Three Men's Tennis Players Earn All-Ivy League Honors
4/30/2010 1:00:00 AM | Men's Tennis
NEW YORK – The Ivy League championship-winning Columbia men's tennis team had three players named to the All-Ivy League team this spring, as senior co-captains Mihai Nichifor and Jonathan Wong were both unanimous first team selections for both singles and doubles, while sophomore Haig Schneiderman was a second-team honoree.
Nichifor led the selections for Columbia, as the senior was a perfect 7-0 in Ivy League single matches this season, playing in the No. 2 spot. Combined with his junior year effort, Nichifor graduates with a perfect 14-0 Ivy League singles record. Overall, Nichifor compiled a 15-4 record in dual matches.
His co-captain Wong, the 2007 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, also earned unanimous first team All-Ivy League honors in singles. Wong went 5-2 in the No. 1 spot this year in Ivy League competition, 12-7 overall, and lead the Lions to the third Ivy League team championship of his career. That win made Wong the first player in Columbia men's tennis history to accomplish such a feat.
Nichifor and Wong also earned unanimous first-team accolades as a doubles pair. The duo, playing in the No. 1 spot, went 5-2 in Ivy League action, 13-6 overall, including a 9-1 run to end the season.
Schneiderman, the 2009 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, also earned a nod from the League as he was selected to the second team. Schneiderman had the most wins in dual matches of any singles player with 17, was a perfect 7-0 in Ivy League play in the No. 3 singles spot this season, and clinched the Ivy League title for the Lions with his match-sealing win against Princeton earlier this April.
2009-10 Ivy League Men's Tennis Postseason Awards
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
*Mihai Nichifor, Columbia (Sr., Constanta, Romania)
*Jonathan Wong, Columbia (Sr., Melville, N.Y.)
Andy Gauthier, Cornell (Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Alexei Chijoff-Evans, Harvard (Jr., Plano, Texas)
John Huang, Yale (Fr., Irvine, Calif.)
*Marc Powers, Yale (Fr., Stamford, Conn.)
Doubles
*Jonathan Wong (Sr., Melville, N.Y.) & Mihai Nichifor (Sr., Constanta, Romania), Columbia
*Jeremy Feldman (Jr., Armonk, N.Y.) & Any Gauthier (Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.), Cornell
Aba Omodele-Lucien (Jr., Berkeley, Calif.) & Christo Schultz (Fr., Sudbury, Mass.), Harvard
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
Tom Deighton, Brown (Fr., London, England)
Haig Schneiderman, Columbia (So., New York, N.Y.)
Jonathan Jaklitsch, Cornell (Jr., Islip, N.Y.)
Dan Freeman, Dartmouth (Sr., Chatsworth, Calif.)
Charlie Brosens, Princeton (Sr., Bedford, N.Y.)
Matija Pecotic, Princeton (Fr., Sliema, Malta)
Doubles
Dan Freeman (Sr., Chatsworth, Calif.) & Michael Laser (So., Glencoe, Ill.), Dartmouth
Alistair Felton (So., Somerset, England) & Andy Nguyen (Fr., Phoenix, Ariz.), Harvard
Erik Blumenkranz (So., Portola Valley, Calif.) & Joel Samaha (So., Tampa, Fla.), Yale
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Marc Powers, Yale (Fr., Stamford, Conn.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
*Marc Powers, Yale (Fr., Stamford, Conn.)
*Unanimous Selection
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