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.

Illinois junior Kenta Miyoshi was named Player of the Year and UCLA’s Rudy Quan chosen Freshman of the Year. Ohio State’s Ty Tucker was named Coach of the Year for the 18th time in his career and for the fourth season in a row.

Miyoshi, who earned ITA All-America honors this past fall, sports a 28-10 singles record, which included an 8-2 mark in Big Ten competition. The native of Kawasaki, Japan also owns an 18-8 mark against ranked opponents. During the spring duals season, Miyoshi has won 79 percent of his matches (15-4) played at No. 1 singles. He becomes the eighth Illinois recipient of the player of the year award and the first since 2017.

Quan boosts a 13-5 singles record, having won six of seven matches during the Big Ten season. He was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week three times and has eight wins against nationally-ranked opponents. In his first season on the collegiate scene, Quan has taken over the No. 1 singles spot for the Bruins and is ranked 21st in singles by the ITA.

In his 26th season at Ohio State, Tucker has guided the sixth-ranked Buckeyes to a 24-2 overall record. Ohio State recorded six wins against Top 20 teams and captured its 19th consecutive Big Ten regular season title. The Buckeyes finished 13-0 in Big Ten play to extend their five-year conference win streak to 47 matches.

Miyoshi and USC’s Peter Makk were unanimous selections to the All-Big Ten First Team while NCAA singles runner-up Ozan Baris of Michigan State was named to the team for the third-straight year.

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

A complete list of award honorees is listed below:

2024-25 BIG TEN MEN'S TENNIS AWARDS

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kenta Miyoshi, Jr., Illinois

FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Rudy Quan, Fr., UCLA

COACH OF THE YEAR
Ty Tucker, Ohio State

ALL-BIG TEN, FIRST TEAM
Kenta Miyoshi, Jr., Illinois +
Ozan Baris, Jr., Michigan State
Aristotelis Thanos, So., Michigan State
Calvin Mueller, Sr., Nebraska
Jack Anthrop, Jr., Ohio State
Alexander Bernard, Jr., Ohio State
Aidan Kim, So., Ohio State
Loren Byers, Sr., Penn State
Aleksa Krivokapic, Jr., Purdue
Rudy Quan, Fr., UCLA
Peter Makk, Sr., USC +
Cesar Bouchelaghem, Sr., Washington

ALL-BIG TEN, SECOND TEAM
William Mroz, Jr., Illinois
Will Cooksey, Sr., Michigan
Gavin Young, Sr., Michigan
Max Sheldon, Sr., Michigan State
Lenn Luemkemann, So., Oregon
Emon van Loben Sels, So., UCLA

ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Matt Forbes, Fr., Michigan State
Brandon Carpico, R-Fr., Ohio State
Kaylan Bigun, Fr., UCLA
Rudy Quan, Fr., UCLA +
Nathan Trouve, Fr., USC
Patrik Meszaros, Fr., Wisconsin

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
Tyler Bowers, So., Illinois
Sam Scherer, Jr., Indiana
Alex Cairo, So., Michigan
Danial Rakhmatullayev, Fr., Michigan State
Roni Hietaranta, Sr., Nebraska
Max Bengtsson, Sr., Northwestern
Reece Yakubov, Jr., Ohio State
Matthew Burton, Jr., Oregon
Loren Byers, Sr., Penn State
Henrik Villanger, So., Purdue
Emon van Loben Sels, So., UCLA
Karl Lee, Sr., USC
Dzianis Zharyn, Sr., Washington
Sachiv Kumar, Fr., Wisconsin

+ unanimous selections