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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Gabel Named To Academic All-MAC Team
April 30, 2003 | Women's Tennis
April 30, 2003
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Bowling Green State University women's tennis senior Alyson Gabel (Toledo, Ohio/St. Ursula Academy) has been named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team, the league office announced Wednesday (April 30). Gabel was the lone Falcon representative to the seven-player team.
The team is the result of voting by the faculty athletic representatives at the 10 MAC member institutions that sponsor women's tennis. To qualify for nomination, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport. First-year students and junior college transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award.
Gabel ended the 2002-03 season with a 13-17 singles record, and she went 5-4 in league play. Gabel, who played primarily at the second flight, tied for the team lead in MAC singles wins.
In doubles action, Gabel teamed with junior Gaby Coello for a 10-14 regular-season mark, including a 4-5 record in league action. The duo's four MAC wins led the Falcons.
Gabel went 4-0 in the final weekend of the regular season as the Falcons took a pair of 6-1 matches against Akron and Buffalo. She also picked up BGSU's lone point with a singles win against Northern Illinois in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Championships. Gabel, a team co-captain, ended her career with a five-match singles winning streak.
The Falcons, picked to finish seventh in the preseason coaches poll, finished fifth in the final MAC regular-season standings. BGSU, with 10 dual-match wins in 2002-03, doubled last season's overall win total.
Last week, Gabel was named the winner of the MAC's Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award, given to the player judged by her conference peers as displaying the most outstanding sportsmanship in MAC competition. The award is named in honor of Leann Grimes Davidge, who served as the women's tennis coach at Miami from 1978 until her tragic death in an automobile accident in January of 1985.
Away from the court, Gabel has a 3.93 cumulative grade point average as a financial economics major.
Gabel is joined on the Academic All-MAC Team by Ball State's Jill Wieman and Alyce Zollman, Eastern Michigan's Lisa D'Amelio and Shari Gamarnik and Marshall's Ashley Kroh and Alice Sukner.
The Falcons ended the 2002-03 season with dual-match records of 10-11 overall and 5-4 in MAC regular-season action. Gabel was the lone senior on the 10-woman BGSU squad.
