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Four Dores Honored At SEC Men’s Tennis Awards Banquet 4/22/2004
Four Dores Honored At SEC Men’s Tennis Awards Banquet NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four members of the Vanderbilt men’s tennis team were named All-Southeastern Conference at an awards banquet Wednesday evening held by the league on the eve of the SEC Tournament. Senior Chad Harris was named first-team All-SEC, while senior Zach Dailey and juniors Scott Brown and Matt Lockin earned second-team All-SEC honors. Additionally, Dailey was named to the league’s Good Works Team. The first-team All-SEC honor for Harris is his second in as many years. The Aurora, Colo., native ended the regular season ranked No. 23 nationally by the ITA. This season, he has earned key wins over then-No. 8 Adrians Zguns and No. 19 Hamid Mirzadeh to boost his national ranking after sitting out most of the fall recovering from off-season back surgery. Brown and Lockin both earned second-team All-SEC honors in 2003. Brown opened the dual-match season by winning 15 of his first 16 matches and has posted an 8-3 record in SEC play. Lockin’s 9-2 league mark is the best by a Commodore this season. The two juniors hold the same 17-6 overall singles record in dual-match play. Dailey earned second-team All-SEC honors for the first time in his career. During the 2003-04 campaign, Dailey leads the Commodores with 26 singles victories. He excels both on and off the court, and also was named to the SEC Good Works Team. The Memphis product has organized service projects at the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, the Ronald McDonald House and the Susan Gray School while a two-year member of VU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Billy Chadwick, head coach of 2004 SEC Champion Ole Miss, won Coach of the Year honors and Rebel junior Catalin Gard was recognized as the league’s Player of the Year. Georgia’s John Isner was named the Freshman of the Year, while Florida’s Hamid Mirzadeh and LSU’s Bryan Fisher were Co-Scholar-Athletes of the Year. |
