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Alena Skobina (left) and Dominika Hadnadova (right) were both named Second Team All-ECC.
Alena Skobina (left) and Dominika Hadnadova (right) were both named Second Team All-ECC.
Posted: Oct 31, 2016

Hadnadova, Skobkina Earn Second Team All-East Coast Conference Women’s Tennis Honors

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – The University of the District of Columbia's Dominika Hadnadova and Alena Skobkina were both named Women's Tennis Second Team All-East Coast Conference as voted on by the league's head coaches.

 

Hadnadova, a junior No. 1 singles and doubles player on the Firebirds women's tennis team, finished the fall season with an overall singles record of 5-4 (4-3 ECC) and doubles mark of 8-3 (5-2 ECC). Among her doubles wins, with Skobkina as her partner, were two victories over NYIT's Gabriela Siembab and Karolina Pondusova – both All-ECC First Team selections - and pivotal victories in all three, 5-4 Firebird victories this season vs. Daemen, Roberts Wesleyan and St. Thomas Aquinas. Hadnadova also won all three of her singles matches in those three straight, 5-4 dual match wins – including clutch match-clinching victories in the first two of those three matches vs. Daemen and Roberts Wesleyan.

 

This marks the second straight year Hadnadova has earned All-ECC recognition as she earned First Team All-ECC honors last season.

 

Skobkina, a senior No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles player for the Firebirds, finished the fall season 6-3 overall (5-2 ECC) in singles play and 8-3 (5-2) with Hadnadova in doubles. Like Hadnadova, she was key in helping UDC edge three straight teams by 5-4 verdicts, as she teamed with Hadnadova for No. 1 doubles wins and won her No. 2 singles matches in all three of those matches vs. Daemen, Roberts Wesleyan and St. Thomas Aquinas. She also earned an impressive, 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 victory over Ruth Arteza Martin of Queens College on September 10th.

 

This marks the second straight year Skobkina has earned Second Team All-ECC honors.

 

Hadnadova and Skobkina led the Firebirds to a 4-4 overall record this fall, including a 4-3 mark in ECC play. UDC earned an ECC Championship Tournament bid for the sixth consecutive year as a No. 4 seed where the Firebirds fell to No. 1 seed NYIT, who went on to earn its fifth consecutive ECC Championship.