NATCHITOCHES – A pair of Northwestern State tennis players have been recognized as two of the state's top players.
 
Sophomores Mariella Minetti and Viktorie Wojcikova earned first-team recognition on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Women's College Tennis Team, which was announced Tuesday afternoon by the organization.
 
The pair's first-team honors made NSU, the Southland Conference regular-season champion, one of two teams to place multiple players on the six-member first team. Tulane also had a pair of first-team selections.
 
It is the first time since 2010 the Lady Demons have produced multiple first-team All-Louisiana selections.
 
Minetti, a Tampere, Finland, native, was a first-team All-Southland Conference selection at No. 3 singles and part of a second-team No. 1 doubles pair. She posted a 15-3 overall mark in singles play, including a 6-0 mark in Southland play, and was 12-5 in doubles play.
 
Minetti's .833 winning percentage at No. 3 is tied for sixth in school single-season history at that singles position.
 
Wojcikova matched her teammates' singles mark, going 14-3 at No. 5 singles and 1-0 at No. 4 singles this season. She added a 15-3 doubles mark with teammate Rozi Dohnalova, earning first-team All-Southland Conference honors at No. 5 singles and No. 2 doubles with Dohnalova.

Wojcikova's .824 winning percentage at No. 5 singles is the fourth-best single-season mark in school history.
 
Like Minetti, Wojcikova was undefeated in Southland singles play and notched a perfect conference mark in doubles play. Wojcikova, a native of the Czech Republic, won her final 10 singles matches of the season.
 
The pair of sophomores are the first NSU players to earn first-team All-Louisiana acclaim since Polina Mutel in 2018.
 
 
 
2022 LOUISIANA SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION WOMEN'S COLLEGE TENNIS TEAM 
FIRST TEAM 
Safiya Carrington, LSU   
Lina Hohnhold, New Orleans 
Mariella Minetti, Northwestern State 
Charlotte Russell, Tulane 
Viktorie Wojchikova, Northwestern State 
Lahari Yelamanchili, Tulane 
 
SECOND TEAM 
Lucy Carpenter, Loyola 
Najah Dawson, Louisiana Tech 
Kareemah Muhammad, Xavier 
Alicia Romero Gomez, LSU Alexandria 
Olivia Scattini, LSU Alexandria 
Ilana Tetruashvili, Louisiana Tech 
 
HONORABLE MENTION 
Annemart Kleijn, LSU Alexandria; Patricia Martinez Molina, LSU Alexandria; Jiayun Zhu Tulane. 
 
WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE YEAR 
Lahari Yelamanchili, Tulane 
 
WOMEN'S NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 
Najah Dawson, Louisiana Tech 
 
WOMEN'S FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR 
Kareemah Muhammad, Xavier 
 
WOMEN'S COACH OF THE YEAR 
Melinda Descant, LSU Alexandria