April 20, 2005

ABILENE, Texas - Conference tennis champions Hardin-Simmons University placed two players on the American Southwest Conference men's All-Conference teams selected by vote of the 15 ASC head coaches and David Wu was named the ASC West Player of the Year.

ASC West Division Most Valuable Player David Wu (Abilene, Texas) and senior Brad Grace were named first-team All-ASC.

Men's ASC West Tri-Freshman of the Year honors were presented to Cage, Ross Bennett (Floydada, Texas) of McMurry University and Christian Sasam (Pearland, Texas) of Schreiner University. Garrett Parker (Fredericksburg, Texas) of Schreiner was voted men's ASC West Newcomer of the Year. ASC West Tri-Coach of the Year honors went to Mark Hathorn of McMurry, Lee Jennings of Schreiner and Shane Williford of Hardin-Simmons.

AMERICAN SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE 2005 ALL-CONFERENCE TENNIS TEAMS MEN Dante Cage Fr. Texas Lutheran Corpus Christi, Texas / Carroll HS Taylor Clemmer Fr. Mississippi College Madison, Miss. Brad Grace Sr. Hardin-Simmons Victoria, Texas Adam O'Neal Jr. Mary Hardin-Baylor Mesquite, Texas Adam Stone Sr. Texas-Tyler Houston, Texas / Clear Lake HS David Wu Jr. Hardin-Simmons Abilene, Texas / Wylie HS

AMERICAN SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE TENNIS WEST DIVISION AWARDS

MEN West Division First Team Dante Cage Fr. Texas Lutheran Corpus Christi, Texas / Carroll HS Brad Grace Sr. Hardin-Simmons Victoria, Texas Roy Lehman So. Hardin-Simmons Vernon, Texas Adam O'Neal Jr. Mary Hardin-Baylor Mesquite, Texas Christian Sasam Fr. Schreiner Pearland, Texas David Wu Jr. Hardin-Simmons Abilene, Texas / Wylie HS

West Division Player of the Year David Wu, Jr., Hardin-Simmons West Division Newcomer of the Year: Garrett Parker, Sr., Schreiner University (Fredericksburg, Texas) West Division Tri-Freshman of the Year: Ross Bennett, McMurry University (Floydada, Texas); Dante Cage, Texas Lutheran University; Christian Sasam, Schreiner University West Division Tri-Coach of the Year: Mark Hathorn, McMurry University; Lee Jennings, Schreiner University; Shane Williford, Hardin-Simmons University

West Division Second Team Adam Cherry So.. McMurry Spearman, Texas Ricky Gonzales So. Howard Payne Amarillo, Texas Wes Kidd So. Hardin-Simmons Beevile, Texas / A.C. Jonah HS Wade Morgan Fr. Hardin-Simmons Odessa, Texas / Permian HS Rodney Munoz So. Texas Lutheran Brun, Texas Clint Schuelke Sr. Howard Payne Grady, Texas