Women's Tennis

Bashore, Nowak Headline Women's Tennis All-Conference Teams

LANCASTER, Pa. - The Atlantic East Conference announced the Women's Tennis All-Conference teams and major award winners on Wednesday afternoon, as Marywood University grabbed major honors. 

Allison Bashore of Marywood earned Player of the Year after leading her squad to the 2022 conference championship and earning tournament MVP. Bashore went undefeated in #1 singles throughout regular season conference play and also went 4-1 in in-season conference doubles play with partner, Gabriella Nowak.

Nowak was awarded Rookie of the Year after an undefeated season in conference play as the #2 singles player. The first-year made an incredible impact on the Pacers' perfect conference record as a top singles player and as Bashore's partner at #1 doubles.

Marywood garnered Coaching Staff of the Year after finishing with an unblemished 5-0 conference regular season record as well as earning the top seed for the 2022 Atlantic East Playoffs. The coaching staff, consisting of Dana Ciccotti, Terri Hinton, Tom Moore and Devin Zombek guided the Pacers to their first Atlantic East Women's Tennis title this season.

Lastly, the Atlantic East Elite 20 award winner for women's tennis, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average competing at the finals site at each of the Atlantic East's 20 team championships, was awarded to Jessica Dougherty of Immaculata University. Dougherty, a member of runner-up Immaculata, maintains a cumulative 3.99 GPA as an Education PreK Gr4/PreK-8 Special Education major. For the entire selection criteria and process, click here.

For the full list of All-Conference teams, check out below...

First Team
Doubles 
- Annamarie Degnan, Pamela Kontaras - Immaculata 
- Allison Bashore, Gabriella Nowak - Marywood 
- Faith Kendricks, Karah Laboranti - Marywood 

Singles
- Allison Bashore, Marywood
- Caroline Haymans, Marymount
- Annamarie Degnan, Immaculata
- Gabriella Nowak, Marywood
- Jessica Dougherty, Immaculata
- Hannah Asaka, Neumann

Second Team
Doubles
- Avamarie Backich, Jen Eisemann, Gwynedd Mercy
- Moira Ryan, Casey Meenan, Gwynedd Mercy
- Jessica Dougherty, Kelly O'Brien, Immaculata

Singles
- Casey Meenan, Gwynedd Mercy
- Faith Kendricks, Marywood
- Avamarie Backich, Gwynedd Mercy
- Kylie Seeger, Neumann
- Kelly O'Brien, Immaculata
- Kaitlyn Smith, Neumann
- Pamela Kontaras, Immaculata

Player of the Year - Allison Bashore, Marywood
Rookie of the Year - Gabriella Nowak, Marywood
Coaching Staff of the Year - Marywood University