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Maddy Eccleston (left) and Christine Chiricosta have been named to the Academic All-MAC Team (Doug Sampson photo)
Chiricosta, Eccleston Named to Academic All-MAC Team
May 31, 2011 | Women's Tennis
A pair of Bowling Green State University tennis standouts have been named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team. Senior Christine Chiricosta and sophomore Maddy Eccleston were voted to the team, which was announced Tuesday afternoon (May 31) by the league office.
Chiricosta was selected to the team for the third consecutive season, while Eccleston earned the honor in her first year of eligibility for the award. The Academic All-MAC Team is the result of voting by the league's Faculty Athletics Representatives.
Chiricosta, a native of Avon Lake, Ohio (Avon Lake HS), is quite possibly the most decorated player in BGSU tennis history. She finished her career holding all three school records for wins. Chiricosta had a total of 178 combined career victories, with 89 singles and 89 doubles wins. In the 2010-11 campaign, she was named to the All-Mid-American Conference First Team for the second-straight season, after earning all-conference second-team honors in each of her first two years at BGSU.
In the 2010-11 campaign, Chiricosta had an overall mark of 50-20, having played at the number-one flight in both singles and doubles. That 50-win total tied her for fifth place on the BGSU single-season wins list. The team co-captain had identical marks of 25-10 in both singles and doubles on the season. Her singles win total was fifth on the BG single-season list, and the doubles win total deadlocked her for fifth on that school chart.
Chiricosta has amassed a veritable plethora of hardware off the court as well as on. Earlier this spring, she earned the BGSU Department of Athletics Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor is the highest award given by the athletics department, and is given to one male and one female who encompass everything that a BGSU student-athlete should be. One year earlier, she had been named BGSU's Junior Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
On the court, in addition to earning All-MAC First-Team honors, Chiricosta shared the conference's Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award. That award, which is the result of voting by the MAC women's tennis student-athletes, is presented to the player or players who displayed outstanding sportsmanship in MAC competition. Chiricosta was named the MAC's Scholar-Athlete of the Week twice in her senior year and five times in her Falcon career.
In the classroom, Chiricosta maintained a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade-point average as an adolescent/young adult/secondary education major.
Eccleston, a native of Toledo, Ohio (St. Ursula Acad.), won two-thirds of her matches, going 46-23 this season. Her win total tied her for eighth on the BGSU single-season list. Eccleston had a record of 21-13 in singles, and went 25-10 in doubles play. Her doubles win total tied her for fifth on the BG seasonal chart.
Eccleston played at the fifth singles flight through the early portion of the dual-match schedule, posting a 7-2 record. She played a pair of fourth-flight matches in late February, then moved to the number-two spot and remained there for the rest of the season, including all MAC regular-season and tourney matches.
In doubles, Eccleston played at the top flight all season, teaming with Christine Chiricosta for all but one of her 35 matches on the year. That duo went 16-6 in dual-match play, including a 6-2 mark in MAC regular-season action. They won eight consecutive matches from early February to late March, and ended the regular season by winning 13 of the last 15 matches.
Eccleston has a career winning percentage of .662 as a Falcon. After only two years, is just one win away from moving into the top 25 in career victories at BGSU. She has an overall mark of 86-44 through the 2010-11 season.
In the classroom, Eccleston maintains a 3.92 cumulative GPA as a health science major through the spring of 2011.
BGSU, Akron and Western Michigan each had two student-athletes voted to the eight-member Academic All-MAC Team. Chiricosta and Eccleston were joined by UA's Angelika Jogasuria and Prang Pantusart, WMU's Amanda Moccia and Rachel Denny, Miami's Stephanie Danesis and Toledo's Ashley Frey. Chiricosta and Moccia both were three-time selections.
To be nominated for the team, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 and must have competed in at least 50 percent of the athletic competitions for their sport in the current academic year. Freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible to be nominated.
The tennis Falcons concluded the 2010-11 season with 15 wins, just one shy of the school record, and finished three spots higher than predicted in the MAC standings. BGSU finished the campaign with a dual-match record of 15-8 and a MAC ledger of 5-3. The Falcons, picked to place seventh in the MAC in the preseason coaches poll, actually finished fourth before advancing to the semifinal round of the MAC Championships.
The complete 2011 Academic All-MAC Team follows...
2011 ACADEMIC ALL-MAC TEAM
Angelika Jogasuria, Akron, Sophomore, Nursing, 3.46, Serpong, Indonesia
Prang Pantusart, Akron, Sophomore, Business, 3.49, Amphur Muang, Nonthaburi, Thailand
&# Christine Chiricosta, Bowling Green, Senior, AYA Secondary Education, 4.00, Avon Lake, Ohio
Maddy Eccleston, Bowling Green, Sophomore, Health Science, 3.92, Toledo, Ohio
Stephanie Danesis, Miami, Junior, Exercise Science, 3.46, Akron, Ohio
Ashley Frey, Toledo, Senior, Civil Engineering, 3.58, Mentor, Ohio
Rachel Denny, Western Michigan, Junior, Biomedical Sciences, 3.91, Oakland Township, Mich.
