{"id":463275,"date":"2026-10-11T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463275\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:30:11","slug":"scholar-athlete-of-the-week-esther-royal-priest-cornerstone-christian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463275\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar Athlete of the Week: Esther Royal-Priest, Cornerstone Christian School"},"content":{"rendered":"

KSAT 12 Sports and CHRISTUS Children\u2019s shine a spotlight on a local senior student athlete. <\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Meet KSAT 12\u2019s newest Scholar Athlete of the Week: Esther Royal-Priest of Cornerstone Christian School. <\/p>\n

Esther is a two-year member of the varsity volleyball team. She\u2019s also the team captain of her club volleyball team.<\/p>\n

Esther\u2019s a member of the National Honor Society, the Science National Honor Society, the Spanish National Honor Society and the Math National Honor Society. She also performs community service through Cornerstone Church and through a mission trip to Peru.<\/p>\n

She maintains a 4.1 grade point average and is ranked in the top six percent of her class.<\/p>\n

Esther is committed to playing collegiate volleyball for Colgate University, where she will major in neuroscience. <\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorsDaniel Villanueva headshot\"\"Daniel Villanueva<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel P. Villanueva has been with KSAT 12 since 2003 and is the producer of the station’s sports streaming show KSAT Sports Now. Villanueva is a graduate of St. Mary’s University and is a TAPB and two-time Lone Star Emmy Award winner for sports and news. He is also a Gold Telly Award winner and a Texas Broadcast News Awards recipient.<\/p>\n

Mark Mendez headshot\"\"Mark Mendez<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Mendez is a veteran sports photojournalist who has spent 32 years at KSAT 12 capturing some of the biggest moments in sports and news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KSAT 12 Sports and CHRISTUS Children\u2019s shine a spotlight on a local senior student athlete. SAN ANTONIO \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114562,29245,82,84,83,29246],"class_list":["post-463275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-cornerstone-christian-school","tag-ksat-sports-now","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-scholar-athlete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}