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![]() The Brown women's tennis team was one of 102 women's tennis teams in the country to earn the ITA All-Academic Team award, while six different members of the team are among 499 student-athletes across the country to earn ITA Scholar-Athlete status. Brown was one of six Ivy League teams to earn the team honor, while leading the lead with six scholar-athlete selections. Dartmouth had five, while Princeton had four honorees. Yale (3), Columbia (2), and Cornell (2) rounded out the Ivy League's 22 selections. (MORE) ![]() Aboubakare Named ITA East Regional Rookie of the Year Brown women's tennis standout Bianca Aboubakare (Orange, CA) has been named the 2008 ITA East Regional Rookie of the Year. Aboubakare adds this honor to an impressive list that includes Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Brown's Outstanding First Year Female Athlete. (MORE) ![]() Aboubakare in Named Unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year Brown women's tennis standout Bianca Aboubakare (Orange, CA) has been unanimously named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in a vote by the League's eight coaches. In addition to earning Rookie of the Year honors, Aboubakare was one of four players to earn First Team All-Ivy unanimously, and half of the only doubles pair, joining with freshman Marisa Schonfeld (Washington, DC), to earn First Team All-Ivy unanimously. She and Yale's Janet Kim, the Ivy Player of the Year, were the only two players in the Ivy League to earn First Team All-Ivy honors in both singles and doubles. Since the Ivy League began honoring outstanding athletes with Player and Rookie of the Year honors in 1995, Aboubakare is Brown's first-ever Rookie of the Year and the first player since Trishna Patel '98 (1997 Player of the Year) to earn one of the two major awards. (MORE) Bears Close Season with 4-3 Victory over Harvard Bears Fall to Dartmouth, 4-3 Bears Edged by Cornell, 4-3; Sweep Columbia to earn Weekend Split Bears Fall to #63 Penn, 5-2 Princeton Edges Bears, 4-3 |
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