DALLAS – UTSA’s Juri Reckow was named the C-USA Male Tennis Athlete of the Week with a singles win over a ranked opponent. Diae El Jardi of Rice earned Female Tennis Athlete of the Week honors following key wins in a pair of Owl victories, including a Top 25 foe. All weekly awards are presented by Surf & Turf Golf.
 
C-USA Male Athlete of the Week – Juri Reckow, UTSA, Sr., Hamburg, Germany
Reckow picked up a court 1 win over the nation’s No. 84 ranked player, Angel Diaz at UT Arlington, on Saturday (6-4, 6-2) leading UTSA to a win over the Mavs. He also claimed a court 1 win by default at SMU. The senior is off to a 5-1 start on the year in singles, earning two wins on the No. 1 line. The returning all-conference performer has won five consecutive singles points, picked up a win at LSU earlier in the year and has compiled two doubles wins.
  
C-USA Female Athlete of the Week – Diae El Jardi, Rice, Jr., Casablanca, Morocco
El Jardi posted an unbeaten slate and played a key role in the Owls’ wins over Wichita State and 25^th- ranked Arizona State. Her singles win against the Shockers completed the Owls’ first rally to win after losing the doubles point since 2018. The junior opened play against the Sun Devils by clinching the doubles point with Maria Budin, picking up their second win over a top 50 doubles team in their last three matches.  She followed that effort up with a swift straight-set win in singles to add the first point in singles to build the momentum that resulted in Rice’s first win over a team ranked in the top 25 since 2017.
 
2021 C-USA Male Athletes of the Week
J20      Sebastian Rodriguez, UTSA
J27      Francisco Rocha, Middle Tennessee
F3        Pavel Motl, Middle Tennessee
F10      Olle Wallin, Charlotte
F17      Francisco Rocha, Middle Tennessee
F24      Luca Maldoner, Old Dominion
M3       Juri Reckow, UTSA
 
2021 C-USA Female Athletes of the Week
J20      Federica Trevisan, Rice
J27      Natalia Boltinskaya, Florida Atlantic
F3        Kaavya Sawhney, Charlotte
F10      Maria Budin, Rice
F17      Yulia Starodubtseva, Old Dominion
F24      Kamila Umarova, FIU
M3       Diae El Jardi, Rice