LANGLEY, B.C. – For the sixth time in the 2025-26 season, Yemane Mulugeta is the Spartans Male Athlete of the Week, presented by West Coast Toyota. 
 
Mulugeta won a bronze medal at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the 5000m with a time of 14:20.26 to earn the Spartans first-ever medal at the national outdoor championships. 
 
As a second-year student-athlete, Mulugeta finished his 2025-26 academic year, which included cross country and both indoor and outdoor track and field seasons, with three Cascade Conference Championship gold medals, including gold in cross country and gold in the 1500m and 5000m outdoors, and two NAIA bronze medals, as he added to his third-place finish at the national cross country championships with his bronze this past week. This year, Mulugeta also set TWU records in the 1500m, 3000m (indoors) and the 5000m. 
 
Sheleena Wiley is the Spartans Female Athlete of the Week, presented by West Coast Toyota, as she earned All-American honours with a seventh-place finish in long jump at the NAIA championships. Wiley jumped 5.79m.
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby and women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 15 U SPORTS team championships and 35 Canada West team championships.
 
About Trinity Western University
Recognized for quality, TWU has received seven consecutive A+ rankings for Quality of Teaching and Learning, holds three Canada Research Chairs, and wins national championships in CIS sports. More importantly, lives are changed at TWU through its whole-person, Christ-centred approach to education. With a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree-completion programs, TWU equips leaders of character and competence to make a positive impact in the lives of others.  
 
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