NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana men's tennis standout Karan Salwanhas been chosen to the 2015-16 All-Louisiana collegiate first team and as Newcomer of the Year.
XU's Thomas Setodji made the second team, and Kyle Montrel received honorable mention. The All-Louisiana women include Xavier's Charlene Goreau on the second team.
A Louisiana Sports Writers Association panel of sports information directors selected the teams, which the LSWA announced late Saturday.
Salwan, a junior from New Delhi, India, and a graduate of Modern School, was 22-5 in singles and 25-5 doubles in his debut XU season after transferring from Utah State. Salwan produced 10 singles victories and 10 doubles victories vs. NCAA Division I, including New Orleans, Louisiana-Lafayette, Nicholls State, Troy, Southern Miss and Big South Conference runner-up Presbyterian.
Salwan is the fourth Gold Rush player in the last seven seasons to receive Newcomer of the Year. Hassan Abbas (2009-10), Loic Didavi (2011-12) and Kevin Chaouat (2013-14) were the others.
Setodji, a home-schooled freshman from Domont, France, was 17-0 in singles and 12-7 in doubles after enrolling at Xavier in January. He led the Gold Rush with eight dual-clinching singles victories.
Montrel, a senior from Atlanta and a graduate of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, was 16-10 in singles and 22-7 in doubles. He received honorable mention after three consecutive seasons on the All-Louisiana first team.
Goreau, a freshman from Toulouse, France, and a graduate of Raymond Naves School, was 15-5 in singles and 7-13 in doubles after enrolling at Xavier in January. She led the Gold Nuggets in singles victories during the spring and won 10 consecutive singles decisions Feb. 24-March 29.
Xavier had two runners-up in voting for the major awards — Setodji for Freshman of the Year and Alan Green for men's Coach of the Year.
Salwan, Setodji, Montrel and Goreau were announced this past week as first-team NAIA All-Americans. The ITA will announce its NAIA All-Americans this week.
2015-16 All-Louisiana Tennis WOMEN FIRST TEAM Hannah Brett, sophomore, McNeese State Jessica Golovin, freshman, LSU Abby Owens, junior, LSU Alexandra Starkova, senior, Louisiana Tech Joana Vale Costa, junior, LSU Renee Villarreal, senior, Southeastern Louisiana SECOND TEAM Ryann Foster, sophomore, LSU Charlene Goreau, freshman, Xavier Polina Ivanoa, sophomore, Northwestern State Sarah Jurakova, sophomore, McNeese State Natalya Krutova, senior, Northwestern State Skyler Kuykendall, senior, LSU Tiffany Mylonas, freshman, Louisiana-Monroe PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Renee Villarreal, Southeastern Louisiana Voting: Villarreal 5, Starkova 3, Vale Costa 2, Brett 1 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Ryann Foster, LSU (only nominee) FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Jessica Golovin, LSU Voting: Voting: Golovin 7, Giovanna Fioretti (McNeese State) 3, Iryna Vardanian (Northwestern State) 1 COACH OF THE YEAR: (tie) (Tie) Chad Camper, Louisiana Tech, and Julia and Michael Sell, LSU Voting: Camper 4, Sells 4, Olga Bazhanova (Northwestern State) 1, Helena Besovic (McNeese State) 1, Stephanie Vallejos (Louisiana-Lafayette) 1. HONORABLE MENTION: Jazmin Britos, junior, Louisiana Tech; Giovanna Fioretti, freshman, McNeese State MEN FIRST TEAM Justin Butsch, junior, LSU Dominik Koepfer, senior, Tulane Chi-Shan Jo, junior, Tulane Edgar Lopez, senior, Louisiana-Lafayette Karan Salwan, junior, Xavier Constantin Schmitz, sophomore, Tulane SECOND TEAM Boris Arias, senior, LSU Gabor Csonka, sophomore, LSU Jordan Daigle, junior, LSU Arthur Libaud, freshman, Louisiana-Lafayette Sebastian Rey, junior, Tulane Thomas Setodji, freshman, Xavier PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Dominik Koepfer, Tulane Voting: Koepfer 6, Butsch 1 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: Karan Salwan, Xavier Voting: Salwan 4, Csonka 3 FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR: Arthur Libaud, Louisiana-Lafayette Voting: Libaud 3, Setodji 2, Tyler Schick, (Tulane) 2 COACH OF THE YEAR: Mark Booras, Tulane Voting: Booras 4, Alan Green (Xavier) 2, Jeff Brown (LSU) 1 HONORABLE MENTION: Kyle Montrel, senior, Xavier Ed Cassiere, Sports Information Director XULAgold.com XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA twitter.com/xulagold www.facebook.com/xulagold |
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