By: Scott Eddy, Assistant Athletics Director for Strategic Communications
The GoBonnies.com Student-Athletes of the Week presented by CPL for the week ending Feb. 22 are women's swimming junior Anna Bojana Forjan and women's diving sophomore Dhavgely Mendoza.
Bojana Forjan posted one of the top individual performances in Bonnies women's swimming program history as she registered three medals – two gold and one silver – and now owns four program records following Atlantic 10 Championship Weekend.
The native of Hungary was crowned Atlantic 10 Champion in both the 100-backstroke and 200-freestyle. In the 200-free, she registered a program-best time of 1:48.75 to win gold and then took a second gold medal with another Bonnies record mark of 53.92 in the 100-back.
Bojana Forjan broke her own school record in the 100-back which had stood for two years. She becomes the first A-10 women's 100-back champion since Paige Crimmin in 2003.Â
In the 200-free, she surpassed the existing Bonnies school record of 1:49.63 posted in 2016 by Tanja Kirmse. Taryn Ahern was Bona's last women's 200-free A-10 champion in 2006.Â
Bojana Forjan set a new program record in the 200-back (1:55.67) as well.
Mendoza also re-wrote the program record books as she captured two gold medals to join elite Bonnies history.
The native of Venezuela became just the third women's diver in St. Bonaventure history to be crowned the Atlantic 10 Most Outstanding Diver.
She earned gold in both the 1-meter and 3-meter dives – in the 3-meter competition on Thursday, her score of 315.60 placed her above the competition with Bona's first 3-meter medal since 2022. In the 1-meter on Saturday, she captured the conference title with a score of 303.10.
Mendoza joins SBU Hall of Famer Barbara Vassallo who earned the distinction in 1993 and Maureen Theis in 2004 as the only Bonnies to earn A-10 Women's Most Outstanding Diver honors. Her award will be nicely paired with coach Alejandra Fuentes who was named the Women's Diving Coach of the Year, becoming the first for the Bonnies since Allison Manion in 2004.