DALLAS – Western Kentucky’s Virginia Madueño and Delaware’s doubles team of Maryia Hrynashka and Paulina Jurkowska have earned Conference USA’s women’s tennis weekly award recognition. Liberty swept the men’s awards, with Siwanat Auytayakul earning the title of Men’s Tennis Athletes of the Week and the duo of Benjamin Sparks and David Ekpenyong earning Men’s Doubles Team of the Week honors.
 
Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week – Virginia Madueño, WKU – Fr. – Alicante, Spain
Madueño improved to 15-4 in singles play this season with a pair of wins last week at the No. 3 position. The true freshman topped Campbellsville's Valentina Curli 6-1, 6-0 on Thursday, and followed with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Austin Peay's Luca Bohlen on Saturday. She is now 5-1 at the No. 3 position and has a 6-0 record at No. 4 and a 4-1 record at No. 5 this spring. Madueño's 15 singles wins are tied for sixth-most in a single season in program history and she now ranks second in singles wins in a season among true freshman in program history.
 
Women's Doubles Team of the Week – Delaware
Maryia Hrynashka – Sr. – Rancho Cordova, Calif.
Paulina Jurkowska – Sr. – Redditch, England
Following their third win of the weekend over Johns Hopkins, Hrynashka and Jurkowska tied the program record for most career doubles wins by a pair with 43. On court one, the duo went 3-0 over the past week and have won nine of their last 10 matches. Against Temple, they claimed a 6-2 victory to open the week. Later, after returning to Newark, they went 6-4 over VCU and 6-1 over Johns Hopkins. The pair are now 12-4 in dual action on the year.
 
Men's Tennis Athlete of the Week - Siwanat Auytayakul, Liberty - So. – Bangkok, Thailand
Auytayakul led Liberty to a 2-0 week with a pair of singles victories at the top of the lineup against No. 56 Old Dominion (4-2) and Elon (5-2). The sophomore bested ODU's Felix Obermair 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 to help the Flames avoid a 3-3 tie and earn a ranked win near the end of the season. He then topped Elon's Veljko Krstic 7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (9), fighting off three match points after being down 9-6 in the third set tiebreaker. Auytayakul improved to 9-9 in singles this season and 3-4 in the No. 1 position. He is 5-3 in his last 10 results.
 
Men's Doubles Team of the Week – Liberty
Benjamin Sparks – R-Fr. – Fredricksburg, Texas
David Ekpenyong – Jr. – Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
The duo of Sparks and Ekpenyong guided Liberty doubles with a 2-0 week at No. 1 position with triumphs over No. 56 Old Dominion and Elon. They began the week topping ODU's Adam Majchrzak and Thomas Nelson 6-3 to help secure a crucial doubles point. The pair bested Elon's Veljko Krtsic and Jack Curtis with a 6-2 score. They improved to 9-5 together this season and 4-3 in the No. 1 doubles position.  They are 4-1 in their last five matches together, all in the top doubles slot.
 
2026 CUSA Women’s Tennis Athletes of the Week
J21        Isabella Walker, LA Tech
J28        Milana Tsulygina, Liberty
F4          Amelia Gorman, Delaware
­­F11       Daniella O'Neill Garcia, Liberty
F18       Katerina Mandelikova, FIU
F25       Amelia Gorman, Delaware
M4        Zoie Epps, LA Tech
M11      Irene Artigas, Jax State
M18      Nayuma Subba, Sam Houston
M25      Ema Baraniakova, Kennesaw State
A1         Ema Baraniakova, Kennesaw State
A8         Virginia Madueño, WKU
 
2026 CUSA Women’s Tennis Doubles Team of the Week
J21        Zoie Epps & Isabella Walker, LA Tech
J28        Yoanna Radulova & Maria Turchetto, Liberty
F4          Virginia Madueño & Barbara Olvera, WKU
F11       Zoie Epps & Isabella Walker, LA Tech
F18       Paulina Jurkowska & Maryia Hrynashka, Delaware
F25       Amelia Gorman & Nayva Vadlamudi, Delaware
M4        Yoanna Radulova & Maria Turchetto, Liberty
M11      Polina Ramenskaja & Aneka Patel, Jax State
M18      Zoie Epps & Isabella Walker, LA Tech
M25      Aleksandra Simeva & Maria Lucia Araoz-Gosn, FIU
A1         Ema Baraniakova & Sofia Madrid, Kennesaw State
A8         Maryia Hrynashka & Paulina Jurkowska, Delaware
 
2026 CUSA Men’s Tennis Athletes of the Week
J21        Antoine Mayoral, MTSU
J28        Eric Crivei, MTSU
F4          Ondrej Horak, MTSU
F11       Rodrigo Santiago Arraez, Liberty
F18       Charlie Penman, Jax State
F25       Birtan Duran, MTSU
M4        Ondrej Horak, MTSU
M11      Siwanat Auytayakul, Liberty
M18      Karim Al-Amin, MTSU
M25      Nathan Walters, Kennesaw State
A1         Birtan Duran, MTSU
A8         Siwanat Auytayakul, Liberty
 
2026 CUSA Men’s Tennis Doubles Team of the Week
J21        Karim Al-Amin & Ondrej Horak, MTSU
J28        Lance Urlaub & Holland Snell, NM State
F4          Euan Mackenzie & Tobey Lock, Delaware
F11       Birtan Duran & Antoine Mayoral, MTSU
F18       Eric Crivei & Jonasz Dziopak, MTSU
F25       Karim Al-Amin & Ondrej Horak, MTSU
M4        Karim Al-Amin & Ondrej Horak, MTSU
M11      Mason Robins & James Sclater, Delaware
M18      Pere Prat & Federico Garbero, Delaware
M25      Kyvan Rietkerk & Leon Peranovic, Kennesaw State
A1         Ondrej Horak & Antoine Mayoral, MTSU
A8         Benjamin Sparks & David Ekpenyong, Liberty