CLAREMONT, Calif.  - Ananya Sriniketh earned the SCIAC Women's Tennis Newcomer of the Year, David Schwarz, Emily Orlove, Lindsay Brown and Angela Kulikov earned the SCIAC Coaching Staff of the Year, and six Athenas earned spots on the All-SCIAC teams, the league office announced today. 

Sriniketh was joined on the All-SCIAC first team by Rebecca Kong and Bell Zhou, while Leah Baroudi, Celestina Cedillo-Vayson de Pradenne and Shifali Dinesh earned spots on the second team. 

Sriniketh has compiled a 23-4 record in singles this year, and enters the postseason on a 15-match win streak. She picked up key three-set wins as the Athenas picked up 4-3 wins over Emory and WashU at the ITA Indoor Nationals at the start of her win streak, and she went 6-0 in SCIAC matches. 

Schwarz and the CMS coaching staff brought a young CMS team, with Lindsay Eisenman as its only senior, to No. 1 in the national computer rankings for the last month (Chicago moved up to No. 1 on Wednesday, after a pair of top-10 wins last week, although the Athenas have defeated Chicago twice this year).

Kong finished as the runner-up at the ITA Cup in singles in the fall, and enters the SCIAC Tournament with a 23-5 overall record in singles and 22-7 in doubles. She was the SCIAC Athlete of the Week after going 3-0 in singles at the ITA Indoor Nationals. 

Zhou currently stands at 19-6 on the year in singles and 18-10 in doubles. She has won her last eight matches in a row, which has included three-set wins over Middlebury, Stanton and Pomona-Pitzer, as well as dominant two-set wins over Amherst, Chicago, MIT and Redlands. 

Cedillo-Vayson de Pradenne is 17-2 in singles, with one loss to teammate Rachel Garton in the fall and a three-setter to Division I UC Riverside in January, winning her last 14 matches since, all in straight sets (although one three-setter with Chicago was halted after CMS clinched at the ITA Indoors. 

Baroudi has an 18-6 singles record and a seven-match win streak has regularly been in the doubles lineup as well. Dinesh has contributed a 13-2 record in singles, with one loss to Sriniketh in the fall, and one playing at No. 1 singles against Division II Concordia Irvine. 

CMS opens postseason play this afternoon when it hosts Caltech for a 4:30 p.m. contest at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center. The winner will move on to Saturday's championship against either Pomona-Pitzer or Redlands.