{"id":499779,"date":"2026-02-26T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:50:08","slug":"noah-johnston-named-sec-co-freshman-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499779\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Johnston Named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ga. &#8212;\u00a0University of Georgia men&#8217;s tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiadogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/noah-johnston\/10210\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10210\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Johnston<\/a> has been named the Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman of the Week following his performances in the Bulldogs&#8217; upsets over LSU and Florida.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJohnston, a native of Anderson, S.C., was the first singles match off the court against then- No. 5 LSU and was the first Bulldog to add a point in singles for Georgia against then- No. 15 Florida.\u00a0\u00a0He held his opponent to four games or fewer per set in both matches. Additionally, he and partner <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiadogs.com\/sports\/mens-tennis\/roster\/derrick-chen\/10206\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10206\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Chen<\/a> won their doubles match against Florida on court three, contributing to the Bulldogs claiming the doubles point.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollowing the upsets, Georgia cracked its way into the top-25, landing at No. 13 in this week&#8217;s ITA rankings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJohnston and the Bulldogs travel to Texas this week for their first SEC road test.\u00a0\u00a0Georgia will face No. 14 Texas A&amp;M on Friday in College Station before heading to Austin for a match against No. 4 Texas on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Ga. &#8212;\u00a0University of Georgia men&#8217;s tennis player Noah Johnston has been named the Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-499779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}