Bowling Green State University Athletics
Ashley Jakupcin Named to All-MAC First Team
April 26, 2007 | Women's Tennis
April 26, 2007
TOLEDO, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - Bowling Green State University senior Ashley Jakupcin has been named to the 2007 All-Mid-American Conference Women's Tennis Team. The Falcon standout, who earns all-league honors for the third consecutive season, has been selected to the first team for the first time in her stellar BGSU career.
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Download Free Acrobat ReaderThe all-conference team and specialty-award winners were announced Thursday night (April 26) at the MAC Championships Banquet, held at the Hilton Toledo.
Jakupcin, a native of Dublin, Ohio (Bishop Watterson HS), becomes the first Falcon in two years -- and just the second BGSU tennis standout in the last decade -- to be named to the All-MAC First Team. Susie Schoenberger was named to the first team in the 2004-05 season, while Deidee Bissinger and Cindy Mikolajewski each earned the honor in the 1996-97 campaign.
Jakupcin earns the first-team honor this season after being chosen to the All-MAC Second Team as both a sophomore and a junior. She has played at the number-one singles flight in all but one of the Falcons' 20 dual matches this season to date, going 10-9. Her 16-14 singles record for the season includes a 5-3 mark -- all at the top flight -- in MAC play. A team tri-captain, she has played primarily at the third doubles flight, and has a total of 27 combined wins this season.
Jakupcin has a doubles mark of 11-10 this year to date, and teamed with freshman Samantha Kintzel for a 5-1 record in MAC play. The total of five MAC wins is the highest in a season for a BGSU doubles team since 2000-01, and the Jakupcin/Kintzel duo's winning percentage (.833) is the highest in MAC doubles play in a quarter-century (since the 1981-82 season). Regardless of her partner, Jakupcin has won eight of her last nine doubles matches.
With 76 career singles wins (an overall record of 76-48), Jakupcin is tied for third in BGSU history, just three victories shy of matching the school record. She has 54 career doubles wins to tie for 12th on that list, and her total of 130 combined career wins ranks her eighth on that BGSU chart.
Jakupcin was joined on the first team by Eastern Michigan's Vanessa Frankowski, the league's Player of the Year, along with Western Michigan's Carrie Jeanmaire and Kerstin Pahl, Buffalo's Miglena Nenova and Toledo's Myriam Cueva.
The second team was comprised of UB's Denise Harijanto and Andreea Novaceanu, EMU's Yana Parfenyuk, UT's Martina Wodzinski, WMU's Priyanka Parekh and Ball State's Sophie Quist.
WMU's Betsy Kuhle was named the MAC Coach of the Year, while Frankowski, as mentioned, was the Player of the Year. Wodzinski earned Freshman-of-the-Year honors, while Katrin Fischer of UB picked up the Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award. Voted on by the student-athletes, the latter award is presented to the player who has displayed outstanding sportsmanship in MAC competition. The other specialty awards are the results of voting by the league's nine head coaches.
The Falcons of head coach Penny Dean, 12-8 overall, are the fourth seed for the MAC Championships. BGSU will face fifth-seeded Miami in Friday's (April 27) quarterfinal round, with the match schedule to begin at 10:00 a.m. at Ottawa Park in Toledo. In the event of inclement weather, matches will be moved indoors to Laurel Hill Swim & Tennis Club, also in the Glass City.
2007 ALL-MAC TEAM
First Team
Name, School (Class, Hometown)
Ashley Jakupcin, Bowling Green (Sr.; Dublin, Ohio)
Miglena Nenova, Buffalo (Sr.; Rousse, Bulgaria)
Vanessa Frankowski, Eastern Michigan (Jr.; Stuttgart, Germany)
Myriam Cueva, Toledo (Sr.; Quito, Ecuador)
Carrie Jeanmaire, Western Michigan (Sr.; Belvidere, Ill.)
Kerstin Pahl, Western Michigan (So.; Kiel, Germany)
Second Team
Sophie Quist, Ball State (Fr.; Ascham, Australia)
Denise Harijanto, Buffalo (Fr.; Jakarta, Indonesia)
Andreea Novaceanu, Buffalo (Jr.; Bucharest, Romania)
Yana Parfenyuk, Eastern Michigan (Sr.; Ominsk, Russia)
Martina Wodzinski, Toledo (Fr.; Wayne, Ill.)
Priyanka Parekh, Western Michigan (Jr.; Calcutta, India)
Individual Award Winners
Player of the Year: Vanessa Frankowski, Eastern Michigan
Coach of the Year: Betsy Kuhle, Western Michigan
Freshman of the Year: Martina Wodzinski, Toledo
Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award: Katrin Fischer, Buffalo
