UNO’s Klein Named Southland Men’s Tennis Student-Athlete of the Year
FRISCO, Texas – New Orleans’ Johannes Klein is the 2021 Southland Conference Men’s Tennis Student-Athlete of the Year, the league announced Wednesday with its all-academic teams. Student-Athlete of the Year awards are presented by
GEICO.
The senior from Witterschlich, Germany, owns a 3.90 GPA in accounting and boasted a perfect 5-0 mark in conference singles play en route to first-team all-conference honors. It also marks the third all-academic honor for his career.
Lamar earned the most selections on the all-academic teams (four), followed by Texas A&M-Corpus Christi with three. UIW and New Orleans garnered a pair of spots each, and Abilene Christian rounded out the list with one honoree.
Klein leads a trio of three-time all-academic picks, along with Lamar’s Nico Mayr and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi’s Kyohei Yamanaka. Abilene Christian’s Riley Tran, UIW’s Dennis Boisseau and Lamar’s Carlos Paton Canal and Joshua Taylor received their second career all-academic nod.
The average GPA of the honorees is 3.80, and eight individuals boast a mark of 3.80 or higher, including three with a perfect 4.00.
The all-academic teams are voted on by the head coach, sports information director and an academic/compliance staff member from each institution. Student-athletes must possess a 3.0 cumulative GPA and have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to qualify for All-Academic selection.
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.
2021 Southland Men’s Tennis Student-Athlete of the Year: Johannes Klein, New Orleans
2021 Southland Men’s Tennis All-Academic First Team
| Name |
School |
Class |
Hometown |
Major |
GPA |
| Johannes Klein^*3 |
New Orleans |
Sr. |
Witterschlich, Germany |
Accounting |
3.90 |
| Axel Vila Antuna* |
Lamar |
So. |
Valencia, Spain |
Finance |
3.35 |
| Dennis Boisseau2 |
UIW |
Sr. |
Cognac, France |
Accounting |
4.00 |
| Max Heinzel* |
New Orleans |
So. |
Augsburg, Germany |
Business Administration |
3.90 |
| Pascal Lorieul* |
A&M-Corpus Christi |
So. |
Cormeilles-En-Parisis, France |
Biomedical Science |
4.00 |
| Nathan Schwartz |
A&M-Corpus Christi |
Fr. |
L’Isle Sur Sorgue, France |
Business |
4.00 |
2021 Southland Men’s Tennis All-Academic Second Team
| Name |
School |
Class |
Hometown |
Major |
GPA |
| Carlos Paton Canal2 |
Lamar |
Jr. |
Puertollano, Spain |
General Business |
3.44 |
| Warren Fulgenzi Jr. |
UIW |
Sr. |
Las Vegas, N.M. |
Sport Management |
3.65 |
| Nico Mayr3 |
Lamar |
Jr. |
Limburgerhof, Germany |
General Business |
3.82 |
| Joshua Taylor2 |
Lamar |
So. |
Manchester, England |
Psychology |
3.88 |
| Riley Tran2 |
Abilene Christian |
Sr. |
Colleyville, Texas |
Kinesiology |
3.95 |
| Kyohei Yamanaka3 |
A&M-Corpus Christi |
Sr. |
Chiba, Japan |
Kinesiology |
3.68 |
^Student-Athlete of the Year
*-Automatic selection
2-Two-Time All-Academic Selection
3-Three-Time All-Academic Selection