BARBOURVILLE, Ky. - No. 25 Union College placed five players on the All-Appalachian Athletic Conference team along with two conference players of the year to go along with head coach Renzo Lopez winning the conference's coach of the year award as the organization announced the awards Friday.
Camila Cunha (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Juliana Negosek (Curitiba, Brazil) were named as the AAC Players of the Year along with Tennessee Wesleyan College's Karolina Pierko.
Cunha posted a 9-2 record in singles' play this season while Negosek was 11-1. The two teamed up for a 9-2 mark in No. 1 doubles' action throughout 2009.
The award was the second straight season Cunha has taken home the conference's top honor and the first for Negosek.
Lopez earned his third straight AAC Women's Coach of the Year award. He has won the award three straight years. Since the program was brought back for the 2006 season, Lopez has guided the Lady Bulldogs to a 57-17 record with three AAC regular-season titles.
Cunha and Negosek joined Ximena Aguilar (Morelia, Mexico), Andressa Coelho (Santa Maria, Brazil) and Katie Sakalauskas (Surrey, Canada) on the All-AAC squad.
Aguilar went 11-3 this season with two of her defeats coming as a No. 2 singles' player with the rest of her matches coming in No. 3 singles' play.
Sakalauskas and Coelho both went perfect in singles' play. Sakalauskas went 12-0 with Coelho winning all 11 matches.
The five players on the squad are the most Union has earned in program history.
Aguilar made her second straight appearance on the conference's All-Sportsmanship team.
Negosek and Nicole Bistline (Frankfort, Ky.) were Union's representatives on the Academic All-AAC squad.
Union enters the AAC Tournament Friday with the top seed and will play the winner of the Milligan (Tenn.) College and King (Tenn.) College first-round match at 1 p.m. in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Lady Bulldogs enter the postseason with an overall record of 11-3 including a perfect 6-0 AAC record. Union looks to remain undefeated against conference foes, a streak that covers 31 matches over the last four seasons.
- [Women's Cross Country] - Eden Ellison - Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete
- [Football] - Quintin Borders - MSC East Offensive Player of the Year
- [Football] - Demetrius Davis, Quinton Borders & William Roundtree - All-MSC East First Team
- [Football] - Brad Fulton & Josh Littleton - Academic All-Conference Team
- [Women's Soccer] - Marcela Salum - AAC Player of the Year
- [Women's Soccer] - Patricia Nardy - AAC Defensive Player of the Year
- [Women's Soccer] - Marcela Salum - AAC Offensive Player of the Year
- [Women's Soccer] - Ashley Hall - Golden Boot Award Winner
- [Women's Soccer] - Jason Lanham - AAC Coach of the Year
- [Women's Soccer] - Ashley Hall, Stephanie Cagle, Patricia Nardy, Nikki Jeck & Kristina Kirk - Academic All-Conference Team
- [Women's Soccer] - Marcela Salum, Ashley Hall, Patricia Nardy, Renata Peixoto, Jessica Brandner & Jessica Florence - All-AAC First Team
- [Men's Soccer] - Danny Bartlett, Nathan Koebcke, Roscoe Moonieyan, Kevin Niehaus, Austin Sebald & Max Sisson - Academic All-Conference Team
- [Men's Soccer] - Jonathan Sutton, Jonathan Shaw & Aaron Miller - All-AAC First Team
- [Women's Soccer] - 2009 Appalachian Athletic Conference Tournament Champion
- [Volleyball] - 2009 Appalachian Athletic Conference Tournament Champion
- [Volleyball] - Whitney Elam - AAC Coach of the Year
- [Volleyball] - Monica Moreland - AAC Setter of the Year
- [Volleyball] - Amanda Silva - AAC Libero of the Year
- [Volleyball] - Chelsea Kirschman - AAC All-Freshman Team
- [Volleyball] - Autumn Combs, Christina Prindle, Maddie Peterson, Sarah Alderson - Academic All-Conference Team
- [Volleyball] - Monica Moreland, Autumn Combs, Brooke Vinovich, Amanda Silva - All-AAC First Team
- [Volleyball] - 2009 Appalachian Athletic Conference Regular-Season Champions
- [Women's Soccer] - 2009 Appalachian Athletic Conference Regular-Season Champions
- [Cycling] - Bulldogs place second at NCCA National Championship Meet
- [Cycling] - Rachel Millsop - Placed Third in the 2009 NCCA Division II Women's Omnium
- [Cycling] - Zach Winn - 2009 NCCA Division II Men's Omnium National Champion
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