STUNT Heads West to Face Four in California

This Week in Rattlers STUNT
vs Arizona Christian, at Hope International, at Vanguard, vs Concordia Irvine
March 13-14 // Games 12-15 // Fullerton, Calif. // Costa Mesa, Calif.
Broadcast: GSACSportsnetwork.com & VanguardLions.com

Quick Hits

•    St. Mary's STUNT heads to California for the first time in school history, competing against four teams in two days. The Rattlers start with NAIA teams Arizona Christian and Hope International on Thursday before facing a pair of Division II top-10 teams in Vanguard and Concordia Irvine on Friday.

•    Junior Riley Smith will be competing about 90 minutes away from her hometown of Canyon Lake during both days this week. The base has been a member of the team since its inception, earning Lone Star Commissioner's Honor Roll several times and she's a member of the leader's council.

•    The seeding for the second annual Lone Star Conference Championship will come down to a flip - and not the kind the athletes do on the mats - but a coin flip between Texas Woman's and St. Mary's for the two-seed in the tournament. Both teams are 5-3 in the standings with a split against each other and identical records with the other three teams in the league. DBU has won the regular season and will host the tournament for the second-straight year.

•    St. Mary's went 2-1 during its home portion of the schedule, defeating Lone Star newcomers St. Edward's and Texas A&M-Kingsville before falling to #5 DBU. 

•    Junior Guiliana Devora was named the Lone Star Conference Stunter of the Week after being named the Player of the Game twice in the four contests at the TWU Tournament and earning 85 power points. She is the first Rattler awarded this year, and the fifth in the history of the league.

•    St. Mary's went 3-1 at the TWU Tournament, bouncing back after suffering the first-ever loss to the host Pioneers, to win the final three contests. At the tournament, the Rattlers posted their first-ever 24-0 shutout, doing so over the Javelinas.

•    In the first week of the 2025 season, the Rattlers went 2-2 at the OBU Tournament, defeating #11 TWU 14-12 and #17 Southern Nazarene, 19-3, while falling to #3 Maryville, 16-11 and #4 DBU, 15-7.

•    The Rattlers dropped one spot to #11 in the STUNT Division II poll. 

•    With the addition of two teams to the league, the Lone Star Conference Championship has expanded to a double elimination tournament. It will happen at the site of the regular season champion on March 28-29.

•    The Rattlers have eight first-time opponents on the schedule in 2025. There are two new teams in the Lone Star Conference in rival, St. Edward's and Texas A&M-Kingsville, along with Arizona Christian, Centenary, Central Methodist, Hope International, Purdue Northwest and Vanguard.

•    The Rattlers are coming off their second-straight appearance in the STUNT National Championship. St. Mary's has qualified in each year of the team's existence.

•    A total of 20 STUNT student-athletes were named to the Lone Star Commissioner's Honor Roll after the conclusion of the fall semester.  Kailey Carder recorded a perfect 4.00 GPA during the fall to lead the team.