Colonia, N.J. - In a unanimous vote, St. Thomas Aquinas Women's Tennis freshman Anaya Brons was selected the 2024 ECC Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, as the ECC Women's Tennis All-Conference selections were announced on Thursday afternoon ahead of this weekend's ECC Championship.
Five Spartans were also named to ECC All-Conference Teams, with Brons (Utrecht, Netherlands), Courtney Fyvie (Durban, South Africa) and Elise Semmartin (Fontenilles, France) picking up first team accolades, while teammates Ombeline Robilliart (Annecy, France) and Elita Silins (Northampton, England) were selected for second team kudos.
Brons dominated in her first collegiate season, turning in a blistering 11-1 overall singles record, including a 7-0 mark at No. 1 with a 5-0 record against ECC competition, taking down Molloy senior Elena Baughman Saunders, D'Youville freshman Mina Randjelovic, Daemen graduate student Frida Rubio, District of Columbia freshman Desire Parn, and Queens graduate student Eva Rivoal. The STAC freshman sensation went 4-1 at the ITA Division II Women's East Regional Singles Championship, reaching the semifinals. The two-time ECC Player of the Week and three-time ECC Rookie of the Week also finished 5-3 overall at doubles and 3-2 in conference play, with one win at No. 1 and a pair of wins at No. 2.
Meanwhile, Silins posted a 13-5 record (7-2 Doubles, 6-3 Singles) in her fourth season as a Spartan, Elise Semmartin went 12-4 (5-2 Doubles, 7-2 Singles) in her second year in Sparkill, Courtney Fyvie tallied a 14-3 mark (8-2 Doubles, 6-1 Singles) in her first season wearing maroon and gold and Ombeline Robillart put together an 11-3 record (4-1 Doubles, 7-2 Singles) in her first year on the STAC campus.
All five Spartans were instrumental in leading their team back to the East Coast Conference Championship Tournament for a sixth straight season.
2024 ECC Women's Tennis All-Conference
First Team
Anaya Brons, St. Thomas Aquinas
Courtney Fyvie, St. Thomas Aquinas
Caroline Hany-Fawzy, Queens
Frida Rubio, Daemen
Elise Semmartin, St. Thomas Aquinas
Polina Zelentsova, Dist. Columbia
Second Team*
Celia Bastin, Dist. Columbia
Saga Berggren, Queen
Kyra Bergmann, Queens
Maja Makal, Queens
Ombeline Robilliart, St. Thomas Aquinas
Regina Ruiz, Queens
Elita Silins, St. Thomas Aquinas
Player of the Year - Anaya Brons, St. Thomas Aquinas
Rookie of the Year - Anaya Brons, St. Thomas Aquinas
Coach of the Year - Dickie Mahaffey, District of Columbia
*A three-way tie for the 11th and 12th spots resulted in one extra member on the Second Team