ELON, N.C.—Winthrop sophomore Clayton Almeida captured four awards, including 2003 Big South Conference Men’s Tennis Player of the Year, during the league’s banquet Wednesday night at Elon University where the conference championships are being held beginning today at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center.
Almeida, a Brazil native, has now been voted Big South Conference Player of the Year twice. Last year’s conference freshman of the year also added a All-Big South singles award, All-Big South doubles award and All-Academic Team honor to his portfolio. He led the Eagles to the number one seed in this week’s conference tournament as Winthrop finished the regular season with a 6-1 Big South record and overall 13-3 slate.
Joining Almeida on the post-season honors list were teammates Michael Kweicien, a junior from Warsaw, Poland, who earned a spot on the All-Big South singles team and his doubles partner, Adam Narczewski, a junior from Goynia, Poland. Both Kweicien and Narczewski were honored as All-Big South performers for the second straight year.
A complete list of the 2003 Men’s Big South Conference Tennis Awards are as follows:
Men's All-Big South Singles Team:
Santiago Falla, Charleston Southern University
Arnaud Caffin, Coastal Carolina University
Pramote Malasitt, Elon University
Chris Archer, High Point University
Braen Aneiros, Liberty
Alan Ambrose, UNC Asheville
Clayton Almeida, Winthrop University
Michael Kwiecien, Winthrop University
Men's Double's All-Conference:
Santiago Falla/Rodrigo Villarroel, Charleston Southern University
Pramote Malasitt/Richard Dutton, Elon University
Ricardo Shinozaki/Luis Rino, Liberty
Clayton Almeida/Adam Narczewski, Winthrop University
Men's Co-Freshmen of the Year:
Chris Archer, High Point University
Braen Aneiros, Liberty
Men's Player or the Year:
Clayton Almeida, Winthrop University
Men's Coach of the Year:
Jerry Tertzagian, High Point University
Men’s All-Academic Team:
Nils Hanchen, Birmingham-Southern College
Santiago Falla, Charleston Southern University
Arnaud Caffin, Coastal Carolina University
Pramote Malasitt, Elon University
Thomas Sjoberg, High Point University
Ernesto Malagrino, Liberty University
Dominic Soeur, Radford University
Alan Ambrose, UNC Asheville
Clayton Almeida, Winthrop University
Men's Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year:
Arnaud Caffin, Coastal Carolina University
