NORMAL, Ill. – It was a complete sweep of the weekly Midwest Independent Conference honors on Wednesday for Illinois State, as freshman Alana Laster was honored as the league's Newcomer of the Week and with its Performance of the Week award and junior Angelica Labat was voted the Gymnast of the Week once again.
The weekly honors are the first for Laster in her young career at Illinois State and the newcomer of the week award is the second for a Redbird gymnast this season. The gymnast of the week honor for Labat is her third of the season and second in as many weeks and is her ninth overall in her ISU career.