Men's Tennis | 5/8/2019 4:28:00 PM

MELBOURNE, Fla. – The Sunshine State Conference announced their men's tennis All-Conference teams Wednesday afternoon, with the Buccaneers having seven different players named to All-SSC teams and Bucs head coach George Samuel earning SSC Coach of the Year. Seventeen student-athletes have been named to the 2019 All-SSC men's tennis teams, Barry University, SSC regular season and tournament champion, claims 13 total awards including Coach of the Year. Voting for the All-SSC teams was conducted among the league's men's tennis coaches.
 
Men's Tennis All-SSC History: All-SSC Teams | Athletes & Coaches of the Year
 
League tennis coaches named Samuel as Coach of the Year after going 20-1 overall and 8-0 in SSC play this season. Under Samuel's instruction, No. 2 Barry will head to a 25th straight regional following the team's 15th conference tournament title. Samuel now owns the second most SSC Coach of the Year awards in a single sport after collecting his 16th this year³. Factoring in women's tennis, Samuel has collected the most Coach of the Year awards in SSC history⁴.
 
Barry's Pierre Montrieul highlights the repeat All-Conference honorees for 2019. Montrieul is named All-SSC for the fourth consecutive year, including back-to-back awards at first team singles. In total, eight of the nine upperclassman award winners repeat as All-SSC in 2019. Carlos Gomez, Vivien Versier, and Daniel Ventura are all repeat winners and make appearances across the awards list. The duo of Alejandro Ibanez Gallego and Alejandro Ortega Palacios join Montrieul and Blake Bayldon on the All-SSC Men's First Team Doubles list.
   

2019 All-SSC Men's First Team Singles
Name	School	Year	Hometown
Nicolo De Fraia	Rollins	Sr.	Cagliari, Italy
Bruno Faletto	Saint Leo	Fr.	Cakovec, Croatia
Pierre Montrieul*^~	Barry	Jr.	Beaumont, France
Andres Donayre†‡	Embry-Riddle	Jr.	Lima, Peru
Carlos Gomez‡@^#!	Barry	Jr.	Elche, Spain
Lucca Baptista	Lynn	So.	Porto Alegre, Brazil
2019 All-SSC Men's First Team Doubles
Name	School	Year	Hometown
Kay Bartmann† / Florian Clemares‡@%	Lynn	Sr. / Gr.	Stuttgart, Germany / Lyon, France
Alejandro Ibañez Gallego / Alejandro Ortega Palacios	Barry	So. / So.	Puertollano, Spain / Madrid, Spain
Pierre Montrieul*^~ / Blake Bayldon	Barry	Sr. / So.	Moreno, Argentina / Dural, Australia
2019 All-SSC Men's Second Team Singles
Name	School	Year	Hometown
Guillermo Nicolas-Ruiz&	Rollins	Sr.	Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain
Alejandro Ibañez Gallego	Barry	So.	Puertollano, Spain
Kay Bartmann†	Lynn	Sr.	Stuttgart, Germany
Alejandro Ortega Palacios	Barry	So.	Madrid, Spain
Vivien Versier*@^	Barry	Sr.	Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Atakan Gezer	Rollins	So.	Istanbul, Turkey
Ghali Mensour	Saint Leo	Fr.	Casablanca, Morocco
2019 All-SSC Men's Second Team Doubles
Name	School	Year	Hometown
Nicolo De Fraia / Frederick Danielson	Rollins	Sr. /  So.	Cagliari, Italy / Memphis, Tenn.
Bruno Faletto / Leonardo Vega	Saint Leo	Fr. / So.	Santiago, Chile / Lake Mary, Fla.
Carlos Gomez‡@^#! / Vivien Versier*@^	Barry	Jr. / Sr.	Elche, Spain / Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
2019 All-SSC Men's Honorable Mention - Singles
Name	School	Year	Hometown
Daniel Ventura‡	Barry	Sr.	Sic de Tenerife, Spain

 
* = 2018 First Team Singles        † = 2018 First Team Doubles      ‡ = 2018 Second Team Singles    @ = 2018 Second Team Doubles
& = 2018 Honorable Mention     ^ = 2017 First Team Doubles      # = 2017 Second Team Singles    % = 2017 Second Team Doubles
! = 2017 Freshman of the Year   ~ = 2016 Second Team Singles
 
¹ Previous Athlete of the Year award winners from Rollins: Edwin Hendriksen (1995), Jon Goldfarb (1996), Matt Porter (2001), Carlos Custodio (2004), Jeff Morris (2010), Lucas Jovita (2012)
² Previous Freshman of the Year award winners from Saint Leo: Victor Lozier (2011) & Alberto Barroso-Campos (2016)
³ Tampa's Chris Catanach (Volleyball) has the most SSC Coach of the Year awards at 18.
⁴ Samuel has won 16 men's and four women's tennis Coach of the Year awards.