the department.

In his previous role as associate athletic director for external affairs, he had oversight of sev-eral key areas, including game management, marketing, promotions, facilities and ticket sales. Teis was also responsible for the administration of men’s and women’s golf, baseball and volleyball as well as the Strutters. From 1998-2002, he oversaw the Bobcat Athletic Foundation.

A native of Fort Worth, Teis came to Texas State after spending four years as the director of athletic marketing at TCU. In that position, he developed the marketing plan for all sports at TCU, in-cluding facility signage, season ticket campaigns, game day operations, and corporate sponsorships.

Prior to his tenure at TCU, Teis was the assistant director of New Mexico’s Lobo Club for three years, working in all aspects of the athletic department’s annual fund drive.

Teis has served on several key Southland Conference committees, and is an active member of the local community, including serving on the board of directors of the San Marcos Convention and Visitors Bureau.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from TCU, a master’s in sports administration from St. Thomas University of Miami, Fla., and a doctorate in health, physical education and recreation with an emphasis in sports administration from the University of New Mexico.

Teis resides in San Marcos with his wife, Jana, and two daughters, Taylor (16) and Shelby (12).

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TORYPLUNKETTHead CoachSeventh SeasonTCU, 1989

After reaching the Southland Conference tour-nament for the sixth consecutive year, head coach, Tory Plunkett begins her seventh season as the wom-en’s tennis head coach at Texas State and looks to lead her team a step further and challenge for a confer-ence title for the 2009-10 season.

The Bobcats return a quartet of senior from last season’s team that finished with a 10-7 overall record and a 7-4 SLC mark. She also has added four freshmen from South America.

Plunkett was named Texas State’s head coach on July 16, 2003, and has posted a 55-61 overall record and a 36-26 dual match record against Southland Con-ference teams after her teams won a combined 21 SLC dual matches each of the last three years.

She began her head coaching career at Texas State in 2003-04 and led the Bobcats to a 10-10 over-all record and a fifth-place finish after Texas State won six dual matches.

Following a pair of seventh-place finishes, Texas State has finished among the top five teams in the league during the past three years. Texas State began the stretch with a 7-12 overall record that included a 4-6 SLC mark despite losing three league matches by 4-3 scores in 2004-05. The top player on the team that season was Tina Klemenc, who earned Second-Team All-Southland Conference honors as a number five singles player.

Texas State finished the 2005-06 season with a 7-14 record when the Bobcats played three nationally-ranked teams in its first five matches. In Southland Conference play, Texas State recorded a 5-5 dual match record.

Three seasons ago, Texas State won seven South-land Conference matches for the first time in school history and finished the season in fifth place with a 7-3 league record. The Bobcats finished the year with an 11-7 overall record and Ali Gulida also was named the 2007 Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year.

Two seasons ago, the Bobcats won seven South-land Conference dual matches for the second straight year and posted the best finish in her tenure after fin-ishing the regular season listed fourth in the league’s standings. Texas State ended the season with a10-11 overall record despite having to battle through some nagging injuries.

Last fall, Plunkett again lead the team to seven conference victories landing them the fifth seed in the SLC tournament. The bobcats finished the 08-09 sea-son with an overall record of 10-7 and an SLC record of 7-4.

TORY PLUNKETT AT A GLANCECollege: TCU, 1989

Playing ExperienceWas an All-American doubles player at TCU

in 1988...was a two-time All-Southwest Confer-ence selection and named to the SWC’s All-Decade Team...played two seasons at Northwestern State, where she was a two-time All-Gulf Star Confer-ence champion and named to the Gulf Star’s All-Academic team twice...played professionally in Portugal, Australia, England and 12 different states in the US.

Coaching ExperienceBegan her coaching career as an assistant

coach at UT Arlington in 1994...was an assistant coach at UTSA in 1995-96... served as associate head coach at UT Arlington from 1996-98...named head coach at Texas State on July 16, 2003.

TORY PLUNKETT’S CAREER RECORD AS HEAD COACH Southland SLCYear Overall Pct. Conference Pct. Finish2004 10-10 .500 6-4 .600 Fifth2005 7-12 .368 4-6 .400 Seventh2006 7-14 .333 5-5 .500 Seventh2007 11- 7 .611 7-3 .700 Fifth2008 10-11 .476 7-4 .636 Fourth2009 10-7 .588 7-4 .636 FifthTotals 55-61 .474 36-26 .581

This season Plunkett hopes to go a step further in her success and take the cats to a conference cham-pionship. If successful, it would be the first ever South-land Conference title for women’s tennis.

