Mid-American Conference

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES WOMEN’S TENNIS ACADEMIC ALL-MAC TEAM
 
Cleveland, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced the 2017 Women’s Tennis Academic All-MAC Team with 35 students named to the honor. 
 
Heading this year’s list is three-time Academic All-MAC selection senior Toni Ormond of Ball State, Andreea Badileanu of Miami and Tracy Kuhle of Western Michigan.
 
Fourteen two-time Academic All-MAC selections include junior’s Ariadna Blinova, Sophia Geier and Carli Knezevich of Akron, junior Emily Witt of Bowling Green, junior’s Andrea Martinovska, Renu Sharma and Anna Veleva of Eastern Michigan, junior’s Nelli Ponomareva and Anastasiia Vasiukhina of Miami, junior’s Abigail Dekkinga and Evelyn Youel of Northern Illinois, junior’s Sidnay Huck and Colleen O’Brien of Toledo and junior Olivia Myers of Western Michigan.
 
First-time selections include Akron’s Luisa Echeverry, Ball State’s Audrey Berger, Carmen Blanco and Isabelle Dohanics,  Bowling Green’s Polina Radeva, Buffalo’s Chantal Martinez Blanco, Sanjana Sudhir and Mercedes Losada Rubio, Eastern Michigan’s Alejandra Barcelo Almoyna and Marie Mayerova, Miami’s Anzhelika Shapovalova, Hannah Shteyn and Emily Struble, Toledo’s Claire Aleck and Rani Goodland and Western Michigan’s Denise Azcui, Katja Fevralev and Melina Lyubomirova.
 
Nominees must have a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average to be eligible for the team.
 
2017 Women’s Tennis Academic All-MAC Team (35):
*Ariadna Blinova, Akron, Junior, 3.382 GPA, Civil Engineering, Riga, Latvia
Luisa Echeverry, Akron, Sophomore, 3.669 GPA, Mechanical Engineering, Cali, Columbia
*Sophia Geier, Akron, Junior, 3.898 GPA, Sport Management, Burgebrach, Germany
*Carli Knezevich, Akron, Junior, 3.533 GPA, Sport Management, Austin, Texas
Audrey Berger, Ball State, Sophomore, 3.375 GPA, Business Administration, Upper Arlington, OH
Carmen Blanco, Ball State, Senior, 3.923 GPA, Accounting, Caracas, Venezuela
Isabelle Dohanics, Ball State, Sophomore, 3.413 GPA, Biology, Cranberry Township, PA
*^Toni Ormond, Ball State, Senior, 3.961 GPA, Teaching – Foreign Language, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Polina Radeva, Bowling Green, Sophomore, 3.604 GPA, Psychology, Varna, Bulgaria
*Emily Witt, Bowling Green, Junior, 3.321 GPA, Biology, Grafton, Ohio
Chantal Martinez Blanco, Buffalo, Sophomore, 3.697 GPA, Economics, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sanjana Sudhir, Buffalo, Sophomore, 3.696 GPA, Economics, Thrissur, India
Mercedes Losada Rubio, Buffalo, Sophomore, 3.601 GPA, Management, Granada, Spain
Alejandra Barcelo Almoyna, Eastern Michigan, Junior, 3.42 GPA, Entrepreneurship, Alicante, Spain
*Andrea Martinovska, Eastern Michigan, Junior, 3.70 GPA, International Affairs, Plzn, Czech Republic
Marie Mayerova, Eastern Michigan, Sophomore, 3.34 GPA, Criminology, Krmlin, Czech Republic
*Renu Sharma, Eastern Michigan, Junior, 3.37 GPA, Management, Fardabad, India
*Anna Veleva, Eastern Michigan, Junior, 3.79 GPA, Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria
*^Andreea Badileanu, Miami, Senior, 3.59 GPA, Bioengineering, Bucharest, Romania
*Nelli Ponomareva, Miami, Junior, 3.20 GPA, Interactive Media Studies, Krasnodar, Russia
Anzhelika Shapovalova, Miami, Sophomore, 3.58 GPA, Strategic Communication, Moscow, Russia
Hannah Shteyn, Miami, Junior, 3.27 GPA, Public Health, Staten Island, N.Y.
Emily Stuble, Miami, Sophomore, 3.96 GPA, Speech Pathology & Audiology, Holt, Mich.
*Anastasiia Vasiukhina, Miami, Junior, 3.84 GPA, Bioengineering, Moscow, Russia
*Abigail Dekkinga, Northern Illinois, Junior, 3.70 GPA, Communications, Alegan, MI
*Evelyn Youel, Northern Illinois, Junior, 3.83 GPA, Mathematics Education, Crystal Lake, IL
Claire Aleck, Toledo, Sophomore, 3.904 GPA, Exercise Science, Ada, MI
Rani Goodland, Toledo, Sophomore, 3.695 GPA, Business, Melbourne, Australia
*Sidnay Huck, Toledo, Junior, 3.555 GPA, Early Childhood Education, Fort Wayne, IN
*Colleen O’Brien, Toledo, Junior, 3.467 GPA, Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
Denise Azcui, Western Michigan, Sophomore, 3.95 GPA, Pre-Industrial & Entrepreneurial Engineering, Bloomington, IN
Katja Fevralev, Western Michigan, Sophomore, 3.47 GPA, Fashion Merchandising & Design, Bielefeld, Germany
*^Tracy Kuhle, Western Michigan, Senior, 3.97 GPA, Marketing, Decatur, IL
Melina Lyubomirova, Western Michigan, Sophomore, 3.78 GPA, Pre-Business, Sofia, Bulgaria
*Olivia Myers, Western Michigan, Junior, 3.51 GPA, Exercise Science, Belmont, OH
 
*2016 Academic All-MAC Team
^2015 Academic All-MAC Team