The Conference announced the All-Big 12 teams, position champions and individual yearly awards for the 2024 Big 12 tennis season.
Texas swept the men’s awards highlighted by Eliot Spizzirri winning his second consecutive Big 12 Player of the Year accolade. Gilles-Arnaud Bailly took home Big 12 Freshman of the Year to give the Longhorns the award for the third time in the last four seasons. Jonah Braswell earned the first Big 12 Newcomer of the Year award for the Longhorns since 2008 (Ed Corrie). Bruce Berque completed the sweep for Texas as he received his third career Big 12 Coach of the Year, also receiving the distinction in 2019 and 2021.
On the women’s side, Oklahoma State accumulated three of the four yearly awards. Ange Oby Kajuru became the fourth Cowgirl in program history to earn Big 12 Player of the Year and the first since 2021. Olivia Lincer captured Big 12 Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Year for UCF and OSU’s Anastasiya Komar received Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Chris Young rounded out the women’s awards with his second career Big 12 Coach of the Year after leading OSU to an undefeated regular season.
Spizzirri entered the Conference championship ranked No. 1 in the ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings for the second consecutive year. He is 26-4 on the season with a 18-3 dual matches record with a 5-1 mark against Big 12 opponents. He is the first to win the award outright in consecutive years since Costin Paval (Oklahoma) did so in 2012-13.
Kajuru joins Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (2021), Viktoriya Lushkova (2015) and Marla Phillips (2001) as the only Cowgirls to win the women’s newcomer award. She finished the year 34-7 in singles, including an 18-3 record in the spring, with six wins over nationally ranked opponents to keep her in the top 10 of the ITA singles rankings the entire season.
Gilles-Arnaud Bailly joined his teammate and brother Pierre-Yves Baily as the only brothers to win Big 12 Men’s Tennis Freshman of the Year after Pierre-Yves won the award in 2022. The undeclared freshman recorded a 17-3 overall mark and finished a perfect 5-0 in Conference play.
Lincer became the first Knight to win a yearly award in UCF’s debut season in the Conference. The Klodzko, Poland native won four of her final five matches of the regular season at the No. 3’s position.
Braswell became the second Longhorn in program history to secure Big 12 Men’s Tennis Newcomer of the Year. The sophomore transfer from Florida finished the season 16-5 overall in singles and 8-2 in dual matches.
Komar became the fourth Cowgirl to be awarded the Big 12 Women’s Tennis Newcomer of the Year distinction and the second in three years for the Cowgirls. The redshirt sophomore who transferred from LSU, went 26-11 on the year and 12-6 in spring season. She will make her second appearance in both the NCAA singles and doubles individual championships.
Berque received his first Coach of the Year honor since 2021 after leading Texas to its first Big 12 Championship title since 2018 and second consecutive regular season title. The Longhorns won their third regular season title in five seasons and finished league play undefeated for the sixth time in program history.
Young was named the Big 12 Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year for the first time since 2016. He led OSU to its first Big 12 Women’s Tennis regular season title outright since 2016. Under Young’s tutelage, the Cowgirls joined Baylor and Texas as the third program in Conference history to finish undefeated multiple times after a 9-0 league record in 2016. Oklahoma State also finished the regular season with a perfect 24-0 record to mark the first time in program history to not record a regular-season loss.
The Oklahoma State women led the way with seven All-Big 12 selections in singles and doubles. OSU’s Ange Oby Kajuru and Anastasiya Komar were named unanimously for both singles and doubles by a vote by the league’s head coaches. The Big 12 position champion awards, which are awarded to those individuals who finish with the most victories in a position (minimum of three matches for men, and six matches for women) are listed below.
