SUWANEE, Ga. - In exclusive voting by the head coaches in the league, Claire Mesnil of Hendrix College has been selected the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Women's Tennis Player-of-the-Year. In that same balloting, DePauw University's Scott Riggle was voted Women's Coach-of-the-Year.
Mesnil, a first-year player from Avignon, France posted a 19-2
singles record (16-3 doubles) and was ranked second in the West
region in singles play. In the fall, Mesnil won the Intercollegiate
Tennis Association (ITA) Division III Southwest Region
championship. She went on to finish fifth at the ITA National Small
College Championship. Mesnil became the first Hendrix player
(men’s or women’s) to be named SCAC Player-of-the-Year.
She finished the regular season 7-0 against SCAC opponents in
singles play.
For the fifth time in seven years, DePauw’s Riggle has been
recognized by his peers as the SCAC Women’s Tennis
Coach-of-the-Year. Only Butch Newman of Trinity (eight times) has
more women’s tennis COTY awards than Riggle. Riggle’s
12th-ranked Tigers earned their second straight SCAC title after
defeating 22nd-ranked Trinity, 9-0, in the SCAC championship match.
Riggle has compiled a 161-64 record in nine seasons at DePauw,
including this year’s 16-8 mark, and led the Tigers to the
NCAA Tournament for the fifth consecutive year.
For the complete 2009 SCAC Women's Tennis all-conference team, click here.
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