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Athlete of the Month: Jestena Mattson

The Collegian sports staff has selected Jestena Mattson as its Athlete of the Month for February.

Mattson showed off at the Mountain West Championships breaking her own school record by scoring 4,082 points, fifth-best in conference history, in the pentathlon to capture her second MW pentathlon gold medal of her career.

The senior was able to tie her personal best in high jump (1.70m) and set a new personal best in the shot put with a distance of (12.81).

The victory in the pentathlon earned Mattson a spot on the 2018-19 MW Indoor Track and Field All-Conference team, along with teammates Varvara Klyuchnikova and Maja Pogorevc.