Sheehy Completes Men’s Tennis Player, Student-Athlete of the Year Sweep
FRISCO, Texas – Abilene Christian’s Josh Sheehy is the 2019 Men’s Tennis Student-Athlete of the Year, the league announced Monday with its all-academic teams. All yearly awards are presented by
Ready Nutrition.
The senior from Arlington, Texas, boasts a 3.78 GPA in accounting and financial management and adds to his trophy case after taking home Southland Conference Player of the Year honors earlier this spring. Sheehy swept his conference counterparts in the regular season en route to first-team all-league honors and went 3-1 in doubles play. He will represent the Southland at the NCAA Singles Championship May 20-25 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla.
This marks the second all-academic selection for both Sheehy and teammate Cole Lawson, also a first-team honoree. New Orleans’ Nicolas Kramer, an accounting and finance major with the lone 4.0 GPA, makes his third-straight appearance on the top squad along with fellow Privateer and accounting/finance major Johannes Klein.
Lamar general business majors Carlos Paton Canal and Nico Mayr earned first-team and second-team honors, respectively.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s Kyohei Yamanaka rounds out the first team and teammates William Mottet and Carlos Pedrosa were voted to the second team. Abilene Christian matches the Islanders with three all-academic nods, including second-team selection Sebastian Langdon. Incarnate Word student-athletes Caleb Dyer and Sebastian Mortier accompany one another on the second team.
The All-Academic teams are voted on by the head coach, sports information director and an academic/compliance staff member from each Southland Conference institution. Student-athletes must possess a 3.0 cumulative GPA, have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution and participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s competition to qualify for All-Academic selection. Nominees who were named to the All-Conference First Team are automatically named Southland All-Academic.
The Southland Conference awards committee, which consists of one administrator from each of the 13 member schools, votes for the student-athlete of the year. The Southland student-athlete of the year award is presented to one student-athlete who achieves excellence in both academics and athletics. All nominees must have earned at least a 3.2 GPA on a 4.0 scale, and demonstrated athletics achievement for at least two years at the nominating institution.
2019 Southland Men's Tennis All-Academic Teams
Student-Athlete of the Year: Josh Sheehy, Abilene Christian
First Team
| Name |
Class |
School |
Hometown |
Major |
GPA |
| Josh Sheehy^*2 |
Sr. |
Abilene Christian |
Arlington, Texas |
Accounting and Financial Management |
3.78 |
| Carlos Paton Canal* |
So. |
Lamar |
Puertollano, Spain |
General Business |
3.20 |
| Cole Lawson*2 |
Sr. |
Abilene Christian |
Spring, Texas |
Nursing |
3.61 |
| Johannes Klein* |
Jr. |
New Orleans |
Witterschlich, Germany |
Accounting/Finance |
3.94 |
| Nicolas Kramer*3 |
Sr. |
New Orleans |
Hassfurt, Germany |
Accounting/Finance |
4.00 |
| Kyohei Yamanaka* |
So. |
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi |
Chiba, Japan |
Kinesiology |
3.74 |
Second Team
| Name |
Class |
School |
Hometown |
Major |
GPA |
| Caleb Dyer |
Sr. |
Incarnate Word |
Lechlade, England |
Communication Arts |
3.03 |
| Sebastian Langdon |
Sr. |
Abilene Christian |
Grapevine, Texas |
Accounting and Financial Management |
3.55 |
| Nico Mayr |
So. |
Lamar |
Limburgerhof, Germany |
General Business |
3.73 |
| Sebastian Mortier3 |
Sr. |
Incarnate Word |
Hanau, Germany |
Biology |
3.47 |
| William Mottet |
Jr. |
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi |
Gargenville, France |
Business Management |
3.49 |
| Carlos Pedrosa3 |
Sr. |
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi |
Sevilla, Spain |
Mechanical Engineering |
3.88 |
^Student-Athlete of the Year
*-Automatic Selection
2-Two-Time All-Academic Selection
3-Three-Time All-Academic Selection