Men’s Awards
Men’s Tennis Player of the Year – Eliot Spizzirri, Texas*
Men’s Tennis Freshman of the Year – Gilles-Arnaud Bailly, Texas
Men’s Tennis Newcomer of the Year – Jonah Braswell, Texas
Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year – Bruce Berque, Texas
All-Big 12 First Team Singles
Alex Martinez, Oklahoma*
Tyler Zink, Oklahoma State
Eliot Spizzirri, Texas*
Micah Braswell, Texas*
Jake Fearnley, TCU*
Jack Pinnington, TCU*
All-Big 12 First Team Doubles
Eliot Spizzirri/Siem Woldeab, Texas*
Isaac Becroft/Tyler Zink, Oklahoma State
Alex Martinez/Baptiste Anselmo, Oklahoma
All-Big 12 Second Team Singles
Tadeas Paroulek, Baylor
Kholo Montsi, Oklahoma
Isaac Becroft, Oklahoma State
Pedro Vives, TCU
Gilles-Arnaud Bailly, Texas
Olle Wallin, Texas Tech
All-Big 12 Second Team Doubles
Tadeas Paroulek/Zsombor Velcz, Baylor
Sebastian Gorzny/Pedro Vives, TCU
Sebastian Abboud/Piotr Pawlak, Texas Tech
Men’s Tennis Individual Season Position Champions
Men’s Doubles Champions
No. 1 Tadeas Paroulek/Zsombor Velcz, Baylor (3 wins)
Zach Fuchs/Wally Thayne, BYU (3 wins)
Baptiste Anselmo/Alex Martinez, Oklahoma (3 wins)
Isaac Becroft/Tyler Zink, Oklahoma State (3 wins)
Eliot Spizzirri/Siem Woldeab, Texas (3 wins)
No. 2 Pierre-Yves Bailly/Eshan Talluri, Texas (4 wins)
No. 3 Tomas Jirousek/ Kaj Quirijns, TCU (4 wins)
Asahi Harazaki/Hank Trondson, Oklahoma (4 wins)
Men’s Singles Champions
No. 1 Alex Martinez, Oklahoma (5 wins)
Eliot Spizzirri, Texas (5 wins)
No. 2 Kholo Montsi, Oklahoma (4 wins)
Pedro Vives, TCU (4 wins)
Micah Braswell, Texas (4 wins)
No. 3 Gilles-Arnaud Bailly, Texas (4 wins)
No. 4 Luis Alvarez, Oklahoma (6 wins)
No. 5 Cleeve Harper, Texas (4 wins)
No. 6 Mark Mandlik, Oklahoma (4 wins)
Women’s Awards
Women’s Tennis Player of the Year – Ange Oby Kajuru, OSU
Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Year – Olivia Lincer, UCF
Women’s Tennis Newcomer of the Year – Anastasiya Komar, OSU
Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year – Chris Young, OSU
All-Big 12 First Team Singles
Sophia Biolay, UCF
Julia Garcia Ruiz, Oklahoma
Dana Guzman, Oklahoma
Ange Oby Kajuru, Oklahoma State*
Anastasiya Komar, Oklahoma State*
Lucia Peyre, Oklahoma State
Malaika Rapolu, Texas
Cristina Tiglea, Texas Tech
All-Big 12 First Team Doubles
Dana Guzman/Roisin Gilheany, Oklahoma
Anastasiya Komar/Ange Oby Kajuru, Oklahoma State*
Malaika Rapolu/Tanya Sasnouskaya, Texas
Metka Komac/Avelina Sayfetdinova, Texas Tech*
All-Big 12 Second Team Singles
Miska Kadleckova, Baylor
Bobo Huang, BYU
Noel Saidenova, UCF
Safiya Carrington, Oklahoma State
Ayumi Miyamoto, Oklahoma State
Destinee Martins, TCU
Charlotte Chavatipon, Texas
Tanya Sasnouskaya, Texas
All-Big 12 Second Team Doubles
Kendall Kovick/Emilee Astle, BYU
Julia Garcia-Ruiz/Zdena Safarova, Oklahoma
Ayumi Miyamoto/Raquel Gonzalez, Oklahoma State
Jade Otway/Isabel Pascual, TCU
All-Freshman Team
Olivia Lincer, UCF
Kyoka Kubo, Kansas
Maralgoo Chogsomjav, Kansas State
Charlotte Keitel, Kansas State
Chloe Noel, Oklahoma
Raquel Caballero, TCU
Women’s Tennis Individual Season Position Champions
Women’s Doubles
No. 1 Malaika Rapolu/Tanya Sasnouskaya, Texas (10 wins)
Metka Komac/Avelina Sayfetdinova, Texas Tech (10 wins)
No. 2 Mariya Polishchuk/Cristina Tiglea, Texas Tech (10 wins)
No. 3 Ava Catanzarite/Chloe Noel, Oklahoma (8 wins)
Women’s Singles
No. 1 Bobo Huang, BYU (8 wins)
Julia Garcia Ruiz, Oklahoma (8 wins)
No. 2 Ange Oby Kajuru, Oklahoma State (9 wins)
No. 3 Lucia Peyre, Oklahoma State (7 wins)
Charlotte Chavatipon, Texas (7 wins)
No. 4 Taisiya Pachkaleva, Texas (8 wins)
No. 5 Vivian Ovrootsky, Texas (8 wins)
No. 6 Andreea Lila, Texas Tech (7 wins)
Emma Staker, Oklahoma (7 wins)
*- indicates unanimous