UCSB WTEN Headshots 2025
Jeff LIang

Amelia Honer

  • Award
    Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/19/2025
  • Sport
    Women's Tennis
  • School
    UC Santa Barbara
  • Year
    Senior
  • Position
  • Hometown
    Newtown, Pa.
  • High School
    Council Rock North HS
  • UC Santa Barbara senior Amelia Honer won two ranked matches, one in singles and one in doubles, to earn The Big West Women's Tennis Player of the Week. It is Honer's reocrd 14th career weekly honor, the most in the history of the conference and breaking the tie with UC Irvine's Becky Bernhard. The Newtown, Pa. native has now won the award twice this year, four times last season, six times in 2023 and twice in 2022. 
  • On Friday at Arizona, the 17th-ranked pair of Honer and Marie Weissheim triumphed over No. 28 Midori Castillo-Meza  and Martyna Ostrzygalo 6-2 in No. 1 doubles and helped the Gauchos earn the doubles point. Honer defeated 34th-ranked Josie Usereau 6-3, 6-1 in No. 1 singles. 
     
  • On Saturday against Texas Tech, Honer and Weissheim did not finish their match against No. 6 Mariia Hlahola and Avelina Sayfetdinova in No. 1 doubles. The Gaucho senior downed Sayfetdinova in No. 1 singles 6-4, 6-0. 
     
  • Honer is currently 6-0 in singles on the year, all in the No. 1 position, and ranked 14th in the latest ITA National Rankings.