Big Ten Announces Men’s Tennis Postseason Awards

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference revealed its individual award winners, All-Big Ten selections, All-Freshman Team and Sportsmanship Award recipients for men’s tennis on Thursday. The postseason honors were voted on by the conference’s head coaches.

Michigan rookie Max Dahlin, a native of Karlstad, Sweden, received the Big Ten Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards while Michigan State’s Harry Jadun was named Big Ten Coach of the Year.

Dahlin (pronounced: Mochs Dah-lin) sports a 28-3 singles record and finished undefeated (11-0) in Big Ten competition. A two-time ITA All-American, Dahlin reached the NCAA Singles Quarterfinals in the fall, has won 17-straight matches and is the highest ranked Big Ten player (No. 8) in the ITA singles rankings.

Jadun (pronounced: Jade-IN) guided the Spartans to their first Big Ten regular season title since 1967. Michigan State ended Ohio State’s 49-match conference win streak and went 12-1 in conference duals. MSU rebounded from a 1-6 start to the season by winning 14 of 16 matches and moving up to No. 25 in the ITA team rankings. In his fourth season at Michigan State, Jadun is the first Spartan recognized as Coach of the Year since the award’s inception in 1987.

Four players named to the All-Big Ten First Team were unanimous selections – Dahlin, Kenta Miyoshi of Illinois, Aristotelis Thanos of Michigan State and Ohio State’s Aidan Kim. Michigan State senior Ozan Baris was selected to the team for the fourth-straight year.

The Big Ten also recognized 14 Sportsmanship Award honorees, who distinguished themselves through sportsmanship, ethical behavior and good citizenship.

A list of award honorees is below: 

2025-26 BIG TEN MEN'S TENNIS AWARDS

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Max Dahlin, R-Fr., Michigan

FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Max Dahlin, R-Fr., Michigan

COACH OF THE YEAR
Harry Jadun, Michigan State

ALL-BIG TEN, FIRST TEAM
Gabriel Debru, Fr., Illinois
Kenta Miyoshi, Sr., Illinois +
Max Dahlin, R-Fr., Michigan +
Ozan Baris, Sr., Michigan State
Matthew Forbes, So., Michigan State
Aristotelis Thanos, R-Sr., Michigan State +
Jack Anthrop, Sr., Ohio State
Aidan Kim, Jr., Ohio State +
Rudy Quan, So., UCLA
Emon van Loben Sels, R-Jr., UCLA
Branko Djuric, Fr., USC
Patrik Meszaros, So., Wisconsin

ALL-BIG TEN, SECOND TEAM
Bjorn Swenson, Sr., Michigan
Nikita Filin, So., Ohio State
Preston Stearns, R-Jr., Ohio State
Spencer Johnson, Jr., UCLA
Max Exsted, Fr., USC
Nathan Trouve, So., USC

ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Gabriel Debru, Fr., Illinois
Adam Jilly, Fr., Illinois
Max Dahlin, R-Fr., Michigan +
Branko Djuric, Fr., USC
Max Exsted, Fr., USC
Ferdinand Kloesters, R-Fr., Wisconsin

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
Adam Jilly, Fr., Illinois
Matteo Antonescu, So., Indiana
|Mert Oral, Sr., Michigan
David Saye, Sr., Michigan State
Henry Bilicic, Gr., Nebraska
Ethan Schiffman, Jr., Northwestern
JP Day, R-So., Ohio State
Russell Soohoo, Sr., Oregon
Michael Wright, Sr., Penn State
Henrik Villanger, Jr., Purdue
Emon van Loben Sels, R-Jr., UCLA
Nathan Trouve, So., USC
Rohan Belday, So., Washington
Michael Minasyan, Sr., Wisconsin

+ unanimous selections