Five Receive Ivy League Post-Season Awards

PRINCETON, N.J. – Four members of the Dartmouth men's tennis team were named to the 2015 All-Ivy Men's Tennis Teams, as announced by the league office on Thursday.

Senior Dovydas Sakinis was tabbed to the first team for singles, while classmate Brendan Tannenbaum and junior George Wall were on the first team for doubles and junior Max Schmidt was selected to the second team for doubles play. In addition to those four players, head coach Chris Drake was named Coach of the Year.

This is the third year in a row that Sakinis has been named to the first team for singles play. He played at the No. 1 position for every match and ended the regular season with a record of 12-10. He was nationally ranked for the entirety of the two month season, sitting as high as No. 18 in January. He ended the year on a five-match winning streak.

Tannenbaum and Wall were a doubles force to be reckoned with. During tournament play, they were paired with different partners and only started playing together five matches into dual match season. They went 6-3 at No. 2 before being bumped to the top spot, where they would stay for the remainder of the season, going 6-1. They appeared in the ITA National rankings for the final five matches of the season, sitting as high as No. 61, which came during the final week of the regular season.

Throughout the season, Schmidt played mostly at the No. 2 and 3 doubles positions, going 10-2 at No. 2 and 5-6 at No. 3. He played an equal number of matches with sophomore Max Fliegner and freshman Roko Glasnovic, playing the last eight matches of the season with the latter. He and Glasnovic were on a six-match unbeaten streak before a loss to Yale cut that short. The duo won their final match against Harvard last weekend.

Drake is in his sixth season at the helm of the Big Green program and has compiled an overall record of 90-48 and a 25-17 in Ivy League play throughout his time in Hanover, after going 18-8 and 6-1 in 2016. Dartmouth finished second in the conference behind Columbia. This is the highest the team has finished under Drake, after tying for second with Harvard last season. Drake was last year's ITA Northeast Regional Coach of the Year.

The Big Green spent the entirety of the 2016 season in the national rankings, being ranked as high as No. 34 (Feb. 5 – Feb. 14). They faced 14 ranked opponents during the year, defeating eight of them.

Teams invited to the NCAA Championship will be announced on Tuesday, May 5. Individuals selected for the singles and doubles championship will be announced the following day.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
*Shawn Hadavi, Columbia (Jr. - Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
David Volfson, Cornell (Fr. - Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)

COACH OF THE YEAR
Chris Drake, Dartmouth

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
Peter Tarwid, Brown (So. - Lake Forest, Ill.)
*Shawn Hadavi, Columbia (Jr. - Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
*David Volfson, Cornell (Fr. - Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)
*Dovydas Sakinis, Dartmouth (Sr. - Siauliai, Lithuania)
Nicholas Hu, Harvard (Sr. - Palo Alto, Calif.)
Kyle Mautner, Penn (Fr. - Greenwich, Conn.)

Doubles
Mike Vermeer, Columbia (Sr. - Steinsel, Luxembourg)
Colin Sinclair, Cornell (Jr. - Brisbane, Australia)
David Volfson, Cornell (Fr. - Thornhill, Ontario, Canada)
Brendan Tannenbaum, Dartmouth (Sr. - Indianapolis)
George Wall, Dartmouth (Jr. - Hope Island, Queensland, Australia)
Nicholas Hu, Harvard (Sr. - Palo Alto, Calif.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
Victor Pham, Columbia (Fr. - Saratoga, Calif.)
Eric Rubin, Columbia (Sr. - Long Beach, N.Y.)
Mike Vermeer, Columbia (Sr. - Steinsel, Luxembourg)
Colin Sinclair, Cornell (Jr. - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
Thomas Colautti, Princeton (Jr. - London)
Diego Vives, Princeton (So. - Santiago, Chile)

Doubles
Shawn Hadavi, Columbia (Jr. - Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.)
Michal Rolski, Columbia (So. - Kielczow, Poland)
Max Schmidt, Dartmouth (Jr. - Morris Plains, N.J.)
Brian Yeung, Harvard (Jr. - Hong Kong)
Alexander Day, Princeton (Jr. - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Luke Gamble, Princeton (So. - Boise, Idaho)

*Unanimous Selection

Schedules

Players Mentioned

Max Fliegner

Roko Glasnovic

Dovydas Sakinis

Dovydas Sakinis

Max Schmidt

Max Schmidt

Brendan Tannenbaum

Brendan Tannenbaum

George Wall

George Wall

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Schedules

Completed Event: Men's Tennis versus Dartmouth Invite #1 on September 12, 2025 ,

Completed Event: Men's Tennis at ITA on September 20, 2025 ,

Upcoming Event: Men's Tennis at ITA Regionals on October 8, 2025

Upcoming Event: Men's Tennis at University of Pennsylvania on October 24, 2025

Upcoming Event: Men's Tennis versus Dartmouth Invite #2 on October 31, 2025

Upcoming Event: Men's Tennis versus NCAA Tournament on November 18, 2025