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Junior earns AAC Player of the Month award

Junior Despoina Vogasari earned her first Player of the Month award for this year, following her strong performance at the Rice Invitational.

The American Athletic Conference honored Vogasari after her 3-0 in singles in the team’s first action of the year.

In her first two match-ups of the season, Vogasari swept straight sets against Fabienne Gettwart of Sam Houston State University, 6-1, 6-1, as well as Astrid Gehre of the University of Texas at Arlington, 6-2, 6-0.

She wrapped up her strong performance in singles with a three-set win over Lindsey Hodge from the rival Rice University in the semi-finals, 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2.