{"id":269883,"date":"2026-04-28T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:37:10","slug":"laydner-lands-on-all-conference-tennis-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/269883\/","title":{"rendered":"Laydner Lands on All-Conference Tennis Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON, Texas \u2013 After a stellar regular season that saw numerous program records fall, junior tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/carolina-laydner\/7407\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7407\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Laydner<\/a> was recognized for her efforts by being named an All-Conference selection by the American, the league announced Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLaydner becomes the first student-athlete in program history to be recognized as an All-Conference player since UNT joined the league in the 2023-24 academic year. She was also one of just five players in the conference to earn unanimous selection to the team by the coaches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis season, Laydner has posted an impressive 15-3 overall record while going 11-2 at line one and 4-1 at line two. Her .833 overall win percentage as well as her .846 win percentage at line one are both single season program records.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn addition, Laydner also posted 13 victories in doubles this season with a 6-3 mark at line two and a 7-5 record at line three. One of the most consistent options in the American, Laydner played in both singles and doubles in every match for North Texas this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHer efforts on the court helped UNT win 17 total matches on the year, the most of any team since 2013 as well as setting a program record with 12 home victories.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is Laydner&#8217;s second honor from the conference this season after being named American Conference Player of the Week on April 21 for her remarkable play leading into postseason play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2026 American Conference Women&#8217;s Tennis Postseason Honors<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPlayer of the Year<br \/>\nXin Tong Wang, Jr., Wichita State<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFreshman of the Year<br \/>\nCarolina Alonso, Tulsa<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCoach of the Year<br \/>\nElizabeth Schmidt, Rice<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll-Conference Team<br \/>\nSara Suchankova, Jr., Charlotte<br \/>\nNi Xi, So., Charlotte*<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/carolina-laydner\/7407\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7407\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Laydner<\/a>, Jr., North Texas*<br \/>\nSofiia Mykhailets, So., Memphis<br \/>\nDivna Ratkovic, Jr., Rice*<br \/>\nDarya Schwartzman, Sr., Rice<br \/>\nSummer Chandler, So., Tulane<br \/>\nCampbell Ricci, So., Tulane<br \/>\nCarolina Alonso, Fr., Tulsa<br \/>\nTheodora Chantava, Sr., Wichita State<br \/>\nGiorgia Roselli, Jr., Wichita State*<br \/>\nXin Tong Wang, Jr., Wichita State*<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; GMG &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON, Texas \u2013 After a stellar regular season that saw numerous program records fall, junior tennis player Carolina&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-269883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}