FERRIS' BARBORA JILKOVA CLAIMS LEAGUE'S HIGHEST AWARD
Senior Captain Garners GLIAC Player Of The Year Accolades
 | Ferris State senior Barbora Jilkova claimed the 2003 GLIAC Player of the Year Award |
Senior captain Barbora Jilkova (Prague, Czech Republic/Gymnazium Holesovice) of the 2003-04 Ferris State University women’s tennis team has been named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Player of the Year in an announcement made today (Oct. 28) by the league office. The league’s 11 head coaches participated in the balloting process.
Jilkova, who is the 10th Ferris player and first since Jennifer Garvey in 2000 to claim the league’s highest individual honor, also garnered first-team All-GLIAC kudos and was one of two Bulldog players to receive all-conference recognition as sophomore Laura Schaefer (St. Cloud, Minn./Apollo) attained seocond-team all-league laurels. Nine student-athletes were named to both the first and second-team squads.
A four-time (1999-03) first-team All-GLIAC honoree, Jilkova compiled a 14-5 overall singles record and was 20-4 in doubles action during the fall campaign for league runner-up Ferris State. The three-time regional doubles champion (2000-01 and 2003) presently ranks fourth on both the school's career singles and doubles victory lists with a 79-29 (.731) singles mark and a 95-31 (.754) doubles ledger.
Jilkova, a 2001-02 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division II Doubles All-America performer, teamed with Schaefer to claim the 2003 ITA Great Lakes Region Doubles Championship in Indianapolis, Ind. (9/21). The duo then placed seventh overall in the 2003 ITA National Small College Championships (10/16-19) at Corpus Christi, Texas.
One of only two All-America performers in school history, Jilkova paired with Garvey (1998-02) and compiled Ferris’ third-best single-season doubles record (29-4) along with the program’s top single-season doubles victory percentage (.879) during the 2001-02 campaign en route to a fifth-place finish at the 2001 ITA National Small College Tennis Championships (10/18) in Plano, Texas.
The 5-9 Jilkova concluded her four-year GLIAC career with a combined 85-10 (.895) league regular-season singles and doubles record.
Schaefer was 12-5 overall in singles play and 20-4 in doubles competition this fall. The 2002 All-GLIAC Honorable Mention pick registered both a 9-1 singles and doubles record in league play this campaign, including a 4-0 mark at the number two singles flight.
Ferris State concluded the fall campaign with an 11-2 overall mark under fourth-year head coach Dave Ramos. The Bulldogs, who have presently won 183 of their last 187 league regular-season matches, placed second overall at the 2003 GLIAC Championships held last weekend (Oct. 24-25) at the Midland Community Tennis Center in Midland, Mich.
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