Maddy Eccleston

2012-13 BGSU Tennis - Michael Nemeth photo

Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
High School:
St. Ursula Acad.
Hometown:
Toledo, Ohio

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ECCLESTON AND THE FALCONS
The winningest doubles player in BGSU history ... had a total of 97 doubles victories, and had 169 combined career wins to rank second on that BGSU list ... tied for 13th on the BG career singles list, with 72 wins ... has a career winning percentage of .643 ... went 72-56 (.563) in singles play and a stellar 97-38 (.719) in doubles action during her career, for an overall mark of 169-94 ... teamed with Christine Chiricosta for all but three of her doubles matches in her first two seasons, with that tandem going 44-18 ... finished her career with a record of 22-10 in doubles matches in MAC regular-season play, going 6-2 in three of her four seasons and 4-3 in the other ... went 3-0 in doubles play in the MAC Championships over her final two seasons ... in dual-match play during her career, went 62-22 in doubles, including marks of 37-15 at the top flight and 25-7 at the second ... was named an ITA Scholar Athlete in each of her four seasons at BGSU.

2012-13
BGSU's female recipient of the Falcon Medal of Honor, the highest award given by the department ... the award is given to the male and female student-athlete who embody the essence of the qualities BGSU Athletics holds important for all student-athletes -- scholarship, athletics, leadership and service ... a team co-captain for the second consecutive season ... named to the Academic All-MAC Team for the third consecutive season ... and, was named an ITA Scholar Athlete for the fourth time in as many years ... finished the season with an overall record of 42-27 as the Falcons won a school-record 17 matches and recorded the best conference regular-season and tournament finishes in program history ... that individual win-loss record included a 28-10 doubles mark ... had a 73.7% doubles winning percentage ... played at the third singles flight during the entire dual-match schedule, and played at the second doubles flight for most of the spring ... played at the number-one doubles flight in four dual matches ... won 16 of 17 doubles matches during a stretch from Jan. 19 to April 12 ... teamed up with fellow senior Katie Grubb for a 23-7 doubles mark on the year, including a 6-2 record in MAC play ... that duo went 2-0 at the second flight during the MAC Championships ... they won their first six conference matches before losing a pair of narrow 8-6 decisions ... picked up a straight-sets singles victory at the third flight, helping the Falcons to an historic victory at Western Michigan (April 20) ... it marked BGSU's first-ever win against the Broncos ... the next weekend, teamed with Grubb for an 8-6 win over Akron (April 27) and an 8-3 victory against Miami (April 28) at the league tourney ... the win over the RedHawks was the first doubles match to finish, giving BGSU its first-ever win of any kind in the championship match of the league tourney ... became BGSU's all-time winningest doubles player on March 22, as she and Grubb posted an 8-1 victory against Toledo in the MAC opener ... that was the 90th doubles win of her career, and came in BGSU's 12th consecutive win, also a school record ... the Eccleston/Grubb duo won 14-of-15 matches from Jan. 19 to April 12, with win streaks of six and eight matches in that time ... had an 11-8 overall mark in the fall, going 4-4 in singles and 7-4 in doubles ... in addition to the 30 doubles matches with Grubb, also played with Emily Reuland (with that duo going 3-1) and Katie Brozovich (2-2) during the season ... defeated an Iowa State opponent in a tiebreaker in fourth-flight action at the WMU Super Challenge ... went a perfect 3-0 on the weekend at the Rocket Invitational ... those three wins included a pair of doubles victories with Grubb ... after missing first-day play at the BGSU Invitational due to illness, teamed with Grubb to go 2-0 in Saturday doubles action ... was one of four Falcons to participate in the Muirfield Collegiate Tennis Invitational in Dublin, Ohio ... went 2-2 in singles play, and teamed with Brozovich to split four doubles matches.

