Christine Chiricosta Named to All-MAC First Team

Bowling Green State University tennis junior Christine Chiricosta has been named to the 2010 All-Mid-American Conference Team. Chiricosta, a native of Avon Lake, Ohio (Avon Lake H.S.), earned all-conference first-team honors.

Video of the awards announcements & presentation at MAC banquet

The All-MAC Team and conference specialty awards were handed out Thursday night (April 29) at the MAC Championships banquet on the campus of Western Michigan University.

Chiricosta earns first-team accolades after being named to the second team in each of her first two years at BGSU.

This season, Chiricosta has an overall singles record of 22-8 to date, leading the team in wins. She has a 15-6 record in dual matches, having played at the number-one flight in all 21 of BGSU's duals this spring, and went 5-3 in MAC regular-season action.

In doubles, Chiricosta has an overall record of 21-8, including a 16-5 mark in dual-match play. She
has teamed with freshman Maddy Eccleston at the top flight for every dual match, with that duo going 6-2 in MAC matches.

Chiricosta's total of 43 victories this season leads the team and ties her for 10th in BGSU history.

BGSU vs Akron tennis April 23, 2010 - photo by Jason Knavel

Entering the MAC Championships, Chiricosta has a combined career total of 128 wins, with 64 singles and 64 doubles victories. She has moved into 12th place on the BGSU doubles wins list, and is tied for 12th in overall wins and deadlocked for 14th in career singles wins.

Chiricosta was joined on the first team by the Akron duo of Zara Harutyunyan and Angelina Jogasuria, along with Anastasia Dracheva of Miami, Denise Harijanto of Buffalo and Martina Wodzinski of Toledo.

Second-team honors went to Buffalo's Alexsandra Petrova, Miami's Stephanie Danesis and Megan Martzolf, Toledo's Maha Guirguis, Akron's Angelika Jogasuria and Western Michigan's Emily Dudzik.

In addition to picking up one first-team and two second-team selections, regular-season champion Miami saw first-year coach Ricardo Rosas receive the 2010 MAC Coach of the Year award. Rosas led the RedHawks to an 8-0 conference record, and MU is 15-6 overall.

Akron, 18-2 overall, finished second in the MAC with a 7-1 conference record. The Zips' two first-team and one second-team selections included the Player- and Freshman-of-the-Year award winners. Harutyunyan, a sophomore, was honored as the MAC P-O-Y for the second consecutive season, while Angelina Jogasuria was the F-O-Y. Harutyunyan compiled a 8-0 conference record for the Zips at No. 1 singles, and had a No. 1 doubles mark of 6-2 in league play. Overall, she is 34-5 in singles and 24-8 in doubles.

Angelina Jogasuria also garnered an 8-0 conference record, at the second singles flight. She is 29-6 overall in singles and 29-7 overall in doubles.

Ball State's Hayley Hall received the Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award. The award, the result of voting by MAC women's tennis student-athletes, is presented to the player who has displayed outstanding sportsmanship in MAC competition. Hall, a junior from Muncie, Ind., played at No. 1 singles and No. 3 doubles for the Cardinals.

The other awards all were the result of voting by the conference's nine head coaches.

The Falcons of head coach Penny Dean, the seventh seed for the MAC Championships, will face second-seeded UA in Friday's (April 30) quarterfinal round. That match is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. at WMU's Sorensen Courts.

The complete list of All-MAC Team and specialty-award winners follows.

2010 ALL-MAC FIRST TEAM
Zara Harutyunyan, Akron (Sophomore; Yerevan, Armenia)
Anastasia Dracheva, Miami (Junior; Moscow, Russia)
Denise Harijanto, Buffalo (Senior; Jakarta, Indonesia)
Angelina Jogasuria, Akron (Freshman; Serpong, Indonesia)
Christine Chiricosta, Bowling Green (Junior; Avon Lake, Ohio)
Martina Wodzinski, Toledo (Senior; Wayne, Ill.)

2010 ALL-MAC SECOND TEAM
Alexsandra Petrova, Buffalo (Sophomore; Sofia, Bulgaria)
Stephanie Danesis, Miami (Sophomore; Akron, Ohio)
Megan Martzolf, Miami (Junior; Indianapolis, Ind.)
Maha Guirguis, Toledo (Senior; Cairo, Egypt)
Angelika Jogasuria, Akron (Freshman; Serpong, Indonesia)
Emily Dudzik, Western Michigan (Senior; Gowen, Mich.)

2010 MAC SPECIALTY AWARDS
COACH OF THE YEAR: Ricardo Rosas, Miami
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Angelina Jogasuria, Akron
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Zara Harutyunyan, Akron
LEANN GRIMES DAVIDGE SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD: Hayley Hall, Ball State

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