Tusculum Leads SAC Men’s Tennis Award Winners

ROCK HILL, S.C. – Tusculum accounted for all three of the major SAC men's tennis regular season awards that were announced on Wednesday, with Lukas Winkelmann being named Player of the Year, Nicolas Planchard as Freshman of the Year and Tommy Arnett as the league's Coach of the Year.

The Pioneers went 8-1 in SAC matches this season, earning share of the conference title with Anderson. TC finished the regular season 14-4 overall.

Winkelmann - last season's SAC Freshman of the Year - went 16-1 playing at the No. 1 position for Tusculum. He was unbeaten in singles play in conference matches, and has won 11-straight decisions heading into this week's Food Lion SAC Tennis Championship.

Winkelmann's Player of the Year selection comes a day after he was named the SAC Men's Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

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Joining Winkelmann on the All-SAC Singles First Team are Planchard, LMU's Philipp Hoffmann, Wingate's Kennedy Cancelado, Mars Hill's Lucas Simm and Tusculum's Jonas Winkelmann. Hoffmann and Jonas Winkelmann finished the season with singles records of 13-3, Planchard went 14-1, Cancelado went 13-10 and Simm went 6-8.

Hoffmann, Cancelado, Simm and Planchard played primarily at the No. 1 position this season, while Jonas Winkelmann played No. 3.

Three doubles tandems also received All-SAC First Team accolades. Tusculum's duo of Planchard and Lukas Winkelmann earned a selection to the team after going 9-5, as did LMU's pair of Hoffmann and Alexey Minevskiy, which went 7-7. Completing the First Team were Newberry's Vinicius Botelho and Michael Saunders, who partnered to finish 13-7.

All three tandems played at No. 1 doubles for their respective teams.

The All-SAC Singles Second Team was made up of Botelho, LMU's Marcelo Alvim, Carson-Newman's Juan Sebastian Perez, Mars Hill's Euquerio Guerrero, Catawba's Jess Goodall and Catawba's Alex Macdonald.

Completing the All-Conference Doubles Second Team were Anderson's Abdoulaye Camara and Jerome Branker, Wingate's Cancelado and Ryan Forbes, and LMU's Alvim and Will Sparks.

Arnett's selection as Coach of the Year marked his fourth time receiving the award in his career.

2013 SAC Men's Tennis Awards

SAC Player of the Year: Lukas Winkelmann, Tusculum

SAC Freshman of the Year: Nicolas Planchard, Tusculum

SAC Coach of the Year: Tommy Arnett, Tusculum

All-SAC First Team

Singles

Lukas Winkelmann, TC #

Philipp Hoffmann, LMU *%$

Kennedy Cancelado, WU

Lucas Simm, MHC #&

Jonas Winkelmann, TC

Nicolas Planchard, TC

Doubles

Vinicius Botelho/Michael Saunders, NEW ^

Lukas Winkelmann/Nicolas Planchard, TC

Philipp Hoffmann/Alexey Minevskiy, LMU

All-SAC Second Team

Singles

Vinicius Botelho, NEW #%

Marcelo Alvim, LMU

Juan Sebastian Perez, C-N

Euquerio Guerrero, MHC #

Jess Goodall, CAT

Alex Macdonald, CAT

Doubles

Abdoulaye Camara/Jerome Branker, AU

Kennedy Cancelado/Ryan Forbes, WU

Will Sparks/Marcelo Alvim, LMU