BYU-Hawaii places 2nd in tennis
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BYU-Hawaii's Yue Wang won the singles title at the Men's Tennis Championships of the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and helped carry the BYU-Hawaii team to a second place tie in the competition.
The team tied for No. 2 with the University of West Florida at the tournament held in Kansas City, Mo., May 20-25. The ranking was the highest ever achieved by a BYU-Hawaii tennis team,BYU-Hawaii entered the tournament ranked No. 3.
Wang, a junior from Beijing, China, was seeded No. 2 in singles and No. 1 in doubles with teammate Jie Chen, a sophomore also from China. The two, however, were defeated in the second round of doubles competitions.
Teams coached by BYU-Hawaii tennis coach David Porter have competed in the past six NAIA Championship Tourn-aments.
"Wang won the singles title for us, but it was an entire team effort," said Athletic Director David Slack, who doubles as the athletic trainer for the university.
He noted that BYU-Hawaii was the only team in the tournament to have all six of its singles players and three doubles teams win at least one match.
Wang was presented the NAIA's 1991 Ward Ballinger Award at the tournament in recognition of his excellence of play and team leadership qualities.
The NAIA championship featured 256 singles players and 127 doubles teams competing in single elimination play.
