Belinda Woolcock was recognized as the ITA Region Senior Player of the Year
Keegan and Woolcock Honored with ITA Regional Awards
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 | Women's Tennis
The pair will be on the national ballot with winners released on Tuesday, May 23rd.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) announced the men's and women's Division I regional award winners and Florida's Kourtney Keegan and Belinda Woolcock were included among those honored.
Keegan was awarded the Southeast Region's ITA/Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship honor and Woolcock was recognized as the ITA Region Senior Player of the Year.
The national award winners will be released on Tuesday, May 23rd.
A Glance at Keegan's 2016-17 Season:
A Glance at Woolcock's 2016-17 Season:
What's Next for the Gators:
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Keegan was awarded the Southeast Region's ITA/Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship honor and Woolcock was recognized as the ITA Region Senior Player of the Year.
The national award winners will be released on Tuesday, May 23rd.
A Glance at Keegan's 2016-17 Season:
- Overall Singles: 19-6
- Overall Doubles: 19-8
- Season-High Singles Rank: 24 (January 4, 2017 - career-high)
- Season-High Doubles Rank: 2 (Preseason 2016-17)
- Played just 12 singles matches (8-4 record) prior to dual match season and has gone 11-2 in dual matches while battling knee complications
- named to the SEC All-Tournament Team
- advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA/Riviera All-American championships, defeating Pepperdine's No. 2-ranked Luisa Stefani 6-3, 6-3 during the run
- 113 career doubles wins is tied for the seventh-most in UF history
- President of the University of Florida's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and is a two-time recipient of the ITA/Arthur Ashe Jr. Sportsmanship and Leadership Award (SE Region)
- 2017 SEC Community Service Team
- earned ITA Scholar-Athlete notice each of her first three years for carrying a minimum 3.5 GPA, while being honored with SEC Academic Honor Roll status every year
- graduated cum laude with her bachelor's degree in Sport Management on April 30, 2017
- two-time All-American in doubles
- 2017 Second Team All-SEC
A Glance at Woolcock's 2016-17 Season:
- Overall Singles: 21-10
- Overall Doubles: 29-7
- Season-High Singles Rank: 6 (three times, most recently May 4, 2017)
- Season-High Doubles Rank: 12 (January 4, 2017 – also career-high)
- Career Singles: 105-38
- Career Doubles: 90-37
- Played No. 1 singles position in every dual match after having played the top spot only once in her career prior to this year
- 7-2 SEC singles record (13-6 all dual matches)
- 13-7 vs. ranked opponents this year
- captured her 100th career singles win (29th Gator to do so) that was the clincher at Missouri (March 26)
- SEC Player of the Week (Feb. 22, 2017)
- 29 doubles wins, tied for second-most on the team this season
- she and Josie Kuhlman have won a team-leading 21 doubles dual matches
- 2016 & 2017 First Team All-SEC
- SEC Academic Honor Roll status each of the last two years
- earned her bachelor's degree on April 30, 2017 in Sport Management
What's Next for the Gators:
- Who: No. 1 Florida vs. No. 20 Texas A&M
- What: NCAA Championships Round of 16
- When: Friday, May 19 * 7 p.m. ET
- Where: Dan Magill Tennis Complex * Athens, Ga.
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