Harman Garners All-BIG EAST Laurels
4/23/2009 5:37:13 PM | Tennis
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Freshman Emily Harman was named to the All-BIG EAST Women's Tennis Team as released by the conference on Thursday afternoon. Harman was one of 14 women named to the list, marking Syracuse's first individual BIG EAST award since Olga Votavova and Maria Vasiyeva were honored in 2007. In 2005, Victoria Vaynberg and Catherine Zawadzki were named to the all-tournament team as singles players at the BIG EAST Championship.
Harman, a native of Petersburg, W.Va., defended SU's No. 1 singles position with a 12-8 record, finishing 14-8, overall, in solo action. The first-year phenom teamed with sophomore Christina Tan for a club-best 17-6 mark at the top doubles position, as well.
SU's No. 1 singles player started off the season with a five-match winning streak and followed it up with a seven-match winning spell to close out the regular season. In a combined singles and doubles effort, Harman concluded her first run in the BIG EAST with an 18-9 league record.
At the BIG EAST Tournament, Harman and Tan won their first doubles match against West Virginia's Ashley Pilsbury and Gabriela Blaskovicov, 8-4.
The Syracuse tennis team concluded one of its most successful season's in program history with a 4-2 loss to fourth-seeded Marquette in the consolation bracket of the BIG EAST Tournament. Syracuse finished in a tie for seventh place with ninth-seeded Pittsburgh.
The Orange close the 2009 BIG EAST campaign with a 10-4 record. Syracuse's 16-7 mark (.696) represented the best winning percentage since the 1999-2000 team's record of 16-6 (.727). Head coach Luke Jensen is now 38-30 (.559) through three seasons at Syracuse.
Harman joined DePaul's Dunja Antunovic, Katarina Milinkovic, Anna Redecsi and Selma Salkovic, Notre Dame's Cosmina Ciobanu, Kristy Frilling, Kali Krisik, Shannon Mathews and Kelcy Tefft, Rutgers' Amy Zhang, USF's Irene Rehberger, Louisville's Bianca Gorbea and Pittsburgh's Elizabeth Adams on the All-BIG EAST Women's Tennis Team.
Below is a complete list of the 2008-09 BIG EAST Award Winners:
BIG EAST Men's Tennis Player of the Year
Austen Childs, Louisville, So.
BIG EAST Women's Tennis Player of the Year
Kelcy Tefft, Notre Dame, Sr.
BIG EAST Men's Tennis Freshman of the Year
Wael Kilani, USF, Fr.
BIG EAST Women's Tennis Freshman of the Year
Kristy Frilling, Notre Dame, Fr.
BIG EAST Men's Tennis Coach of the Year
Don Barr, USF
BIG EAST Women's Tennis Coach of the Year
Mark Ardizzone, DePaul
All-BIG EAST Men's Tennis Team
*Jose Moncada, DePaul, Sr.
*Austen Childs, Louisville, So.
Simon Childs, Louisville, So.
Viktor Maksimcuk, Louisville, So.
Trent Hagan, Marquette, Sr.
Dusan Medan, Marquette, Jr.
*Brett Helgeson, Notre Dame, Sr.
Casey Watt, Notre Dame, Fr.
Milo Hauk, St. John's, Fr.
*Lucas Jovita, USF, So.
*Wael Kilani, USF, Fr.
Mahmoud Hamed, USF, Sr.
^All-BIG EAST Women's Tennis Team
Dunja Antunovic, DePaul, Sr.
Anna Redecsi, DePaul, Jr.
Selma Salkovic, DePaul, So.
Cosmina Ciobanu, Notre Dame, Jr.
*Kristy Frilling, Notre Dame, Fr.
Shannon Mathews, Notre Dame, Fr.
*Kelcy Tefft, Notre Dame, Sr.
Amy Zhang, Rutgers, So.
Irene Rehberger, USF, So.
Bianca Gorbea, Louisville, Sr.
Katarina Milinkovic, DePaul, So.
Emily Harman, Syracuse, Fr.
Kali Krisik, Notre Dame, Jr.
Elizabeth Adams, Pittsburgh, So.
* - Unanimous Selection
^ - All-BIG EAST Women's Tennis Team contains two extra players due to a tie in voting.
