Lance Wilhelm Named Men's Tennis MVP
    Freshman led team with 20 singles wins

    Lance Wilhelm is the fourth freshman to win the MVP award
    Lance Wilhelm is the fourth freshman to win the MVP award

    May 10, 2010

    The Air Force men's tennis program honored the 2009-10 team at its annual banquet on Tuesday, May 4. Freshman Lance Wilhelm was named the team's Most Valuable Player for the '09-10 season, while Taylor Soster was named team captain for the 2010-11 campaign.

    Wilhelm, from Gig Harbor, Wash., became just the fourth freshman in the history of the program to earn the MVP award, following Jason Anderson (1997), Shannon Buck (2003) and Cody Hall (`09). He led the Falcons with 20 overall singles wins and 13 dual match wins this season, all at the No. 1 position, the most at that spot by a Falcon since Buck had 18 in 2006.

    Wilhelm opened the season with a 6-3, 6-4 triumph over Yannick Weihs of Denver, the Mountain Region's second-ranked player, and posted AFA's first singles victory over BYU since 2006 with a 6-1, 3-6, 7-6(2) victory over Evan Urbina in his first career MWC match.

    Soster, meanwhile, paired with senior Brett Rodgers to post an impressive 21-12 overall doubles record, the first 20-win season by an AFA doubles team since 2003, when current assistant coach Tyler McClung and Eric Pittman combined for a 25-6 mark.

    A junior from Allen, Texas, Soster played all but one of his singles matches at the No. 3 position, with his biggest win coming in a 4-3 victory over service-academy rival Army. Soster defeated Chris Albornoz, 6-4, 6-2, at the No. 3 spot less than 24 hours after suffering food poisoning.

    Air Force finished the season, the first under new head coach Dan Oosterhous, with a 10-13 overall record.

     

     

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