Tiago Costa (11/23/2025) - Athlete Awards

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Tiago Costa

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Athletes of the Week
Week Of

11/23/2025
Sport

Men's Soccer
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The WVU Tech Athletic Department has announced its Golden Bear Athletes of the Week for Nov. 17–23, 2025. This week’s honors go to freshman Tiago Costa of WVU Tech men’s soccer and sophomore Troy Harris of WVU Tech wrestling, who delivered championship-winning performances.

Tiago Costa (Lisbon, Portugal)

Costa delivered one of the most unforgettable moments of WVU Tech’s postseason, smashing home the golden goal in the 100th minute to lift the Golden Bears to a 4–3 overtime victory over No. 14 Madonna in the NAIA National Championship Second Round.

The freshman defender rose at the back post on a corner from Hugo Roman, redirecting the service for the walk-off winner that sent Tech to the Round of 16 in Orange Beach. Costa’s poise in the biggest moment helped extend Tech’s unbeaten season to 19 matches and secure one of the program’s most dramatic national tournament victories.

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1/5/2022	Brianna Ball	Women's Basketball
1/5/2022	Ashton Parker	Men's Basketball
12/13/2021	Alanis Hill	Women's Basketball
12/13/2021	Tamon Scruggs	Men's Basketball
12/7/2021	David Rivera Lopez	Men's Track
12/7/2021	Carson Casto	Men's Track
12/3/2021	Andrew Work	Men's Basketball
12/3/2021	Brittney Justice	Women's Basketball
12/2/2021	Chanz Pough	Wrestling
12/2/2021	Donat Fabian	Men's Swimming
12/1/2021	Mia Wildman	Women's Swimming
12/1/2021	Isaiha Casto	Wrestling
11/30/2021	Nathan Morton	Men's XC
11/30/2021	Carmen Camino Falcon	Women's XC
11/23/2021	Guillermo Usechi	Men's Swimming
11/23/2021	Andrea Segovia Fernandez	Women's Swimming
11/15/2021	Lucas Rivera Paramio	Men's Soccer
11/15/2021	Ariana Gentzler	Volleyball
10/28/2021	Donat Fabian	Men's Swimming
10/28/2021	Katie Bol	Women's Soccer