What Is the SLIAC Athlete of the Week Feature?

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Athlete of the Week is a recurring recognition feature on the official St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) website, sliac.org. It highlights student-athletes from member schools for standout performances during a given week. You will find it surfaced on the site alongside the Scoreboard, Stories, and Social Media areas, which is where the conference publishes its weekly honorees and related coverage.

Where it appears on sliac.org

The SLIAC homepage is organized around a few main content blocks. Based on the site's own headings, these include:

  • Scoreboard — scores and results
  • Stories — news and feature articles
  • Social Media — social feeds and promotion
  • Standings — conference standings
  • Videos — video content
  • Athlete of the Week — the weekly recognition feature

Because Athlete of the Week sits at the same level as Scoreboard and Stories, it functions as a standing editorial feature rather than a one-off article. It is a place readers can return to week after week.

What the feature does

Athlete of the Week serves two purposes:

  1. Recognition — it names student-athletes from SLIAC member schools who delivered notable performances in the prior week's competition.
  2. Storytelling — it gives the conference a recurring human-interest angle that can be shared through Stories and Social Media, tying individual achievements back to the broader league.

The site's own excerpt lists "Athlete of the Week" among its rotating homepage elements, which means the specific names and schools change as the season progresses.

How to use it

If you want to follow the feature:

  • Go to sliac.org and look for the Athlete of the Week block on the homepage.
  • Check the Stories section for the accompanying write-up, which typically gives context on the performance.
  • Follow the conference's Social Media channels for the same announcement in shareable form.
  • Cross-reference the Scoreboard and Standings sections if you want the statistical backdrop behind a given selection.

What it is not

Athlete of the Week is a recognition and news feature, not a ranking system or a qualification for postseason awards. The site does not present it as a formal selection process with published criteria, so treat it as conference editorial coverage rather than an official statistical honor. For the underlying results that inform it, the Scoreboard and Standings sections are the primary references.