2011-12
A co-captain of the 2011-12 Falcons ... won the MAC's Leann Grimes Davidge Sportsmanship Award ... the award is presented to the player who displayed outstanding sportsmanship in MAC competition, and is the result of voting by the MAC women's tennis student-athletes ... was chosen to the Academic All-MAC Team for the second consecutive season ... and, was named an ITA Scholar Athlete for the third year in a row ... posted an overall record of 41-23 on the season, with a 19-13 mark in singles and a 22-10 mark in doubles ... tied for second on the team in doubles wins ... that doubles record included a 4-2 mark when competing with Nikki Chiricosta, a 7-3 record with Katie Grubb and a 9-4 slate with Jade Johnson ... also went 2-1 when teamed up with Emily Reuland ... played with Grubb during MAC action, with a 4-3 record during league regular-season play and a 1-0 mark in the conference championships ... the latter win with Grubb came by an 8-4 score against an Eastern Michigan duo in the MAC Championships, exactly one week after they had lost to the same team by the same score in the teams' regular-season meeting ... the Eccleston/Johnson duo reeled off a six-match win streak, losing a combined total of just nine games in the latter four matches of that streak ... did not lose a game in her victory over Ball State's Kylee Johnson, then dropped only two total games against Valparaiso's Stephanie York three days later ... had five matches during the season in which she lost just one total game ... those five matches included a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Sara McLaughlin of Northern Illinois at top-flight action in the MAC opener ... posted a come-from-behind, three-set win over Olga Chernova of Michigan State in second-flight action, winning the final two sets by identical 6-1 scores during the teams' dual match in East Lansing ... went 22-6 during the fall schedule, tying for the team lead in both overall wins and winning percentage ... paced the Falcons in singles victories in the fall, with a 12-2 mark ... went 10-4 in doubles ... was unbeaten in singles action at three of her five fall tournaments ... won nine of her first 10 singles matches of the fall ... 11 of her 12 fall singles victories came in the minimum two sets, including wins over players from Michigan State and Wisconsin at MSU's Green and White Invitational ... for her efforts that weekend, was named the MAC's Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Nov. 10 ... went a perfect 6-0 in East Lansing, teaming with Johnson for a Flight-C doubles title and winning a singles crown at Flight B ... went 6-2 when teaming with Johnson in the fall, and was 4-2 with Chiricosta as her partner ... competed in both singles and doubles at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships ... in singles, won a pair of qualifying-draw matches, and fell just one win shy of advancing to the main draw ... won a singles flight title at Toledo's Rocket Invite ... teamed up with Chiricosta to capture a doubles crown at the Fall MAC Invite in Kalamazoo ... advanced to the championship match of her singles flight that weekend, before losing to Chiricosta in an all-BGSU final ... won a singles championship at the BGSU Invitational for the second-straight September, going a perfect 3-0 at the third flight.

2010-11
Named to the Academic All-MAC Team in her first year of eligibility for the award ... also named an ITA Scholar Athlete, earning that honor for the second-straight season ... won two-thirds of her matches, with an overall record of 46-23 ... her win total tied her for eighth on the BGSU single-season list ... went 21-13 in singles and 25-10 in doubles play ... deadlocked for fifth on the BG seasonal list for doubles wins ... played at the fifth singles flight through the early portion of the dual-match schedule, posting a 7-2 record ... played a pair of matches at the fourth flight 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, played at the top flight all season ... teamed 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 ... in singles play, had a four-match winning streak to end the month of January, losing a total of only four games in those eight sets ... did not lose a single game in victories over West Virginia and IUPUI on back-to-back Saturdays ... in the fall, went 18-8, with a 9-4 ledger in both singles and doubles ... won her first five singles matches of the year, including a 3-0 mark and a flight championship at the BGSU Invitational ... also was a perfect 3-0 in singles at the Rocket Invitational ... had a 6-0 overall mark that weekend, with a 3-0 doubles ledger, but no flight champions were crowned ... two of her four singles losses in the fall came in three sets ... in doubles, went 2-0 with Christine Chiricosta and 1-0 with classmate Jade Johnson at the Rocket Invite.

2009-10
Was named an ITA Scholar Athlete ... finished second on the team in wins in her first year on campus ... overall record of 40-21 included a singles record of 18-13, along with a 22-8 doubles mark ... led the team in doubles victories, and her 22-win total tied for 10th on the BGSU single-season list ... overall total of 40 wins tied for 15th on that school list ... played primarily at the fourth flight in dual-match singles play, going 9-6 ... played at the fifth flight during the final seven matches of the season, going 3-3 (MAC Tournament match was abandoned) ... in doubles, teamed with Christine Chiricosta at the top flight for the entire spring ... that duo went 16-6 in dual matches, 6-2 in MAC regular-season play and 20-8 overall ... she and Chiricosta won nine of 10 matches from early March to late April ... also competed in two matches with Katia Babina on the season, winning both ... in the fall, had an overall record of 12-6, going 6-4 in singles action and 6-2 in doubles ... went 2-1 in singles at the Belmont Invitational ... had an overall doubles record of 3-0 that weekend, going 2-0 with Babina ... had a 3-1 singles mark at the Queen City Invitational, advancing to the championship match of the B flight ... in her first weekend of intercollegiate action, teamed with Chiricosta to advance to the title match of the top doubles flight at the BGSU Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL
A four-year letterwinner for coach Mary Kay Minder at St. Ursula Academy ... a two-time City League Player of the Year, and a four-time All-City League First-Team selection ... was an all-state first-team honoree in 2008, after being named to the second team in both 2006 and 2007 ... helped the Arrows win a pair of league titles, in her sophomore and senior seasons ... SUA shared the title in 2006, and won it outright in ‘08 ... had an overall singles record of 85-7 in her four years, winning individual league titles in singles as both a junior and a senior ... in doubles, advanced to the state semifinals as a senior, finishing third in Ohio ... SUA finished fourth in the state in each of her final two years ... National Honor Society ... made the Dean’s List.

PERSONAL
Full name Madelyn Rose Eccleston ... daughter of Jeff Eccleston and Sylvia Wielinski ... born on April 26, 1991, in Toledo, Ohio ... health science major at BGSU ... graduated with a stellar cumulative GPA of 3.96 ... the third of five children ... has four brothers.