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By: Ana Kieu

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose State honored three student-athletes for the month of May on Tuesday morning. Those student-athletes were women’s track and field’s Destiny Longmire and baseball’s Andrew Mitchel and Shane Timmons. The Spartan Foundation Student-Athletes of the Month were presented by O’Connor Hospital.

Longmire became the first San Jose State women’s track and field athlete to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with her sixth place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships West Preliminary Round meet. She won the women’s long jump at 2018 Mountain West Championship and became the second athlete in conference history to win the women’s outdoor long jump championship as a freshman and a sophomore. She’s the sixth athlete in MW history to win the women’s outdoor long jump championship twice in her college career. She also ran the anchor leg on the Spartans’ school record-setting 4×400 relay team at the MW Championship that finished seventh and added to San Jose State’s best point total (55) in its five-year conference meet history.

Mitchel recorded a 1.71 ERA in 26.1 innings pitched. In his last four starts, he faced three of the top-10 hitting teams in the nation and allowed five earned runs the entire month with 29 strikeouts. At the MW Tournament against San Diego State, he struck out nine batters and held the Aztecs to two earned runs to earn a spot on the 2018 MW All-Tournament Team.

In Game 2 against Air Force on senior weekend, Timmons recorded the game-winning hit to punch the Spartans’ ticket to the MW Tournament, and clinch third place in the Mountain West for the program’s highest finish since San Jose State joined the conference in 2013. He was responsible for all six of San Jose State’s runs on May 18th. In the bottom of the third, he hit a grand slam to left field for the 26th career home run to take a 4-0 lead. He broke John Fagan’s career record of 25, which was set nearly 20 years ago, to become San Jose State’s all-time home runs leader with 26. He batted .365 in 14 starts and recorded a .538 slugging percentage in May.