Denver’s O’Loughlin Nets Season's Initial #SummitWTN Player of the Week Award

Denver’s O’Loughlin Nets Season's Initial #SummitWTN Player of the Week Award

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Denver’s O’Loughlin Nets Season's Initial #SummitWTN Player of the Week Award

ELMHURST, Ill. – Denver's Julia O'Loughlin was named Summit League Women's Tennis Player of the Week for her performance through Jan. 23. The honor marks the initial weekly award of the season.

JULIA O'LOUGHLIN, DENVER
Jr. // Highland Beach, Fla.

  • Collected third career Player of the Week award
  • Posted a pair of straight-set wins among her trio of singles victories
  • Defeated Oral Roberts' Jovana Antonijevic (2 and 3) and Wyoming's Dorottya Jonas (2 and 1)
  • Earned three-set win over Tulsa's Rongrong Leenabanchong (6-2, 6-7, 10-4)
  • Helped score a trio of doubles victories of tandems from ORU (6-2), Tulsa (7-5) and Wyoming (7-6 (10-4))

Also nominated: Valeriia Lavrenchuk, IUPUI; Petya Simeonova, Oral Roberts; Barbora Kollarova, South Dakota; Laura Romero, South Dakota State; Maria Bessmertnaya, Western Illinois

ABOUT THE SUMMIT LEAGUE
Celebrating its 35th season of Division I athletics, The Summit League offers 19 championship sports and has a combined enrollment of over 120,000 at nine institutions, including four located in top 60 U.S. metro populations and two land-grant universities. Member institutions include: Denver (University of Denver), Fort Wayne (Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne), IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis), North Dakota State University, Omaha (University of Nebraska Omaha), Oral Roberts University, the University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University and Western Illinois University. Previously known as the Mid-Continent Conference, The Summit League rebranded in 2007 and has since produced eight NCAA Champions along with over 80 Academic All-Americans, 75 All-America selections and numerous former student-athletes competing at the highest professional level. For more information about the league, visit www.thesummitleague.org website, follow The Summit League on Twitter @thesummitleague and watch the weekly "Inside The Summit League" show at www.thesummitleague.org/itsl.

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