The Intercollegiate Tennis Affiliation is happy to announce Military’s Caroline Vincent because the 2022 ITA Ann Lebedeff Management Award Winner as endowed by Billie Jean King.
“Caroline is a championship human being on and off the courtroom, embodying what’s nice about faculty tennis,” stated ITA CEO Dr. Timothy Russell. “Caroline has exhibited management that follows within the footsteps of each Billie Jean King and Ann Lebedeff and exemplifies how tennis is a frontrunner on the planet of intercollegiate athletics. We congratulate Caroline and want her properly, figuring out that she is going to proceed to do nice issues.”
As a 4 12 months starter and present crew captain of the Military Girls’s Tennis crew, Vincent shall be honored with a postgraduate scholarship and particular recognition on the ITA Awards Weekend in New York later this 12 months. Moreover, the Military Girls’s Tennis crew shall be awarded a $1,000 donation from the ITA in her honor.
“I’m extraordinarily completely happy and pleased with Caroline for receiving the Ann Lebedeff Management Award,” said Military Girls’s Head Coach Paul Peck. “Caroline epitomizes all of the qualities of a frontrunner and scholar athlete in faculty athletics. She is the last word crew participant and units an instance for the youthful gamers on our crew. I stay up for seeing what she is going to accomplish in her future endeavors.”
Even earlier than her time at West Level, Vincent’s upbringing had been rooted by two ideas; public service and tennis. Following these two ideas, Vincent has not solely made an enduring affect on the courtroom however off of it as properly.
Popping out of highschool, Vincent was a highly-touted recruit who had a number of Division I scholarship gives accessible to her. Nevertheless, for Vincent, her choice to attend Military was a straightforward one as she knew right here she would proceed to work in the direction of targets bigger than herself whereas fulfilling her passions of public service and tennis.
On the courtroom, Vincent’s profession at Military was particular in and of itself. Incomes First Group All-Patriot League honors this season, Vincent has additionally earned Second Group All-Patriot League honors in 2021, Patriot League Doubles Group of the 12 months honors in 2021, and helped her crew to a Patriot League title and NCAA event look in 2022.
As spectacular as Vincent’s accolades have been on the courtroom, the place she actually shined and made the largest affect was off the courtroom and in the neighborhood.
At West Level, Vincent is a frontrunner inside the Corps of Cadets and has not too long ago been named Battalion Commander the place she oversees over 380 cadets starting from freshmen to seniors.
Moreover, after Vincent was named a crew captain within the 2021-22 season, she instantly took the initiative to succeed in out to a number of native nonprofits that serve the neighborhood. Simply these previous few months alone, Vincent and the Military Girls’s Tennis crew volunteered at a soup kitchen and meals shelter whereas serving as outreach representatives inside their native communities.
By way of all of it, Vincent has been in a position to construct on her private foundations of public service and tennis throughout her time at Military. Despite the fact that her time at West Level has now come to an finish, Vincent’s affect shall be felt for years to return.
“I’m so grateful for tennis and the methods it has impacted my path, the individuals it introduced into my life, and the teachings it taught me,” says Vincent. “Though my faculty tennis days are over, I’m keen to stay related with the tennis neighborhood and discover methods to present again to the game I like.”
The ITA Ann Lebedeff Management Award endowed by Billie Jean King was created to honor a current faculty graduate who performed faculty tennis and demonstrated excellence on and off the courtroom, management on his or her crew in addition to on his or her faculty campus and in his or her neighborhood. The recipient of the award may have demonstrated grit (i.e. ardour and perseverance in the direction of long-term targets), a dedication to social justice and equality, and may have pushed others to be leaders along with demonstrating his or her personal management.
Vincent is the fifth recipient of the award. She joins Victoria Flores of Georgia Tech (2021), Daniel Park of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (2020), Andrew Akins of Duquesne (2019), and Nithya Kanagasegar of Case Western Reserve (2018) as winners of the award.
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