ST. LOUIS – After sweeping the regular season and earning the No. 1 seed in this weekend's Missouri Valley Conference Tennis Championship, Illinois State collected a slew of honors Thursday from the league office. Freshman Tijana Zlatanovic was named the league's Player and Freshman of the Year in the annual vote of league coaches and ISU head coach Maja Kovacek was named the MVC Coach of the Year among other honors.
With a stellar start to her collegiate career, Zlatanovic became the first student-athlete in league history to earn both the Player of the Year and the Freshman of the Year in the same season.