Complete WIAC Championship Results (http://www.wiacsports.com/tennis/08tournamentresults.html)

MADISON - The UW-Stevens Point women's tennis team finished in fifth place at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) women's tennis championship at the league meet that was held Oct. 25-26 at Nielsen Tennis Stadium.

UW-Whitewater finished as the first place team, their second straight WIAC women's tennis title.

The team title was determined by using a combination of the regular season dual meet standings and the conference championship results. The finish in the regular season conference standings accounted for one-third of the criteria, while the WIAC championship accounted for the remaining two-thirds.

The conference crown for the Warhawks is the ninth in school history and third time they have won back-to-back first-place trophies (1984-85, 1987-88). UW-Whitewater totaled 21 points in the final championship standings to outdistance UW-La Crosse's second-place total of 18. UW-Eau Claire finished third with 15, UW-Oshkosh fourth with 11, UW-Stevens Point fifth with 10, UW-Stout sixth with five and UW-River Falls seventh with four.

UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater advance to a team tournament to decide the conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division III Tournament. The WIAC team tournament will be held at UW-Whitewater the weekend prior to the NCAA championship in the spring.

During the two-day conference championship, UW-Whitewater won all six singles titles and all three doubles crowns. Former league member Marquette University is the only other program to win all nine individual titles at the WIAC championship - accomplishing the feat in 1982.

Top finishers for the Pointers included No. 3 seeded Chelsea Allbaugh (Bettendorf, IA/Pleasant Valley) (Bettendorf, Iowa) who finished second at the No. 2 singles position, falling to UWW's Ingrid Stensvaag 6-2, 6-2.  Allbaugh and teammate Rachel Benn (Stevens Point/SPASH) (Stevens Point) also finished second at the No. 1 doubles, falling to Kalla Schaefer & Amy Siemon of Whitewater.

Elsewhere Kaylei Sorensen (Plover, WI/SPASH) (Plover) finished fourth at No. 4 singles and along with teammate Emily Riordan (Appleton/North) (Appleton), finished fifth at No. 2 doubles. 

UW-Whitewater head coach Frank Barnes was voted the Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season, while UW-Stout's Jodie Czech received the Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete Award.

Named to the All-Sportsmanship Team were: UW-Eau Claire's Brenna McCormick, UW-La Crosse's Katie McDonald, UW-Oshkosh's Brittany Braasch, UW-River Falls' Kathryne Ostrowski, UW-Stevens Point's Kaitlyn King (Plover/Stevens Point Pacelli), UW-Stout's Kiersten Thomsen and UW-Whitewater's Jenny Woyahn.