Colato, Tourville named March's top student-athletes

Grand Canyon student-athletes have their sights set on more than just winning on the competition field. With the help of the Academic and Student-Athlete Development staff, the Lopes are looking to provide leadership in the classroom and the community in addition to their roles on their respective teams.

Each month, GCULopes.com features two Lopes excelling in all three of these phases. Congratulations to the honorees for March: sophomores Juan Colato and Savannah Tourville.

Juan Colato Baseball Redshirt Sophomore \|\| San Salvador, El Salvador	Savannah Tourville Softball Sophomore \|\| Whittier, Calif.

In the classroom Current overall GPA: 3.49 Major: B.S. in Engineering	In the classroom Current overall GPA: 3.78, projected 4.00 GPA in Behavioral Health Major: B.S. in Behavioral Health
In the community Colato volunteered at St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix. The baseball team raised more than $2,000 before Thanksgiving for the St. Mary's turkey drive, which received donation matches from three corporations. He also has participated in other volunteering events with the GCU baseball team.	In the community Tourville is active in the community with volunteering at Fellowship of Christian Athletes summer camp, Set the Expectation Games, UMOM and Winter Wonderland. She is also very involved with Kennedy Headlee, who GCU ceremonially signed last year at age 5 through Team IMPACT. Tourville visited Headlee, who has Cystic Fibrosis, at the hospital, at her birthday party and even took her for ice cream.
On the field Colato led this year's Lopes team in batting average (.367), slugging percentage (.620), on-base percentage (.419), OPS (1.039), hits (29), home runs (five), doubles (five), RBIs (14, tied with Drew Smith) and stolen bases (six).	On the field Tourville was named WAC Hitter of the Week after an impressive March 11 in games against Lehigh and South Dakota. She went 5 for 6 on the day with five RBIs. For the season, Tourville shared the team lead in doubles (five) and was second for RBIs (14.)

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Players Mentioned

Juan Colato

Drew Smith

Savannah Tourville

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