Four Bruins Earn All-Pac-12 Honors
June 07, 2016 | Men's Tennis
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. โ The Pac-12 Conference announced Tuesday the men's tennis All-Pac-12 honors for the 2016 season, as determined by a polling of the Conference coaches. ย UCLA's Mackenzie McDonald was voted Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year for the second-straight year.ย McDonald and his teammate Martin Redlicki were tabbed the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year.ย
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โ Pac-12 Conference (@pac12) June 7, 2016
Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year โ Mackenzie McDonald, UCLA
For the second-straight year, McDonald has been named the Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year. ย The junior won UCLA's 12th and the Pac-12's 45th all-time NCAA Singles Championship. ย As the No. 6 seed overall, McDonald defeated No. 1 seed Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State in the final. ย McDonald also led the way for his team to sweep the Pac-12 regular season and tournament titles, posting a 22-1 record on the year. ย He was a four-time Pac-12 Player of the Week during the season. ย UCLA has now claimed 11 Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year honors dating back to 1976.ย
Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year โ Mackenzie McDonald and Martin Redlicki, UCLA
McDonald and Redlicki are the sixth UCLA duo to claim the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year accolades dating back to the award's inception in 2000 and the first since 2007. ย The duo won UCLA's 11th and the Pac-12's 57th all-time NCAA doubles title (the first for UCLA since 1996). ย This is the first time in 45 years that UCLA has won both the NCAA singles and doubles titles in the same year, a feat that has only happened five times before in school history. ย The Bruin duo finished the season with an 18-6 overall record and a 10-5 mark against ranked opponents.
ALL-PAC-12ย ย ย
| FIRST TEAMย ย | ||
| Name | Year | School |
| Max de Vroome | SR | USC |
| Tom Fawcett | SO | Stanford |
| Andre Goransson | JR | California |
| Florian Lakatย | JR | California |
| Mackenzie McDonald | JR | UCLA |
| Martin Redlicki | SO | UCLA |
| SECOND TEAM | ||
| Name | Year | School |
| Filip Bergevi | JR | California |
| Gage Brymerย | JR | UCLA |
| Nick Crystal | JR | USC |
| Billy Griffith ย | SO | California |
| Daan Maasland ย | SR | Oregon |
| Karue Sell | SR | UCLA |
| Mitch Stewartย | SO | Washington |
| David Wilczynskiย | SO | Stanford |
| Honorable Mention:ย ย Naoki Takeda ( Sr., ARIZ); Thomas Laurent (Fr., ORE); Maciek Romanowicz (Sr., STAN), Jake DeVine (Fr., USC); Thibault Forget (So., USC); Logan Smith (Fr., USC); Matt Cowley (Sr., UTAH); David Micevski (Fr., UTAH). |
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