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Hubickova and Coache Represent SNHU with Major Awards.
MANSFIELD, Mass. – For the second time in her career, Southern New Hampshire senior Magdalena Hubickova has been selected the Northeast-10 Conference Women's Tennis Vern Cox Player of the Year, as the league announced its All-Conference award honorees on Thursday afternoon.
Joining Hubickova as a major award winner was SNHU's Greg Coache, the NE10 Coach of the Year, who led the Penmen to their first standalone NE10 regular season title since the 2013 season. Adelphi's Sanne Selmer Gilje earns NE10 Rookie of the Year honors in the same season that she won the 2022 ITA Division II East Region Women's Singles Championship.
SNHU led all NE10 program with six student-athletes earning nine All-Conference honors, while Le Moyne had five student-athletes win six awards and Franklin Pierce had five student-athletes take home five awards. All-Conference teams are broken into singles and doubles flights.
Hubickova, a native of Prague, Czech Republic, wins her second Vern Cox Player of the Year honor in three seasons after posting an 8-1 record at No. 1 singles. She joins Alena Mukdaprakorn and Amber Chandronnait as the only Penmen to win multiple Player of the Year honors and it marks the third-straight season that a SNHU student-athlete has won the award (Hubickova in 2021 spring, Natalie Kallmunzerova in 2021 fall). Hubickova also earned First Team All-Conference at No 1 singles and Second Team All-Conference at No. 1 doubles with partner Alexxa Etienne.
Selmer Gilje is the first Adelphi player since Stefani Lineva in 2014 to win NE10 Rookie of the Year honors. Gilje, a Second Team selection at No. 1 singles and All-Rookie Team member, was 4-1 this season at the top individual flight for the Panthers. In late September, Gilje became the first Adelphi student-athlete to win the ITA East Region title and recently competed at the ITA Cup in Rome, Ga.
Coache, now in his 16th season as head coach of SNHU, led the Penmen to a perfect 9-0 record in NE10 matches – their first undefeated conference season since 2013, when they last held sole possession of the NE10 regular season championship. It is the sixth time that Coache has earned NE10 Coach of the Year honors. SNHU is the top seed in the NE10 Women's Tennis Championship, which continues on Friday in the semifinal round.
Among SNHU's selections were first-year player Alina Kupfer, who earned First Team at No. 2 singles and No. 2 doubles. The Penmen had a league-best four players named to the First Team, including Guntra Upeniece at No. 6 singles. Overall, 13 NE10 student-athletes earned All-Conference recognition at both singles and doubles.
The NE10 Women's Tennis Championship continues on Friday with the semifinals, as No. 1 SNHU hosts No. 5 Adelphi and No. 2 Franklin Pierce welcomes No. 3 Le Moyne. For the full schedule and all other championship information, click HERE.
The NE10 Player of the Year award is named in honor of former longtime Springfield College head coach Vern Cox.
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Vern Cox Player of the Year
Magdalena Hubickova, Southern New Hampshire
Rookie of the Year
Sanne Selmer Gilje, Adelphi
Coach of the Year
Greg Coache, Southern New Hampshire
FIRST TEAM
No. 1 Singles: Magdalena Hubickova, Southern New Hampshire
No. 2 Singles: Alina Kupfer, Southern New Hampshire
No. 3 Singles: Ana Platisa, Franklin Pierce
No. 4 Singles: Paula Casares, Le Moyne
No. 5 Singles: Julia Kielan, Adelphi
No. 6 Singles: Guntra Upeniece, Southern New Hampshire
No. 1 Doubles: Karim Carreras/Valentinna Ferrarini, New Haven
No. 2 Doubles: Alina Kupfer/Verena Weindl, Southern New Hampshire
No. 3 Doubles: Alicia Alvarez/Paula Casares, Le Moyne
SECOND TEAM
No. 1 Singles: Sanne Selmer Gilje, Adelphi
No. 2 Singles: Liria Loria, Franklin Pierce
No. 3 Singles: Alexxa Etienne, Southern New Hampshire
No. 4 Singles: Verena Weindl, Southern New Hampshire
No. 5 Singles: Francesca Lilliegren, Le Moyne / Isabella Andrade, Southern New Hampshire
No. 6 Singles: Fiona Pepper, Le Moyne
No. 1 Doubles: Alexxa Etienne/Magdalena Hubickova, Southern New Hampshire
No. 2 Doubles: Isabella Barona/Fiona Pepper, Le Moyne
No. 3 Doubles: Isabella Andrade/Guntra Upeniece, Southern New Hampshire
THIRD TEAM
No. 1 Singles: Valentinna Ferrarini, New Haven
No. 2 Singles: Karim Carreras, New Haven
No. 3 Singles: Alicia Alvarez, Le Moyne
No. 4 Singles: Zoe Asterio Correa, Franklin Pierce
No. 5 Singles: Camila Heredia Osante, Saint Anselm
No. 6 Singles: Jenelle Downer, Adelphi
No. 1 Doubles: Liria Loria/Ana Platisa, Franklin Pierce
No. 2 Doubles: Maria Penalver Aguilo/Aynara Ferraz, Franklin Pierce
No. 3 Doubles: Kacie Banks/Alexa Orlando, New Haven
ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
Sanne Selmer Gilje, Adelphi
Alicia Alvarez, Le Moyne
Paula Casares, Le Moyne
Valentinna Ferrarini, New Haven
Irene Garbo, Saint Anselm
Camila Heredia Osante, Saint Anselm
Alina Kupfer, Southern New Hampshire
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