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Shannon Buck Wins ITA Regional Award
Senior earns Farnsworth/ITA Senior Player of the Year Award for Mountain Region
May 12, 2006 USAF ACADEMY, Colo. - Air Force men's tennis player Shannon Buck is the recipient of the 2006 Farnsworth/ITA Senior Player of the Year Award for the Mountain Region, presented by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The award is presented to the individual who has contributed the most to his team in the following areas; leadership, sportsmanship, tennis performance and tennis improvement during his collegiate career. The player must also have been ranked in the Top 50 nationally or Top 10 regionally during his senior year. Buck was selected from the region's 24 teams and will join the other seven regional winners and at-large players as finalists for the national award, which will be announced on Monday, May 22. The senior from Spokane, Wash., established himself as the best player in Air Force history during his four years at the Academy. He was a two-time Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, sharing the award as a freshman and winning it outright this season. He is the only player in school history to participate in two NCAA Division I Singles Championships, including winning a match at the 2005 tournament. Buck, who was ranked as high as No. 15 in the country earlier this spring, posted an outstanding 29-5 overall singles record during the 2005-06 campaign and was 18-1 in dual matches at the No. 1 position. He will graduate as the school's all-time leader in singles winning percentage in dual matches at 92.2 percent with an 83-7 record. He is also the only Falcon to be a four-time all-conference performer.
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