NAIA Men’s Tennis All-Americans Released
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has officially announced the 2022 NAIA Men’s Tennis All-America teams. Honorees were selected by the NAIA All-America Selection Committee. Sixteen student-athletes comprise both the first and second teams.
National champion Georgia Gwinnett led all schools with five four-team selections and six overall. Matthias Haim,
Alex Gurmendi, Agustin Tamagnone, and Valentino Caratini represented the Grizzlies on the first team while Vicente Lagos and Guilhem Perez Le Tiec were named second-team selections. Gurmendi was named the Ward-Ballinger Outstanding Player at the national championship over the weekend.
Indiana Wesleyan had the second-most selections on the first team with three. Jeremias Rocco, Martin Carrizo and Leo Sprovieri represented the Wildcats on the top team. Two student-athletes represented national championship runner-up Keiser (Fla.) on the first team. Luke Simkiss and Geronimo Barrios were both honored with first-team honors for the Seahawks. Simkiss completed his season 29-2 in singles play..
National Championship Runner-Up Keiser (Fla.), and San Diego Christian (Calif.) were also well represented on the top team with two selections. All totaled, Georgia Gwinnett leads all schools with six selections to the two teams combined. Keiser is second with five and Indiana Wesleyan’s three selections were third.
FIRST TEAM |
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Name | School | Class | Hometown |
Matthias Haim | Georgia Gwinnett | Senior | Tyrol, Austria |
Alex Gurmendi | Georgia Gwinnett | Sophomore | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Agustin Tamagnone | Georgia Gwinnett | Senior | Rio Tercero, Argentina |
Valentino Caratini | Georgia Gwinnett | Senior | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Perry Gregg | Holy Cross (Ind.) | Freshman | Chicago, Ill. |
Jeremias Rocco | Indiana Wesleyan | Freshman | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Martin Carrizo | Indiana Wesleyan | Sophomore | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Leo Sprovieri | Indiana Wesleyan | Junior | Corrientes, Argentina |
Luke Simkiss | Keiser (Fla.) | Senior | Birmingham, England |
Geronimo Barrios | Keiser (Fla.) | Senior | Santiago, Chile |
Sergio Conde | Northwestern Ohio | Junior | Tenerife, Spain |
Chris Papa | San Diego Christian (Calif.) | Senior | Cypress, Calif. |
Nick Nienhaus | San Diego Christian (Calif.) | Junior | Laboe, Schleswig Holstein, Germany |
Oscar Gabriel Ortiz | Tennessee Wesleyan | Junior | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Daniil Klimov | William Carey (Miss.) | Sophomore | Frankfurt, Germany |
Santiago Perez | Xavier (La.) | Senior | Pereira, Colombia |
SECOND TEAM |
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Name | School | Class | Hometown |
Martin Barbier | Cumberlands (Ky.) | Senior | Guadeloupe, France |
Vicente Lagos | Georgia Gwinnett | Senior | Santiago, Chile |
Guilhem Perez Le Tiec | Georgia Gwinnett | Freshman | Mont-Saint-Aignan, France |
Yassir Kiliani | Keiser (Fla.) | Freshman | Rabat, Morocco |
Soufiane El Mesbahi | Keiser (Fla.) | Junior | Tangier, Morocco |
Fred Oervad | Keiser (Fla.) | Senior | Vedbaek, Denmark |
Aleksa Ciric | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | Sophomore | Bela Palanka, Serbia |
Jan Silhavy | Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) | Sophomore | Jenikov, Czech Republic |
Adam Nagoudi | Montreat (N.C.) | Sophomore | Tunisia |
Martin Stanchev | Northwestern Ohio | Junior | Nesebar, Bulgaria |
Roy Stepanov | Southeastern (Fla.) | Fifth Year | Afula, Israel |
Patricio Gallegos | Tennessee Wesleyan | Junior | Osorno, Chile |
Gerhard Swart | Union (Ky.) | Freshman | Pretoria, South Africa |
Bruno Pessoa | Warner (Fla.) | Senior | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Anton Magnusson | William Carey (Miss.) | Freshman | Reykjavik, Iceland |
Juan Ramirez | Xavier (La.) | Senior | Cartago, Colombia |
HONORABLE MENTION |
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Name | School | Class | Hometown |
Anthony Popyrin | Arizona Christian | Junior | Marbella, Spain |
Mattis Le Montagner | Cumberlands (Ky.) | Sophomore | France |
Jakub Federowicz | Indiana Tech | Freshman | Gdynia, Poland |
Isaac Steiner | Indiana Wesleyan | Sophomore | Fort Wayne, Ind. |
Karl Wurth | Indiana Wesleyan | Senior | Santiago, Chile |
Mark Griffin | Marian (Ind.) | Sophomore | Cork, Ireland |
Yaroslav Sharyy | Missouri Valley | Freshman | Odintcovo, Russia |
Joao Okano | Mobile (Ala.) | Sophomore | Recife, Brazil |
Boris Klingebiel | Mobile (Ala.) | Senior | Bensheim, Germany |
Marcos Salzar | Northwestern Ohio | Senior | Arequipa, Peru |
Malik Omarkhanov | Northwestern Ohio | Junior | Karaganda, Kazakhstan |
Luis Hochenauer | San Diego Christian (Calif.) | Freshman | Langen, Germany |
David Moral-Tebar | Southwestern (Kan.) | Senior | La Roda, Spain |
German DelCanto | Tennessee Wesleyan | Junior | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Vaclav Schneider | William Woods (Mo.) | Freshman | Prague, Czech Republic |
Ben Grumley | William Woods (Mo.) | Sophomore | Traralgon, Australia |