Vicky Maes Named MW Coach of the Year

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — After a record-breaking season that saw the New Mexico Lobos win its first Mountain West regular season title in women’s tennis, Vicky Maes has been voted as the Mountain West Coach of the Year in a vote of the league’s coaches and announced by MW officials.  She becomes the only the second Lobo women’s tennis head coach to be named MW Coach of the Year, joining Kathy Kolankiewicz in 2004.

The Lobos went 19-3 for the season, with the winning percentage of .864 a school record.  The team opened the season on a 10-match winning streak, the second-longest season opening streak in school history, and UNM won the outright title by going 8-1 in league play, clinching the title with a 4-0 shutout win at Air Force.  During the season, three Lobos, Leonie Hoppe, Katherine Jhang and Husan Huang, all earned back-to-back-to-back Player of the Week honors, the first time that UNM had ever earned three straight Mountain West Player of the Week honors, let alone from three different players.

UNM’s team had a pair of 20-match winners in singles and four 20-match winners in doubles, and three players earned All-Mountain West honors.