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

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Tiago Costa

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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.

Athlete Awards
Date	Athlete	Sport
2/8/2018	Daniel Lynch	Men's Track
2/8/2018	Tristan Bean	Wrestling
1/26/2018	Kendra Monnin	Women's Swimming
1/26/2018	Will Van Hoose	Wrestling
1/19/2018	Laura Requena	Women's Basketball
1/19/2018	Brandon Shingles	Men's Basketball
1/11/2018	Logan Robertson	Wrestling
1/11/2018	Steven Smith	Men's Track
1/3/2018	Alexandria Gray	Women's Basketball
1/3/2018	Tamon Scruggs	Men's Basketball
12/19/2017	Tommy Collins	Men's Basketball
12/19/2017	Zjhane West	Women's Basketball
12/14/2017	Brittney Justice	Women's Basketball
12/14/2017	Paul Gonzales	Wrestling
12/5/2017	Leland Swafford	Wrestling
12/5/2017	Savannah Shamblin	Women's Basketball
11/30/2017	Konstantina Pateli	Volleyball
11/30/2017	Michael Scott	Men's Basketball
11/15/2017	Robert Jones	Men's XC
11/15/2017	Jose Domingo Xam-mar	Men's Soccer