ALEX STATER, CAL POLY
MEN'S TENNIS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Senior • Bethesda, Md.
• Cal Poly senior Alex Stater garnered his second career Big West Men’s Tennis Athlete of the Week award after a solid victory at No. 1 singles.
• Stater defeated Pepperdine’s top-ranked singles player, Adrian Oetzbach, in a three-set battle. Stater won by scores of 6-2, 3-6, 10-7 to improve to 6-1 on the year in singles matches. He moved up to the No. 1 singles spot in the lineup for the first time.
• He has won four straight matches.
• Stater and partner Gary Vardanyan also took on Pietro Fellin and Daniel DeJonge in a close clash at No. 3 doubles, with the Wave duo ultimately prevailing, 6-4. The Mustangs ended up losing the match by a narrow 4-3 margin.
OTHERS NOMINATED: Andrei Volgin (UC Davis); Matthew Sah (UC Irvine)