University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Altick Earns First-Career Pac-12 POTW Honor
April 23, 2019 | Women's Tennis
SAN FRANCISCO – UCLA women's tennis sophomore Abi Altick was named Pac-12 Player of the Week for the week of April 15-21, the conference announced Tuesday. The honor marks the first of her career.
Altick continued to shine in clutch situations, defeating Danielle Willson in a second-set tiebreaker to clinch UCLA's 4-2 win at No. 15 USC's Marks Tennis Stadium on Saturday, April 20. Altick, in fact, claimed both sets via tiebreaker and identical 7-4 scores. The deciding win represents her team-high fifth of the season and the team victory locked up the Pac-12's No. 2 spot for the Bruins.
UCLA will face Utah or Arizona in Thursday's third Pac-12 Championships quarterfinal-round match at Weil Tennis Academy in Ojai, Calif. First serve is scheduled for 3 p.m.
The Monroe, La. native also stood out in doubles play, teaming with Alaina Miller to defeat 90th-ranked Constance Branstine and Estella Jaeger by a 6-2 score. The match ended simultaneously with the Bruins' No. 1 pair of Elysia Bolton and Jada Hart, which was credited with the clinching win.
UCLA women's tennis has collected 25 of the conference's weekly awards all time. Altick is the third Bruin to receive the award this season, tying Stanford for the conference-best mark. UCLA's Keegan Smith earned the men's award Tuesday, marking the eighth time that Bruins have swept the honors and second this year (April 2 – Maxime Cressy, Jada Hart).
ALSO NOMINATED: Anna Bright, CALIFORNIA; Emily Dush, UTAH; Stacey Fung, WASHINGTON.
2018-19 PAC-12 WOMEN'S TENNIS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
| Week of | Women's POTW |
| Jan. 22 | Stacey Fung, Washington |
| Jan. 28 | Angela Kulikov, USC |
| Feb. 5 | Elysia Bolton, UCLA |
| Feb. 12 | Emily Arbuthnott, Stanford |
| Feb. 19 | Julia Rosenqvist, California |
| Feb. 26 | Melissa Lord, Stanford |
| March 5 | Angela Kulikov, USC |
| March 12 | Lauryn John-Baptiste, Arizona State |
| March 19 | Julia Rosenqvist, California |
| March 26 | Monica Malinen, Colorado |
| April 2 | Jada Hart, UCLA |
| April 9 | Melissa Lord, Stanford |
| April 16 | Michaela Bayerlova, Washington State |
| April 23 | Abi Altick, UCLA |
