Wall of Honor
Patrick Rittenauer is just the second male athlete at Barry to earn All-America honors all four years. He posted a four-year record of 56-13 in singles and 73-16 in doubles. He is one of just seven players in program history to post at least 70 doubles wins and has the best winning percentage among them at 82.0 percent. In four years, he helped lead the Bucs to two trips to the NCAA quarterfinals, once to the semifinals, and once to the finals. Barry posted an 80-16 mark, including 20-5 in the SSC, and a pair of conference titles from 2005 to 2008. In 2005 he earned the conference’s Freshman of the Year award and Player To Watch title from the ITA.
Academically, Rittenauer was a three-time ITA Scholar All-American and two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American. In 2006-07, he was named the Scholar-Athlete of the Year in the Sunshine State Conference and went on to claim the regional scholar-athlete award from the D-II Conference Commissioner’s Association.
He also was just the second Buccaneer in program history to earn Athlete of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the same season. He earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 2008.
