{"id":471353,"date":"2026-10-20T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471353\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:08:15","slug":"scholar-athlete-of-the-week-emma-rodriguez-incarnate-word-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471353\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar Athlete of the Week: Emma Rodriguez, Incarnate Word High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KSAT 12 Sports and CHRISTUS Children\u2019s shine a spotlight on a local senior student athlete<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Meet KSAT 12\u2019s newest Scholar Athlete of the Week: Emma Rodriguez of Incarnate Word High School. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Rodriguez is a four-year member of the varsity swim team and three-year member of the varsity volleyball team. She also plays club volleyball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">She was named Second-Team All-District in TAPPS in 2025 and TAPPS Academic All-State in 2026. Rodriguez is the vice president of the Fuel the Fire Club, a member of the National Honor Society, the National Science Honor Society and is a student ambassador. She\u2019s also part of the College Board National Recognition Program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Rodriguez maintains a 4.0 grade point average and is ranked in the top 10% of her class. Rodriguez plans to attend college and major in political science. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorsDaniel Villanueva headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792480094_614_af1d15b9-c3ab-4083-a1da-798593498d35.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/Daniel Villanueva\/\" title=\"View Daniel Villanueva&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Villanueva<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Daniel P. Villanueva has been with KSAT 12 since 2003 and is the producer of the station&#8217;s sports streaming show KSAT Sports Now. Villanueva is a graduate of St. Mary&#8217;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<p>Mark Mendez headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792480095_750_3d502b63-0294-41de-85fb-5129841938b0.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/PH6NVQKP7RFJDMRRSA57G5KZFE\/\" title=\"View Mark Mendez&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Mendez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[159880,29245,82,84,83,29246],"class_list":["post-471353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-incarnate-word-high-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\/471353","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=471353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}