Three Gulls earn All-TCCC honors
April 21, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Endicott College men's tennis players Josh Schoen (Phoenix, Ariz.), Dan Murray (Coventry, R.I.) and Scott Teller (Granville, N.Y.) were all named to The Commonwealth Coast Conference All-TCCC teams as announced by the Conference offices on Tuesday afternoon. The Gulls currently sit at 11-5 overall and 7-2 in the TCCC as Endicott prepares for their TCCC Semifinals matchup with Salve Regina University in the upcoming days.
Josh Schoen was named to the All-TCCC First Team for his efforts this season while Dan Murray was named to the All-TCCC Second Team. Schoen compiled a 7-2 record at number one singles while Murray was an impressive 8-1 in number two singles in 2009. Both were honored as All-TCCC Second Team members in doubles play as the duo combined to go 4-2 at number one doubles in the TCCC.
Scott Teller earned an All-TCCC Honorable Mention nod as he went a combined 6-2 in numbers four and five singles play, including a perfect 2-0 at number four singles.
Ten different institutions from The Commonwealth Coast Conference were represented on the 2009 All-TCCC Men's Tennis Team. In addition to the all-conference team, four major individual award winners and the team sportsmanship award winner were also selected.
Roger Williams' senior Brad Bolte was named TCCC Player of the Year, Roger Williams' freshman Ryan Kim was chosen as TCCC Rookie of the Year, Western New England College senior Alex Boutin was named TCCC Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year, Roger Williams' Chris O'Brien was honored as TCCC Coach of the Year and Gordon College was the recipient of the Team Sportsmanship Award.
Voting for the All-TCCC team and each of the major awards was conducted among TCCC men's tennis coaches.
Joining Bolte and Kim on the first team for singles were Colby-Sawyer's Hart Callahan, Josh Schoen, and Salve Regina's Andrew Martin and Trey Van Buskirk.
Three first team singles players were also named first team in doubles. The Salve Regina team of Martin and Van Buskirk was joined by the Colby-Sawyer tandem of Callahan and Ben Taylor, and the Western New England duo of Brian Relihan and Mike Jones on the first team for doubles. Second-team singles selections included Relihan, Nichols' Stephen Carella, Dan Murray, and Roger Williams' Jeff DeNunzio, Dan Kleitz, and David Lange.
Second-team doubles honorees included the the Roger Williams team of Bolte and Kyle Baker, Schoen and Murray, and the Salve Regina duo of Charlie Normington and Zachary Rosenfeld.
Seven players received honorable mention in singles. Boutin and Normington were joined by Curry's Justin Levine, Scott Teller, and Nichols' Jack Baker, Dan Saucier, and Eliot Wuhrmann.
Four doubles teams also earned honorable mention, including Nichols' Carella and Oliver McNutt, Eastern Nazarene's Michael Chan and Xavier Vasquez-Gonzales, Wentworth's John Kelly and Nate Gove, and Roger Williams' Kleitz and DeNunzio.
Bolte, a senior from Augusta, N.J., enjoyed a perfect regular-season towards the top of the Hawks' singles and doubles lineups. During conference play, Bolte strung together a perfect 8-0 record at the \#1 singles position, and teamed with Kyle Baker to compile an unblemished 5-0 mark at \#2 doubles. His play and leadership were large reasons behind Roger Williams' perfect 9-0 record in TCCC regular-season play.
Kim, a freshman from Port Washington, N.Y., has made an immediate impact during his inaugural season at Roger Williams. Kim completed the regular-season undefeated in singles competition, posting a 7-0 mark in his primary \#2 position, but also stepped up to earn a victory in his only match at the \#1 spot. In doubles play, Kim and partner Jeffrey Agonia registered a 5-2 mark in regular-season conference play, going 1-0 at the \#2 spot and 4-2 at the \#3 position
Boutin, a senior from Bristol, Conn., has enjoyed a stellar college career both on and off the court. In addition to posting a 4-5 record at both the \#1 singles and \#1 doubles positions during his senior year, Boutin will graduate in May with a degree in Engineering and a perfect 4.0 grade-point average. In addition to recording a perfect GPA each semester that he has spent at Western New England, Boutin is a distinguished member of the National College Athlete Honor Society, as well as the Engineering Honor Society.
In his sixth season as Tennis Coordinator and head coach of the Roger Williams men's and women's programs, O'Brien guided the Hawks to an unblemished 9-0 TCCC record in 2008, earning the top seed for the 2009 TCCC Championship. His men's squad entered the TCCC tournament with a 14-6 overall record. O'Brien was previously recognized 2007 TCCC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year.