Women's Tennis Awards

Sarah Borwell

CHICAGO- Conference USA's Coach of the Year and Player of the Year both hail from the state of Texas, as veteran TCU coach ROLAND INGRAM and Houston senior SARAH BORWELL earned C-USA's top two women's tennis individual honors in 2002. The league's 14 head coaches also voted Tulane's MARIA IVANOV as C-USA Freshman of the Year.

Ingram, the only full-time head coach in TCU's 19-year women's tennis history, enters the May 10 NCAA Championship with a 327-154 mark (.680). The Horned Frogs earned Conference USA's automatic bid to the NCAAs when they won the C-USA Championship April 21 in Ft. Worth. Ingram's teams have posted 16 winning campaigns and will be making their sixth NCAA Regional appearance. This marks TCU's third-straight 20-win season and the sixth in Ingram's tenure. The 2001 ITA Southwest Region Coach of the Year is a member of the Texas Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame and has served as a coach in several U.S. Olympic Festivals.

Borwell has ranked among the top 15 in the nation this season and opened 2002 with an 11-match winning streak, topping her former career-best of nine set last fall. The senior from Middlesborough, England sat out the 1999-00 season to recover from back surgery and has posted a 26-6 dual match mark over the last two years.

Ivanov has been ranked as high as No. 87 in the nation and compiled a 13-7 singles record and a 10-9 doubles mark at the first and second positions as the Green Wave finished third at the Conference USA Championship. Ivanov was one of three Green Wave to earn Conference USA Player of the Week honors this season. Ivanov and Borwell are joined on the Conference USA First Team by TCU's PATY ABURTO and KATRIN GABER, DePaul's SZILVIA KELEMEN and UAB's MONIKA SCHMID. This is the second time in their respective careers that Kelemen and Schmid have been named to the first team.

Second Team All-Conference USA features Marquette's GEN CHARRON and EVA TRUJILLO, Houston's JEN BACCARANI, Memphis' SABRINA LINDEMANN, Tulane's JULIE MORRIS and South Florida's NATALIE SCHWARTZ. TCU's ROSA PEREZ and SABER PIERCE, Charlotte's LAURA SWAIN, Marquette's BELLE ESPINOSA and MONICA GONZALES-GORDO of Memphis comprise the third team.

TCU led all Conference USA teams with four all-league selections, followed by Houston and Marquette with three each and Tulane and Memphis with two apiece.

2002 Conference USA Women's Tennis Awards



First Team
Paty Aburto, TCU
Sarah Borwell, Houston
Katrin Gaber, TCU
Maria Ivanov, Tulane
Szilvia Kelemen, DePaul
Monika Schmid, UAB

Second Team
Jen Baccarani, Houston
Gen Charron, Marquette
Sabrina Lindemann, Memphis
Julie Morris, Tulane
Natalie Schwartz, South Florida
Eva Trujillo, Marquette

Third Team
Belle Espinosa, Marquette
Monica Gonzales-Gordo, Memphis
Jo Keene, Houston
Rosa Perez, TCU
Saber Pierce, TCU
Laura Swain, Charlotte

Coach of the Year
Roland Ingram, TCU

Player of the Year
Sarah Borwell, Houston

Freshman of the Year
Maria Ivanov, Tulane