Quesada earns MIAA honor

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Northwest women’s tennis senior Camila Quesada has been named the MIAA Athlete of the Week in a release from the conference on Monday.

Quesada went a perfect 4-0 at the No. 1 singles position and 3-1 at No. 1 doubles to lead the Bearcats to three victories last week. She is the second women’s tennis player to earn the honor as sophomore Lorena Rivas Jarolim garnered conference accolades back on March 2.

Quesada, the No. 50 ranked singles player in the latest ITA, picked up four big singles victories last week. She beat Savannah Drew from William Jewell (6-1, 7-5) on Tuesday and beat Harding’s Piper Huey, the region’s No. 8 ranked player on Thursday (3-6, 6-1, 6-2). On Friday she beat the nation’s No. 21 ranked singles player, Northeastern State’s Kristina Savchenkov (3-6, 6-4, 10-7). Against Central Oklahoma on Saturday, Quesdada beat Alaina Gorina (6-3, 6-0), the region’s No. 11 ranked player.

In doubles, she paired with Jarolim to beat William Jewell’s, Harding’s and Central Oklahoma’s No. 1 doubles teams. The lone blemish was a defeat to Northeastern State’s No. 12 ranked doubles tandem of Savchenkov and Patricia Husakova.

The Bearcats will return to action at 2 p.m. Wednesday with a home MIAA contest against Nebraska-Kearney in both men’s and women’s action. The women will also host Lincoln at 3 p.m. Friday and Southwest Baptist at 10 a.m. Saturday.