Morningside men's tennis sweeps conference honors

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – The Mustangs had ten individuals receive all-conference honors, including Mark Trenkle as the GPAC Men's Tennis Player of the Year and Alex Struck as the GPAC Coach of the Year. 

Trenkle, a junior from Lahr, Germany, played No. 1 singles and doubles for the Mustangs in conference play. He went 6-0 at No. 1 singles during GPAC play and finished the season with a 20-5 record overall. In doubles action, Trenkle and his teammate, Gustav Sjoberg went 5-1 in GPAC play and were 16-9 overall this season. Trenkle and Sjoberg were all-conference in No. 1 doubles as well.

All six singles competitors and three doubles teams were all conference this season for the Mustangs. Outside of Trenkle in singles, Santiago Minetti (Fr., Buenos Aires, Argentina), Skander Ben Abdallah (Sr., Tunis Tunisia), Sjoberg (Fr., Vetlanda, Sweden), Mikhil Raja (So., Belvedere Harare, Zimbabwe), and Joao Pedro Pierry Izoldi Costa (So., Santos, Brazil) were all conference at their respective flights.

Minetti went a perfect 6-0 at No. 2 singles in GPAC play and was 20-6 overall this season. Skander Ben Abdallah was undefeated at 6-0 at No. 3 singles in the GPAC regular season and finished his season with a 22-4 record, including a 17-1 record at No. 3 singles. 

Sjoberg was 6-0 in GPAC play at No. 4 singles and went 23-3 this season. Morningside's No. 5 singles all-conference athlete is Raja, who also went 6-0 in GPAC play and was 15-8 this season. Costa went 6-0 at No. 6 singles in conference play and went 13-1 this season. He is on a 13-match winning streak.

Trenkle and Sjoberg earned Morningside's No. 1 doubles all-conference. The duo of Minetti and Ben Abdallah went 6-0 in the regular season against GPAC opponents at No. 2 doubles to receive all-conference honors. At No. 3 doubles, Winyou Asavaruangchai (Sr., Udon Thani, Thailand) and Abhishek Mohapatra (So., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India) went 5-0 against GPAC opponents to receive all-conference honors.

Alex Struck earned the conference's Coach of the Year award this season, leading the team to a perfect 6-0 record in conference play. The Mustangs didn't drop a point during the regular season, and won the first conference regular season and tournament championships in program history. 

The Mustangs are in action at the NAIA Tournament on May 14 against William Woods at 10 a.m. in Mobile, Alabama.