Honors for 2018 SLIAC Women's Tennis Season
The 2018 St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Women's Tennis All-Conference teams and awards winners have been voted on and include Monica Behrle, David Dyson, and Emma Wieland taking home top individual honors.
Monica Behrle, a senior from Webster University, is the 2018 SLIAC Player of the Year. She becomes just the third player in program history to receive the conference's top individual award and the first to do so since 2014. Behrle went undefeated in conference play this season in both singles and doubles action, combining for a 10-0 record. She was 18-5 overall in singles this season while adding 15 more wins in doubles. She finishes her career as Webster's career leader in singles and doubles wins.
Emma Wieland is this year's Newcomer of the Year after playing #2 singles for Greenville University this spring. Wieland recorded two conference wins in singles and added another win in doubles play. She is the first Panther to receive the award since 2013.
The 2018 SLIAC Coach of the Year is David Dyson. Dyson led Westminster College to a 4-1 conference record, good for second in the SLIAC while totaling an 8-3 overall record. He guided the Blue Jays to the championship match of the conference tournament just one year after the team finished in 5th place. This is Coach Dyson's third time winning the award.
Below is a full list of the 2018 SLIAC Women's Tennis All-Conference Team.
SLIAC | First Team | All-Conference |
Singles | Player | School |
#1 | Monica Behrle | Webster University |
#2 | Madison Watts | Webster University |
#3 | Jesse Steffens-Willis | Webster University |
#4 | Sara Rice | Webster University |
#5 | Maggie Federhofer | Webster University |
#6 | Annie Bellinger | Greenville University |
Doubles | Player | School |
#1 | Monica Behrle | Webster University |
Madison Watts | ||
#2 | Sydney Attebery | Westminster College |
Payton Beeler | ||
#3 | Meaghan McGuire | Westminster College |
Laural Royer | ||
SLIAC | Second Team | |
Singles | Player | School |
#1 | Clara Baldwin | Westminster College |
#2 | Sydney Attebery | Westminster College |
#3 | Courtney Blaser | Greenville University |
Olivia Kaspryzk | Principia College | |
#4 | Alexa McPherson | Westminster College |
#5 | Samantha Siefken | Greenville University |
#6 | Payton Beeler | Westminster College |
Doubles | Player | School |
#1 | Clara Baldwin | Westminster College |
Alexa McPherson | ||
#2 | Maggie Federhofer | Webster University |
Sara Rice | ||
#3 | Robin Bolme | Webster University |
Jesse Steffens-Willis | ||
SLIAC | All-Sportsmanship | Team |
Player | School | |
Sophie Netemeyer | Blackburn College | |
Sarah Johnson | Fontbonne University | |
Courtney Blaser | Greenville College | |
Hallie Jones | Principia College | |
Jordan Struckman | Webster University | |
Laural Royer | Westminster College |