SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - Junior Kayla Martinez Cartagena of the women's volleyball team and sophomore Troy Luley of the men's swimming & diving team have been named the Highmark Student-Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sunday, October 11.

Martinez Cartagena averaged four kills per set and hit .318 in leading Union to a 3-0 week, including a pair of conference victories. The junior started the week by hitting .500 in a three-set win over SUNY Delhi, putting down 12 kills on 20 attempts, including an impressive 11 kills in just the first two sets. She led the team with 14 kills in a 3-1 conference victory over Skidmore on Friday night, hitting .265 and adding two assists, seven digs and a block. She needed only three sets to record 14 kills the next day in a sweep of Clarkson, again hitting .265 to go with three digs, one assist and an ace. The junior recorded 17 of her 40 kills in the first set of the three matches, helping the Garnet Chargers start out strong on the way to the three victories.

Luley shined in Union's season-opening tri-meet with Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Saturday, winning the 50 breaststroke by almost a second in 27.98 and triumphing in the 100 breaststroke by more than two seconds with a time of 1:01.29. He also swam the breaststroke on Union's second-place 200 medley relay and was part of the 400 freestyle relay that placed third.