PRINCETON, N.J. – Four Columbia women's tennis players – junior Anna Zhang (First Team Singles), sophomore Winta Tewolde (Second Team Singles), Zhang and first-year Sophia Wang (Second Team Doubles), and senior Michelle Xu (Academic All-Ivy) – earned Women's Tennis All-Ivy League accolades, the conference office announced on Thursday afternoon.
 
"This is well deserved recognition for our players who achieved a lot of success during Ivy season," Columbia Women's Tennis Head Coach Ilene Weintraub said. "Anna earned an overall 4-3 record during Ivy play and stepped up to clinch our match vs. Harvard. Winta had an undefeated 4-0 record in Ivy singles competing consistently well each match to always put our team in a winning position."
 
Zhang earned First-Team All-Ivy recognition for her performance in singles play this spring. She went 8-8 in the spring dual season with wins at the No. 1 spot in Ivy League matches against Penn, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale. Zhang clinched Columbia's 4-3 win over No. 72 Harvard as she rallied to force a third set that she would end up winning. Zhang earned second team honors last season.
 
Tewolde garnered Second-Team All-Ivy honors for her impressive performance in singles play this spring. She posted a 9-2 record in dual matches with wins in four Ivy League duals – Cornell, Penn, Yale, and Brown. Tewolde primarily played in the middle of the lineup in the No. 3 and 4 spots. She worked her way up the playing the No. 2 singles in the last two matches of the season against Yale and Brown.
 
The duo of Zhang and Sophia Wang earned Second-Team All-Ivy status in doubles. The duo played the No. 1 doubles spot almost all season for the Lions as they achieved a 10-4 record with wins against Cornell and Dartmouth in Ivy League play.
 
"Sophia Wang is only getting started, having just completed her first season as a Lion," Weintraub said. "It is exciting to have all of these players returning next year."
 
Xu joined the list of All-Ivy Lions as she was recognized as Academic All-Ivy. A native of Vienna, Virginia, Xu will graduate from Columbia College with a degree in economics. She will begin her career as an equity research associate at Barclays this summer.
 
"I am in awe of Michelle in terms of how she is able to balance the demands of being a Division I athlete in a rigorous academic environment and achieve so much success in both areas," Weintraub said. "She is a role model for our younger players and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors."
 
ALL-IVY AWARD WINNERS
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Lucie Schmidhauser, Brown
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Daria Frayman, Princeton*
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Charlotte Owensby, Harvard
 
FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
Ali Benedetto, Brown*
Lan Mi, Cornell*
Daria Frayman, Princeton*
Anna Zhang, Columbia
Neha Velaga, Princeton
Chelsea Kung, Yale
 
Doubles
Britany Lau/Addison Ahlstrom, Brown*
Rachel Arbitman/Iveta Daujotaite, Harvard*
Daria Frayman/Grace Joyce, Princeton
 
SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles^
Winta Tewolde, Columbia
Lauren Stein, Cornell
Chidimma Okpara, Dartmouth
Maxi Duncan, Harvard
Charlotte Owensby, Harvard
Gavriella Smith, Penn
Rhea Shrivastava, Yale
 
Doubles 
Anna Zhang/Sophia Wang, Columbia
Sophia Ho/Maxi Duncan, Harvard
Rhea Shrivastava/Vivian Cheng, Yale
 
* Unanimous selection
^ Second Team Singles expanded due to ties in voting
 
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