University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Amryn Soldier Selected to Big South All-Academic Team
04.14.2015 | Women's Tennis
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Big South Conference announced its annual women's tennis award winners on Tuesday evening, with UNC Asheville's Amryn Soldier claiming a spot on the league's All-Academic team.
Soldier, a senior from Atlanta, Ga., is an Art major who boasts a 3.712 GPA and recently had several of her creative pieces feature in the 2014 issue of Sanctuary, the art and literary journal of the Southern Regional Honors Council. She had three of her photographs and two literary pieces published in the journal, and another photo featured on the front cover.
On the court, Soldier has compiled an 8-4 record overall in doubles play, playing primarily at the third flight. In singles play, she has accumulated a 5-7 mark.
Charleston Southern's Marketa Placha (Czech Republic) was voted the Big South Conference Women's Tennis Player of the Year, while Coastal Carolina's Catherine Hewitt was tabbed the League's Coach of the Year by the conference's head coaches. Winthrop's Marina Humberg (Sao Paulo, Brazil) was selected Freshman of the Year, while the league's sports information directors voted Liberty's Brittany Yang (Newnan, Ga.) and Radford's Taylor Newman (Bethesda, Md.) as the Big South Women's Tennis Co-Scholar-Athletes of the Year.
Also announced today were the Women's Flight Winners, the All-Conference Singles and Doubles Award winners and the All-Academic team. The Bulldogs will begin play in the Big South Tennis Championship on Thursday afternoon as the No. 6 seed, squaring off with No. 3 seeded Winthrop at 3:00 p.m.
2015 BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE WOMEN'S TENNIS ALL-CONFERENCE AND AWARD WINNERS
Women's Tennis Flight Winners
No. 1 singles – Libby Scott, Coastal Carolina
No. 2 singles – Yvonne Hubler, Charleston Southern
No. 3 singles – Mariana Humber, Winthrop
No. 4 singles – Mi'Kola Cooper, Charleston Southern
No. 5 singles – Monica Aguado, Winthrop
No. 6 singles – Valeria Koussenkova, Charleston Southern
No. 1 doubles – Maria Khval and Brittany Yang, Liberty
No. 2 doubles – Ekin Gunaysu and Tijana Uzelac, Winthrop
No. 3 doubles - Sophie Cloessner and Marketa Placha, Charleston Southern
All-Conference Singles
Marketa Placha, Charleston Southern
Libby Scott, Coastal Carolina
Yvonne Hubler, Charleston Southern
Alice Garcia, Winthrop
Maria Khval, Liberty
Mariana Humberg, Winthrop
Honami Yazawa, Coastal Carolina
Ekin Gunaysu, Winthrop
All-Conference Doubles
Angelica Sidorenko and Mi'Kola Cooper, Charleston Southern
Alice Garcia and Mariana Humberg, Winthrop
Brittany Yang and Maria Khval, Liberty
Yvonne Hubler and Nicolin Luecke, Charleston Southern
All-Academic Team
Claudia Ortiz, Campbell
Yvonne Hubler, Charleston Southern
Marie Babyan, Coastal Carolina
Rokia Saco, Gardner-Webb
Brittany Yang, Liberty
Malin Allgurin, Longwood
Caroline deLoach, Presbyterian
Taylor Newman, Radford
Amryn Soldier, UNC Asheville
Ekin Gunaysu, Winthrop
Player of the Year
Marketa Placha, Charleston Southern
Freshman of the Year
Marina Humberg, Winthrop
Co-Scholar-Athletes of the Year
Brittany Yang, Liberty
Taylor Newman, Radford
Coach of the Year
Catherine Hewitt, Coastal Carolina