&# Amanda Moccia, Western Michigan, Senior, Biomedical Sciences, 3.88, Livonia, Mich.
& 2010 Academic All-MAC Team
# 2009 Academic All-MAC Team
Chiricosta was selected to the team for the third consecutive season, while Eccleston earned the honor in her first year of eligibility for the award. The Academic All-MAC Team is the result of voting by the league's Faculty Athletics Representatives.
Chiricosta, a native of Avon Lake, Ohio (Avon Lake HS), is quite possibly the most decorated player in BGSU tennis history. She finished her career holding all three school records for wins. Chiricosta had a total of 178 combined career victories, with 89 singles and 89 doubles wins. In the 2010-11 campaign, she was named to the All-Mid-American Conference First Team for the second-straight season, after earning all-conference second-team honors in each of her first two years at BGSU.
In the 2010-11 campaign, Chiricosta had an overall mark of 50-20, having played at the number-one flight in both singles and doubles. That 50-win total tied her for fifth place on the BGSU single-season wins list. The team co-captain had identical marks of 25-10 in both singles and doubles on the season. Her singles win total was fifth on the BG single-season list, and the doubles win total deadlocked her for fifth on that school chart.
Chiricosta has amassed a veritable plethora of hardware off the court as well as on. Earlier this spring, she earned the BGSU Department of Athletics Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor is the highest award given by the athletics department, and is given to one male and one female who encompass everything that a BGSU student-athlete should be. One year earlier, she had been named BGSU's Junior Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
On the court, in addition to earning All-MAC First-Team honors, Chiricosta shared the conference's Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award. That award, which is the result of voting by the MAC women's tennis student-athletes, is presented to the player or players who displayed outstanding sportsmanship in MAC competition. Chiricosta was named the MAC's Scholar-Athlete of the Week twice in her senior year and five times in her Falcon career.
In the classroom, Chiricosta maintained a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade-point average as an adolescent/young adult/secondary education major.
Eccleston, a native of Toledo, Ohio (St. Ursula Acad.), won two-thirds of her matches, going 46-23 this season. Her win total tied her for eighth on the BGSU single-season list. Eccleston had a record of 21-13 in singles, and went 25-10 in doubles play. Her doubles win total tied her for fifth on the BG seasonal chart.
Eccleston played at the fifth singles flight through the early portion of the dual-match schedule, posting a 7-2 record. She played a pair of fourth-flight matches in late February, then moved to the number-two spot and remained there for the rest of the season, including all MAC regular-season and tourney matches.
In doubles, Eccleston played at the top flight all season, teaming with Christine Chiricosta for all but one of her 35 matches on the year. That duo went 16-6 in dual-match play, including a 6-2 mark in MAC regular-season action. They won eight consecutive matches from early February to late March, and ended the regular season by winning 13 of the last 15 matches.
Eccleston has a career winning percentage of .662 as a Falcon. After only two years, is just one win away from moving into the top 25 in career victories at BGSU. She has an overall mark of 86-44 through the 2010-11 season.
In the classroom, Eccleston maintains a 3.92 cumulative GPA as a health science major through the spring of 2011.
BGSU, Akron and Western Michigan each had two student-athletes voted to the eight-member Academic All-MAC Team. Chiricosta and Eccleston were joined by UA's Angelika Jogasuria and Prang Pantusart, WMU's Amanda Moccia and Rachel Denny, Miami's Stephanie Danesis and Toledo's Ashley Frey. Chiricosta and Moccia both were three-time selections.
To be nominated for the team, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 and must have competed in at least 50 percent of the athletic competitions for their sport in the current academic year. Freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible to be nominated.
The tennis Falcons concluded the 2010-11 season with 15 wins, just one shy of the school record, and finished three spots higher than predicted in the MAC standings. BGSU finished the campaign with a dual-match record of 15-8 and a MAC ledger of 5-3. The Falcons, picked to place seventh in the MAC in the preseason coaches poll, actually finished fourth before advancing to the semifinal round of the MAC Championships.
The complete 2011 Academic All-MAC Team follows...
2011 ACADEMIC ALL-MAC TEAM
Angelika Jogasuria, Akron, Sophomore, Nursing, 3.46, Serpong, Indonesia
Prang Pantusart, Akron, Sophomore, Business, 3.49, Amphur Muang, Nonthaburi, Thailand
&# Christine Chiricosta, Bowling Green, Senior, AYA Secondary Education, 4.00, Avon Lake, Ohio
Maddy Eccleston, Bowling Green, Sophomore, Health Science, 3.92, Toledo, Ohio
Stephanie Danesis, Miami, Junior, Exercise Science, 3.46, Akron, Ohio
Ashley Frey, Toledo, Senior, Civil Engineering, 3.58, Mentor, Ohio
Rachel Denny, Western Michigan, Junior, Biomedical Sciences, 3.91, Oakland Township, Mich.
&# Amanda Moccia, Western Michigan, Senior, Biomedical Sciences, 3.88, Livonia, Mich.
& 2010 Academic All-MAC Team
# 2009 Academic All-MAC Team
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