Men's Tennis 4/27/2018 10:26:00 PM Corey Miggins, Sports Information Director

Gonzalez, Wattley Close Collegiate Careers as CSU Ends 2017-18 Season at WAC Tournament

MESA, Ariz. – The Chicago State men's tennis team fell to host Grand Canyon in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Western Athletic Conference Tournament today by a score of 4-0 here at the Mesa Tennis Center.

The match served as the final competition in the collegiate careers of a pair of four-year seniors in Christian Gonzalez (Mungia, Spain/Larramendi Ikastola) and Rohan Wattley (Slough, United Kingdom/Burnham).

Gonzalez finished his season with 20 wins in singles play and 22 wins in doubles competition while capturing three school Division I records (most singles wins and most doubles wins. He earned team Most Valuable Player and CSU Male Student-Athlete of the Year accolades this season, named a CSU Scholar-Athlete for the fourth consecutive season and captured All-WAC doubles honors for a third consecutive year after winning second team honors with junior partner Felix Savard (Laval, QC Canada/Saint-Gabriel).

Wattley finished his senior campaign with 15 singles wins while primarily playing in the No. 2 slot. He closes his CSU career ranked sixth on the school's D-I singles list and is a four-time CSU Scholar-Athlete honoree. He received a scholarship with the National Association of Black Accountants last summer and will intern with Deloitte this upcoming summer.

GoCSUCougars.com wishes nothing but the best of luck to these young men in their future endeavors.

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