Four Dawgs Earn All-Conference Accolades

SEATTLE – Four Huskies will conclude the final Pac-12 season with All-Pac-12 honors, the league announced Friday morning. Alexia Jacobs and Astrid Olsen were named All-Pac-12 Second Team, while Erika Matsuda and Melissa Sakar earned all-conference Honorable Mention.
 
The 27^th-ranked Huskies open NCAA tournament play tomorrow, May 4 at 7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET) as they take on No. 41 Princeton. The match will be hosted at the University of Virginia.
 
At the conclusion of the conference season, the All-Pac-12 teams are based on voting by the conference’s head coaches. This is the second year in which 12 players were named to first and second team, as the previous format allowed for six first-teamers and six second-teamers.
 
Jacobs, currently ranked No. 103, has played No. 2 singles for the majority of the season, all but one in which she played at the No. 1 spot. The freshman has spent most of her first season at Washington in both the singles and doubles rankings, playing No. 1 doubles with Olsen and No. 2 singles. Jacobs holds a 16-5 singles record this season (highest winning percentage on the team) and has been ranked as high as 67^th – the highest ranking for a Husky this season. Jacobs’ season in the singles rankings kickstarted when she defeated the 20^th-ranked Charney when the Huskies faced USC in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. In the sole match this season when she stepped into the top singles position, Jacobs defeated the 53^rd-ranked Kabbaj from San Diego State. She also earned a win over No. 68 Ratliff from Ohio State.
 
This year marks No. 96 Olsen’s second consecutive year earning a spot on the All-Pac-12 Second Team. She holds a 16-6 singles record, including the highest ranked singles win of the season for the Dawgs when she defeated Stanford’s Yepifanova on Senior Day. Before she was in the singles rankings, Olsen defeated No. 47 Mack in a 4-3 win upset over then-No. 15 San Diego. Olsen also took down Cal’s 51^st-ranked Ivanov at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships earlier this season. She has played alongside Jacobs at No. 1 doubles in every lineup this year, where the pair have compiled a 12-9 record and upset the 22^nd-ranked Viller Moeller and Mushika from Cal, 6-3.
 
 
Matsuda has played No. 1 the entirety of her sophomore season, earning her second career Pac-12 postseason award. Last season during her freshman…