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The College of New Jersey’s
sophomore Jackie Shtemberg has been named the New Jersey Athletic
Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Year for the 2007 season.
A two-time recipient of the award, Shtemberg posted perfect 4-0 records in
both singles and doubles play during the Fall NJAC season. In addition,
she won the
Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division III Women’s Singles
National Championship at the
Copeland-Cox Tennis Center in Mobile, AL, becoming the
first female student-athlete at TCNJ to win a national ITA singles crown.
She also teamed with Christina Contrafatto to earn ITA All-American honors
in doubles by placing seventh. Shtemberg is now 42-5 on her career in
singles play while teaming with Contrafatto to produce a 37-10 career
doubles mark.
Lions’ freshman Amanda
Berg was named the 2007 NJAC Rookie of
the Year. Berg posted an 11-3 overall record in singles play during the
fall season, including a perfect 5-0 mark in NJAC competition. An
all-conference selection in both singles and doubles, she teamed with
Stefanie Haar to post an 11-2 overall mark in doubles play during the fall
season, including a perfect 4-0 record in NJAC competition.
TCNJ’s Scott Dicheck and Rutgers-Newark’s Kevin Morris were selected as
2007 NJAC Co-Coaches of the Year by their peers. Dicheck earned NJAC Coach
of the Year honors for the second consecutive year after continuing the
Lions’ 25-season unbeaten streak in conference play which spans the entire
history of women’s tennis in the New Jersey Athletic Conference. Since the
inception of women’s tennis as a conference sport back in 1982, TCNJ has
posted a 121-0 record in league competition, including a mark of 39-0
under Dicheck’s leadership. In eight seasons as the helm of the TCNJ
women’s tennis program, Dicheck has guided the Lions to an overall mark of
77-20.
Morris, who earned NJAC Coach of the Year honors in 2005, guided
Rutgers-Newark to an 8-4 overall record, including a third place finish in
the NJAC with a 3-2 league mark. In five seasons at the helm of the
Scarlet Raider program, Morris has produced an overall record of 34-28.
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