Women's Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year Announced

Fayetteville, Ark. - The 2023 SEC women's tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year was awarded to Mississippi State's Emmanouela Antonaki today by the conference office. The accolade was announced as part of the conference tournament.

Antonaki has been a vital part of the Mississippi State women's tennis program on the court and in the classroom. Antonaki has started in every match this season, while also maintaining a 4.0 during grad school.

She has played at the No. 1 position in both singles and doubles for the spring season. While maintaining a perfect GPA she has gone 18-14 overall in singles and 13-8 in dual match play, leading the team in both categories this season.

During the 2023 season, she claimed multiple wins that moved her to the No. 1 spot in the MSU record book for career singles wins. Antonaki is also currently ranked at 95 after earning four ranked wins this season. The four ranked wins this season has now moved Antonaki to 28 career ranked singles wins.

During her career at Mississippi State Antonaki has earned a number of accolades. In 2019 she earned ITA Southern Region Rookie of the Year, Second Team All-SEC, All-Freshman SEC and a SEC Freshman of the Week. In 2020 was the ITA Southern Region Player to Watch. In 2021, she earned First All-SEC Team, a SEC Player of the Week and was an ITA All-American. During the 2022 season Antonaki earned a spot on the Second Team All-SEC.

From 2018-Present she has an overall record of 97-63 in singles and 81-59 record in doubles. Antonaki highest ranking while at Mississippi State was 19th in singles in 2021 and in doubles the highest she has been ranked is 41st in 2021.

Antonaki has achieved 20 singles wins and 20 doubles wins in a single season three times. Antonaki has made it to the NCAA tournament either with her team or as an individual each year she has been at MSU (2018-Present).