Thursday, 04/26/2012

OMAHA, Neb. - The Drake women's tennis team pulled in a pair of accolades when the annual Missouri Valley Conference postseason awards were announced on Thursday (April 26).

Junior Manca Krizman (Solkan, Slovenia) and sophomore Klavdija Rebol (Kranj, Slovenia) were both tabbed to the MVC All-Select squad.

Krizman pulled in All-Select team honors for the third year in a row, after registering a 30-4 ledger overall and a 5-2 mark in league play.  She is 22-2 on the dual campaign and earlier in the season maintained a 25-match winning streak that carried over from the fall season.

After being named to the All-MVC first team as a freshman, Rebol corralled All-Select laurels after going 21-7 overall in singles, including 5-2 in league action.

"I'm very proud of all of our players for the accomplishments in the classroom and on the courts," Drake head coach Paul Thomson commented.  "They all perform for and push each other.  It is nice that they were recognized by the other coaches and SID's, but I think even the they would say everything they do is a team effort."

The second-seeded Bulldogs (21-6) open play at the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Championship on Friday (April 27) in Omaha, Neb., against seventh-seeded Northern Iowa in a 1:00 p.m. match.