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updated 10/16/2007

Sam Danesis Named HCAC Most Valuable Player;
Megan Chann Earns First-Team Honors

Sam Danesis -- HCAC Most Valuable Player

TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology sophomore Sam Danesis (Akron, Ohio/Revere) has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Tennis Most Valuable Player for the second time in her career to highlight the all-league honors released today.

Freshman Megan Chann (Columbia, Mo.) joined Danesis as a first-team all-conference award winner.

Danesis stands 15-3 this season in singles play and teamed up with Chann for a 14-2 mark at the No. 1 doubles position.

Danesis enters this weekend's HCAC Team Tournament with a career record of 35-6 and needs one singles victory to tie the career school record of 36 set by Alison Bailey.

She holds the Engineer school record for career doubles victories with a 31-7 mark. Her combined singles and doubles career mark of 66-13 also marks a Rose-Hulman school record.

With the award, Danesis becomes the first two-time league Most Valuable Player in the history of women's athletics at Rose-Hulman.

Chann reached the first-team all-conference squad by virtue of her 14-2 doubles record with Danesis and a 5-6 mark at the No. 4 singles position for Rose-Hulman this fall.

The Engineers stand 7-3 overall and finished league play at 6-2 during the regular season. Rose-Hulman will square off with Franklin in the first HCAC semifinal at 9 a.m. Saturday, with the winner advancing to the 1 p.m. championship match. The team tournament champion will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament next spring.