During the Wilson/ITA Fall Regional Champion-ships, Plunkett works with the regional tournament director in selecting participants, seeding, overseeing the coaches meeting and tournament management of the event. She also is involved in helping coordinate the ITA regional post-season awards.

While playing a schedule which included matches against five, nationally-ranked opponents the Bobcats posted a 7-14 overall record in 2006. But the Bobcats were 5-5 in Southland Conference play.

Plunkett was named Texas State’s head coach af-ter serving as the associate head coach at UT Arlington from 1996 to 1998. She began her collegiate coaching career as an UTA in 1994. Plunkett also served as an assistant coach at UTSA from 1995 to 1996.

She brought a wealth of both collegiate and pro-fessional tennis experience to the Texas State program. She also served as a teaching professional at Willo Bend Polo and Hunt Club, and worked at John Benson’s Tennis Camp in Colorado for five summers.

Along with teaching tennis professionally, Plun-kett played professionally for several years before en-tering the coaching ranks.

A 1989 graduate of Texas Christian University, Plunkett was an All-America selection for the Horned

Frogs in 1988. She was a two-time All-Southwest Conference selection and also named to the SWC’s All-Decade Team.

Additionally, Plunkett was a two-time Gulf Star Conference champion while playing at Northwestern State (1985-86) and was named to the Gulf Star’s All-Academic Team both seasons.

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2009-10 TEXAS STATE BOBCATS

2010 TEXAS STATE WOMEN’S TENNIS ROSTERName Ht. Cl. Exp. Hometown (High School/Last School)Amanda Alvarado 5-6 Sr. 1L. Waco, Texas (Midway/Schreiner)Mariana Charalambous 5-3 Fr. HS Buenos Aires, Argentina (Atletico)Andrea Giraldo 5-7 Sr. 3L Cali, Colombia (Jefferson Colegio)Melissa Hadad 5-3 Fr. H.S. Cali, Colombia (Jefferson Colegio)Kiki Kruse 5-6 Sr. 1L. Klingelbach, Germany (Adolf-Reichwein Schule/Barry)Nyssa Peele 5-4 Sr. 1L. Austin, Texas (St. Stephens Episcopal/Rhode Island)Mariana Perez 5-5 Fr. H.S. Bucaramanga, Colombia (La Quinta Del Puente)Gabriela Rojas-Pelaez 5-4 Fr. H.S. Cali, Colombia (Talentos)

Head Coach: Tory Plunkett

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AMANDA ALVARADO5’ 6” • SENIOR WACO, TEXAS MIDWAY HIGH SCHOOLSCHREINER

2008-09Played in one dual match at Rice after sitting out the previous season as a transfer.

AT SCHREINEREarned the team’s Spirit Award...served as the teams number two and number three singles player…defeated Howard Payne’s Brea Roth 6-2, 6-0 in the finals of the ITA Regional Championship’s Consolation Bracket…won a number two singles match 6-2, 6-3 against McMurry…was a member of the President’s List and the Schreiner Athletics Academic Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL Helped Midway reach the quarterfinals of the 2006 Fall Team Tennis Regional Championships ... also had a third-place District finish in mixed doubles in 2006 ... member of the National Honor Society and Spanish Club ... served a Diversified Career Preparation Internship and another internship at a kindergarten.

PERSONALNickname is “Mando” ... major is exercise and sports science at Texas State…born Mar. 18, 1988 in Waco, Texas…daughter of Mario and Masha Alvarado of Woodway, Texas … her father played baseball at Northwestern Oklahoma State and her uncle, Freddy, played baseball at Sul Ross ... another uncle, LeRoy, also played baseball at Lamar Junior College in Colorado ... served as an adult sponsor and was the recreation leader for the Junior High Jubilee and at the First Presbyterian Church of Waco in 2008… also served as a small group leader at youth celebration at Missouri Ranch in 2009 ... hobbies include cooking.

ALVARADO ON THE COURT AT TEXAS STATESingles 1 2 3 4 5 6 SLC Overall2009 0-1 0-0 0-1