Awad earns first team all-conference recognition
The conference office announced Wednesday afternoon that Hala Awad was voted by head coaches around the league to the South Atlantic Conference’s first team.
ROCK HILL, S.C. – The conference office announced Wednesday afternoon that Hala Awad was voted by head coaches around the league to the South Atlantic Conference's first team.
With her incredibly strong play overall and in conference, Awad was nearly a lock for the first team. The senior is having the best season she's had at C-N and the best since transferring to the university two years ago.
Awad has been C-N's regular #1, and owns a 12-1 this year. The Egyptian has the 4th best winning percentage in a single season in Carson-Newman Women's Tennis history. She is undefeated in conference play with a perfect 8-0 mark, winning matches against ranked teams like #24 Wingate, #22 Lenoir-Rhyne, #23 Newberry, #34 Anderson, and other conference opponents such as UVA Wise, Emory & Henry, Mars Hill, and LMU. For her efforts, she is currently the #49 player in the nation.
The only matches of the season in SAC play that went unfinished for Awad was against Coker, Tusculum (which she was one point away from finishing), and Catawba, where she played against the #21 player in the country Sofia Antolini and had won the first set.
The senior joins an elite club of six other players from around the conference, and is the only selection, men's or women's, that C-N received. This is also the first time Awad has received all-conference honors.
She is the first Eagle to earn a spot on any all-conference first team since Ana Carla Resende earned first team All-SAC honors in 2022. That was the third time in her C-N career she had earned the honor.
In her two seasons with the Eagles, Awad has gone 21-4 across her matches. She is the owner of Carson-Newman Women's Tennis' highest career singles record, having won 84% of her singles matches. She surpassed teammate Maria del Mar Sarda Marti thanks to her great season.
Carson-Newman is next on court at the SAC tournament, where they will play the first-seeded #6 Catawba. Awad will have a shot to clean up unfinished business against Sofia Antolini. The 8th-seeded Eagles will line up for first serve at the Palmetto Tennis Center in Sumter, South Carolina, at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, April 16th. For updates, follow @CN_Eagles on X and Instagram, or Carson-Newman Athletics on Facebook. Full coverage is also available at cneagles.com.
