Chicago State men's tennis player
Pedro Alvarez was named to the Western Athletic Conference First Team Singles All-Conference team today. The honor is the second in as many seasons for the sophomore out of Cagua, Venezuela, who last season was named First Team All-WAC Singles No. 5 and additionally was named Second Team All-WAC Doubles. Alvarez earned 10 singles victories this spring with nine of those victories coming at No. 1.
Alvarez and his Cougars teammates will close the season this weekend at the 2022 WAC Men's Tennis tournament at the Beaumont Municipal Tennis Center in Beaumont, Texas. Chicago State earned the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 New Mexico State in Match Two on Friday, April 22, at 9 a.m. The winner will advance to face No. 2 Abilene Christian on Saturday, April 23. The championship match is Sunday, April 23 at 9 a.m. and the winner of the tournament will earn the league's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
The following are the 2022 WAC Men's Tennis Award Winners:
Player of the Year: Daniel Sancho Arbizu, Lamar
Freshman of the Year: Daniel Sancho Arbizu, Lamar
Coach of the Year: Scott Shankles, Lamar
Singles All-Conference
First Team
Pedro Alvarez, Chicago State
Max Amling, Lamar
Daniel Sancho Arbizu, Lamar
Cesar Barranquero, Abilene Christian
Dario Kmet, Abilene Christian
Louis Menard, NM State
Second Team
Gijs Akkermans, NM State
Oswaldo Cano, Abilene Christian
Martin Garcia-Ripoll, Lamar
Daniel Morozov, Abilene Christian
Juan Jose Rodriguez, Lamar
Jordy Visser, NM State
Doubles All-Conference
First Team
Dario Kmet/Daniel Morozov, Abilene Christian
Joshua Taylor/Martin Garcia-Ripoll, Lamar
Second Team
Louis Menard/Jordy Visser, NM State
Juan Jose Rodriguez/Daniel Sancho Arbizu, Lamar
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach
Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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