Morlet, Fontenel Earn Pac-12 First Team Honors

TEMPE, Ariz. – Five Sun Devils have earned Pac-12 All-Conference selections, highlighted by First Team honors for junior Giulia Morlet and freshman Chelsea Fontenel, the conference announced Thursday.

Junior Marianna Argyrokastriti and graduate student Domenika Turkovic were named to the Second-Team, while graduate student Sedona Gallagher received an Honorable Mention.

Full Pac-12 release

All-Conference

First Team

Jessica Alsola, CAL

Angelica Blake, STAN

Reece Carter, ARIZ

Eryn Cayetano, USC

Chelsea Fontenel, ASU

Haley Giavara, CAL

Connie Ma, STAN

Giulia Morlet, ASU

Hikaru Sato, WASH

Madison Sieg, USC

Fangran Tian, UCLA

Alexandra Yepifanova, STAN

Second Team

Eva Alvarez Sande, WSU

Marianna Argyrokastriti, ASU

Antonia Balzert, COLO

Emma Charney, USC

Sara Choy, STAN

Snow Han, USC

Kimmi Hance, UCLA

Erika Matsuda, WASH

Astrid Olsen, WASH

Domenika Turkovic, ASU

Katja Wiersholm, CAL

Valencia Xu, STAN

Honorable Mention (received at least one vote):  Kaila Barksdale, UTAH; Naomi Cheong, USC; Aya El Sayed, COLO; Sedona Gallagher, ASU; Jennifer Kerr, WASH; Marcela Lopez, UTAH; Uxia Martinez Moral, ORE; Berta Passola Folch, CAL; Grace Piper, USC; Madison Tattini, UTAH; Betina Tokac, COLO; Hannah Viller Moeller, CAL; Elise Wagle, UCLA; Salma Ziouti, ARIZ.

Singles Player of the Year: Alexandra Yepifanova, Stanford

Doubles Team of the Year: Kimmi Hance/Elise Wagle, UCLA

Freshman/Newcomer of the Year: Fangran Tian, UCLA

Coach of the Year: Lele Forood, Stanford

It’s the second consecutive First Team selection for the Paris, France, native Morlet, whose 14 starts for the Sun Devils this spring came on singles Court 1. Ranked a career-best No. 54 in singles in early February, Morlet closed out the regular season with a pair of victories against Utah’s Madison Tattini and Arizona’s Salma Ziouti. Alongside Gallagher on doubles Court 2, the pair went a team-best 13-3.

With Morlet nursing a foot injury in mid-February, the Sun Devils turned to the rookie Fontenel to fill in on singles Court 1. In five matches atop the Sun Devil lineup, Fontenel went 3-2, defeating Baylor’s No. 94 Isabelle Harvison for the first win over a ranked opponent in her career.

After Morlet’s return, Fontenel slid to No. 2, where she has since defeated USC’s No. 42 Eryn Cayetano and Snow Han, with the latter coming in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament.

Consistently ranked in singles this spring by the ITA, Fontenel was listed a career-high…