TicketSmarter WAC Women’s Tennis Athletes of the Week Announced
DENVER – Tarleton earned both the spring season’s first weekly awards. Celia Vandiau was named the TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference singles Athlete of the Week. The duo of Deniza Marcinkevica and Jemi Aguilar were selected as the as the TicketSmarter doubles Team of the Week.
Vandiau split her opening week matches as she played at the No. 5 position for the Texans. The junior started her week with a 7-5, 6-0 setback against Texas A&M’s Renee Brown on Jan. 16. However, the next day she played nearly perfect as she registered a 6-0, 6-0 win against Yukina Abe of McNeese State.
The double tandem of Marcinkevica and Aguilar were thrown into the as the No. 1 position. In their first spring match, they battled the nation’s fifth ranked team of Jayci Goldsmith and Tatiana Makarova. The Aggies were up 5-2 before the match was halted after the home team secured the doubles point. Marcinkevica and Aquilar proved to strong the next day as they topped the McNeese duo of Carlotta Romito and Ariane Monlleo Sanch 6-1.