DENVER –
Idaho’s Marius Cirstea and Boise State’s Sonia Klamczynska have been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Tennis Players of the Week for March 21-27.
Cirstea, a sophomore from Bucharest, Romania, was perfect in singles play on the week, going 4-0 at the No. 1 spot, including a win over No. 89 Damian Hume from Boise State. He helped the Vandals to a 3-1 record on the week, with the only loss coming 4-3 to No. 61 Boise State. In doubles play, Cirstea teamed with Alex Joitoiu to go 1-1, winning at No. 1 doubles over Marquette, and falling at the top spot to BSU’s No. 76 ranked team of Hume and Scotty Sears.
Klamczynska, a junior from Warsaw, Poland, helped Boise State to a 5-2 victory over No. 54 Oregon with wins at No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles. In singles, she came back to defeat Oregon’s Patricia Skowronski, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. In doubles, she teamed with Elyse Edwards to beat the Ducks’ Julia Metzger and Trudie Du Toit, 8-6. Klamczynska has won seven of her last 10 singles matches and is now 21-12 on the season.
Other male nominees included: Andy Bettles, Boise State; Rikus de Villiers, Fresno State; Dennis Lajola, Hawai‘i; and Bryan Marchant, Utah State.
Other female nominees included: Marianne Jodoin, Fresno State; Magdalena Ploch, Hawai‘i; Vivian ten Dolle, Louisiana Tech; Florence De Vrye, Nevada; and Ros-Polly Nguyen, New Mexico State.