Kansas City, Mo. - Domingos Carissimo has been named the MIAA Men's Tennis Player of the Year as announced by the conference office today. The Bearcats had five singles players and two doubles teams named to one of the three All-MIAA teams.

Carissimo was also named 1st Team All-MIAA in #1 singles and #2 doubles with his partner Daniel Cardona. Kristof Kinal was the other Bearcat to earn 1st Team All-MIAA in singles, earning the honor in #2 singles.

The doubles team of Kinal/Omar El Kheshen were named 2nd Team All-MIAA in #1 singles, while El Kheshen (#3 singles), Daniel Cardona (#4 singles), and Guido Margiotta (#6 singles) were all named to the All-MIAA Honorable Mention team.

The Bearcats will travel to Ouachita Baptist on Tuesday, April 30 to take on the Tigers in the first round of the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships.

2013 ALL-MIAA MEN'S TENNIS TEAM

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Domingo Carissimo, Southwest Baptist

FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Sergio De Vilchez, Northwest Missouri 

COACH OF THE YEAR
Mark Rosewell, Northwest Missouri 

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
Guilherme Narducci, NWMSU

First Team
1S: Domingos Carissimo, Southwest Baptist
2S: Kritof Kinal, Southwest Baptist
3S: Pascal Laucht, Washburn**
4S: Alvaro Riveros, Northwest Missouri
5S: Guilherme Naducci, Northwest Missouri
6S: Chance Joost, Washburn
1D: Lluis Altimires/Sergio De Vilchez, Northwest Missouri
2D: Daniel Cardona/Domingos Carissimo, Southwest Baptist
3D: Chance Joost/Bobby Florence, Washburn
**Unanimous Selection

Second Team
1S: Sergio De Vilchez, Northwest Missouri
2S: Andrei Masin, Lindenwood
3S: Lluis Altimires, Northwest Missouri
4S: Steven Fletcher, Washburn
5S: Bobby Florence, Washburn
6S: Jason Harris, Northwest Missouri
1D: Omar El Kheshan/Kristof Kinal, Southwest Baptist
2D: Guilherme Narducci/Alvaro Riveros, Northwest Missouri
3D: Jack Nicholson/Arin Enge, Nebraska-Kearney 

Honorable Mention
#1S: Yeswanth Nadella, UNK; Rodrigo Traldi, LWU
#2S: Rafeal Bugiga, NWMSU; Thilo Schlenker, WU
#3S: Joe Murphy-Baum, TSU; Omar El Kheshan, SBU 
#4S: Daniel Cardona, SBU 
#5S: Jack Nicholson, UNK; Eddy Belhaouane, LWU
#6S: Guido Margiotta, SBU; Thiago Matroianni, LWU; Dylan Bernatzky, NWMSU
#1D: Steven Fletcher/Arek Kozaczuk, WU
#2D: Fletcher Sheridan/Revel Yehezkia, UNK; Adam King/Joe Murphy-Baum, TSU
#3D: Jason Harris/Dylan Bernatzky, NWMSU; Eddy Belhaouane/Yoshikazu Ysa, LWU