{"id":677711,"date":"2026-05-18T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:27:24","slug":"eastern-tennis-lands-two-on-academic-all-mac-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677711\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Tennis Lands Two on Academic All-MAC List"},"content":{"rendered":"

YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — The Mid-American Conference announced its annual Academic All-MAC list for women’s tennis, May 18, with two members of the Eastern Michigan University program earning the academic award for the 2025-26 season. Iva Daneva<\/a> and Regina Mendez Carre\u00f1o earned their first and second academic awards, respectively, from the MAC and their second academic honor of the year after being named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team last week.
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\nThe Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests scheduled or completed. First-year students and ANY transfer students in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award. Outstanding academic and athletic accomplishments for the current season only are considered.
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\nDaneva (Kavadarci, North Macedonia\/DSU Sportska Akademija) posted a 9-12 combined record after coming off an injury that cut her freshman season short. Despite going 0-3 in singles play, she was 9-9 in doubles action, including 8-8 when paired with Mendez Carre\u00f1o throughout the dual season with two matches going unfinished despite the duo leading in their match. The two paired together from the start of the spring with their wins in the first two matches of the season, clinching the doubles point for the Eagles. Daneva also was paired with MAC Freshman of the Year Cylova Zuleyka Hukmasabiyya<\/a> (Serang, Indonesia\/SMAN 2 Kota Serang), with the team going 1-1 in MAC play, including a tough 7-6(4) decision in the season finale.
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\nCarre\u00f1o (Los Cabos, Mexico\/Picacho McGregor) was a major contributor in her senior season as she completed 28 singles and 28 doubles matches (56 combined) after playing 65 total singles and doubles matches in her first three years in Ypsilanti. She finished the 2025-26 season with 20 wins, including a 12-16 mark in singles play and an 8-20 mark in doubles. Her singles win total tied her career high (12 in 2024-25) while her doubles victories more than doubled the seven she accumulated previously. Additionally, she won her first MAC singles match with a 6-3, 6-2 home win over Isabella Righi of Northern Illinois University while she posted two wins in doubles action against MAC foes after having not played in a conference doubles match in her first three seasons.
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\nOverall, the two honors attained brought the program’s total to 56 while Daneva became the 36th different Eastern player to be honored. By earning her second award, Mendez Carre\u00f1o became the 16th Eastern player to garner multiple Academic All-MAC awards in a career.<\/p>\n

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\n2026 Women’s Tennis Academic All-MAC Team
\nBall State
\nAlana Bristow, Sophomore, Financial Analysis, 3.933
\nSydney Hrehor, Senior, Biology, 3.442
\nSarah Shahbaz, Junior, International Business + Accounting, 3.886
\nIsabel Tanjuatco, Junior, Business Administration, 3.967
\nJemima Williams-Phillips, Political Science, 3.9117
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\nBowling Green
\nLeticia Fonseca, Senior, Exercise Science, 4.000
\nQianyu Liu, Junior, Sport Management, 3.923
\nKonstantina Adamopoulou, Junior, Pre-Exercise Science, 3.727
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\nBuffalo
\nEsmee Anrdresen, Graduate Student, Master of Business Administration, 3.52
\nBlanca Berges, Sophomore, Business Administration, 3.86
\nMaria Glowacka, Sophomore, Business Administration\/ Finance, 3.87
\nJulia Laspro, Junior, Biomedical Sciences, 3.599
\nLiv Roestel, Sophomore, Business Administration, 3.93
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\nEastern Michigan
\nIva Daneva<\/a>, Sophomore, Exercise Science, 3.88
\nRegina Mendez Carre\u00f1o, Senior, Exercise Science, 3.51
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\nMassachusetts
\nElla Faessler, Senior, Biology, 3.94
\nRenata Farima, Graduate Student, Management (MSBA), 4.00

\nMartina Pavissich, Sophomore, Education & Psychology, 3.80
\nAmelia Tye, Junior, Marketing, 3.70
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\nMiami
\nMaria Luisa Oliveira, Sophomore, Business, 3.72
\nAvery Voss, Sophomore, Marketing, 3.66
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\nNorthern Illinois
\nIrmak Budak, Sophomore, Psychology, 3.349
\nJenna Horne, Senior, Finance, 3.355
\nTheodora Kousiou, Sophomore, Kinesiology, 3.652
\nNataly Ninova, Senior Manufacturing Engineering Technology, 3.41
\nIsabella Righi, Senior, Biomedical Engineering, 3.907
\nLucia Yecora, Sophomore, Kinesiology, 3.415
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\nToledo
\nNeha Guru, Sophomore, Business, 3.954
\nJone Ibanez, Junior, Bioengineering, 3.619
\nAnnika Munson, Sophomore, Biology, 3.911
\nGaby Rondon, Junior, Marketing, 3.769
\nJJ Scholten, Sophomore, Neuroscience, 3.884
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\nWestern Michigan
\nLola Glantz, Grad Student, PSYCHOLOGY: IND\/ ORG BEHVR MGMT, 4.0
\nAudrey Smitek, Senior, Accounting, 3.89
\nPolina Khotko, Grad Student, Exercise Science, 3.36
\nJulia Frazier, Junior, Sport Management, 3.58
\nFrida Weijerman, Sophomore, Pre-Marketing, 3.83
\nSienna Osborne, Sophomore, EXERCISE SCI: CLINICAL\/ PREPOF, 3.69
\nMarielou Baudouin, Sophomore EXERCISE SCI: CLINICAL\/ PREPOF, 3.79
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\nEastern Michigan’s All-Time Academic All-MAC Honorees

\n36 Eagles with 56 awards earned

\nBarcelo Almoyna, Alejandra \u2022 2017, 2018

\nBrichackova, Sabina \u2022 2023, 2024, 2025

\nBrown, Rhonda \u2022 1989

\nD’Amelio, Lisa \u2022 2003

\nDaneva, Iva \u2022 2026

\nDanielak, Tina \u2022 1997, 1998

\nEloundou, Linda \u2022 2024

\nFrankowski, Vanessa \u2022 2008

\nFriedrichs, Daphne \u2022 2015

\nGamarnik, Shari \u2022 2003

\nGanesan, Vasavi \u2022 2021, 2022

\nGhdirimic, Christina \u2022 1994

\nKaercher, Denise \u2022 1987, 1988

\nKansuthi, Jean \u2022 1998

\nKhaw, Paulena \u2022 1997

\nLincaru, Amalia \u2022 2004

\nMartinovska, Andrea \u2022 2016, 2017, 2018

\nMayerova, Marie \u2022 2017, 2018

\nMebuke, Nino \u2022 2014

\nMendez Carre\u0144o, Regina \u2022 2025, 2026

\nMokelke, Naomi \u2022 1992

\nMorin, Marie \u2022 1988

\nParfenyuk, Yana \u2022 2006, 2007

\nPelayo, Luisa \u2022 2021

\nPiatek, Julia \u2022 2021

\nPommiers, Emma-Lou \u2022 2021, 2022

\nPopma, Isabelle \u2022 2021, 2022

\nPrince, Stacy \u2022 1996

\nQuiroz, Andrea \u2022 2024

\nSaenko, Kseniia \u2022 2025

\nSharma, Renu \u2022 2016, 2017

\nShved, Daniella \u2022 2024

\nSupejova, Klara \u2022 2014, 2015, 2016

\nVeleva, Anna \u2022 2016, 2017

\nVichare, Prerna \u2022 2023, 2024, 2025

\nWhitney, Grace \u2022 2021, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — The Mid-American Conference announced its annual Academic All-MAC list for women’s tennis, May 18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-677711","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\/677711","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=677711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}