SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Roger Williams University Women's Tennis team placed five student-athletes on the All-Commonwealth Coast Conference in addition to garnering the CCC Rookie of the Year and CCC Coach of the Year awards.
Taking home the major awards for the Hawks were Head Coach
Barry Gorman with CCC Coach of the Year and freshman
Alessia Cahoon (Dedham, Mass.) with CCC Rookie of the Year. Cahoon was selected to the All-CCC First Team –Singles along with teammate
Taryn Roche (Greenlawn, N.Y.).
Emma Place (Francestown, N.H.) and
Heidi Martin (Scituate, Mass.) earned All-CCC Second Team – Singles honors, in addition to Martin being selected to the All-CCC First Team – Doubles with Cahoon.
Jessica Magliato (New Rochelle, N.Y.) made the All-CCC Third Team – Singles as well as All-CCC Third Team – Doubles with Roche.
Cahoon was a prime contributor in the Roger Williams lineup as she slid into the top spots in both singles and doubles play in her freshman year. In singles play, she went 10-2 overall including a 5-2 mark in league play. Seven of her 10 wins were straight-set victories. Cahoon had an identical record in doubles play going 10-2 overall and 5-2 in conference as a member of the Hawks No. 1 doubles pair. Cahoon was the CCC Player and Rookie of the Week in the week ending Sept. 29 and was also named the Rookie of the Week in the week ending Sept. 15.
Gorman picks up his second CCC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year honor after leading the Hawks to a 6-1 conference (11-1 overall) regular-season. The Hawks showed a three-game improvement from last year's conference results and will be the No. 2 seed in the upcoming CCC Women's Tennis Championship Tournament. The Hawks only dual match loss this season came against top-seeded Nichols. RWU is strong up and down the lineup with six of its 11 victories coming with a 9-0 score. Four others came with an 8-1 result.
Roche posted an 8-3 overall record for Roger Williams over the course of the regular season, all of which came at the #2 flight. Her eight wins is fifth-best on the team. Roche collected four wins for the Hawks in Commonwealth Coast Conference play.
Place finished the regular season with a perfect 12-0 record in singles play. Ten of her wins came at the #4 flight, with the other two coming at #3 singles. Her 12 victories lead both the team and the Commonwealth Coast Conference, in addition to leading the CCC and the team with seven CCC victories.
Martin closed out the regular season with a 9-2 record in singles play, tying for the third-most wins on the team. Her .818 singles winning percentage is tied for fourth-best on the team. Over the course of the season, Martin posted eight wins at the #3 flight, including one more win at the #2 flight.
Magliato put together a solid regular season, going 7-1 overall for the Hawks in singles play. Her .875 singles winning percentage is second-best on the squad. She ended the reguar season with four Commonwealth Coast Conference victories and a 5-1 mark at the #5 flight, in addition to two wins at #4.
At doubles, Cahoon and Martin led RWU with nine doubles wins as a pair on the season. The duo's nine victories all came in the #1 spot for the Hawks on the year. Magliato and Roche put together a 7-2 mark for Roger Williams. Their seven wins was second-best on the team, with each win coming at #2 doubles.
