Date Posted: 4/19/2007

Macon, Ga. – Although she is not the first to be honored twice as the women’s tennis Player of the Year, Jacksonville’s Emese Sulyos is the first to earn the award more than once in non-consecutive seasons.

The four-time, First Team All-Conference selection was honored in 2004 as the Freshman of the Year and the Player of the Year and has once again risen to the top of the Atlantic Sun as league head coaches voted her the 2007 Player of the Year.

Sulyos, a senior from Szolnok, Hungary, recorded a 17-2 dual record during the regular season, all coming at the No. 1 singles spot, and led her team to the Altlantic Sun’s regular season title. Sulyos is currently riding a 12-match winning streak with her last loss coming against Stetson’s Virginia Galbarini.

Her loss to Galbarini is Sulyos’ only loss of the season in A-Sun competition as she compiled an 8-1 record during conference play.

For Galbarini, her win over Sulyos was one of her 14 during the season, and aided in her being selected at the Atlantic Sun’s Freshman of the Year. Galbarini finished 14-7 in regular season action, including an 8-1 record in A-Sun action.

Jacksonville also earned another individual honor, as head coach Jarod Camerota was selected by his peers as the A-Sun Coach of the Year. Camerota guided his squad to a 16-3 record which includes an 8-1 mark in league play and an 8-0 record on the Dolphins home courts. Jacksonville also claimed a share of the A-Sun’s regular season title.

Along with being tabbed the Player of the Year, Sulyos was also selected to the First Team All-Atlantic Sun for the fourth consecutive year. Sulyos is joined by second year selections Lena Willi (JU), Masha Ilina (ETSU) and Linda Johansson (Bel), along with first time honorees Scarlet Alfonzo (Cam), Breanna Atkinson (Stet), Laura Kriett (GWU) and Yevgeniya Stupak (ETSU). Combined, the team has three freshmen, two juniors and two seniors.

Galbarini headlines the second team and is joined by Florencia Torres (UNF), Natalia Sanchez (UNF), Tatitana Soldatova (JU), Olya Basula (ETSU) Elizabeth Conyer (Bel), Tara Byrne (ETSU) and Elena Volovueva (ETSU).

Six freshmen, including Atkinson, Kriett and Stupak from the first team, and Galbarini, Sanchez and Soldatova from the second team, were also placed on the All-Freshman squad. They were joined by Blanca Saenz (Cam) and Ana Surviladze (Cam).

The 2007 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Tennis Championships kick off on Friday in Johnson City, Tenn.

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