Volz Earns Student-Athlete of the Year, Six Make Southland All-Academic Team

FRISCO, Texas – Marcel Volz continued a streak for the New Orleans Privateers after earning Southland Student-Athlete of the Year. He was one of six Privateers named to the All-Academic Team by the conference on Thursday.
 
Volz earned Student-Athlete of the Year, marking the third consecutive season a Privateer earned the honor. Volz, a junior academically, holds a 3.94 GPA in Computer Science. On the court, Volz was named the Southland Player of the Year.
 
Volz finished the year with 12 singles wins and 12 doubles victories. He had an overall record of 24-11 on the spring campaign while playing all but one singles match at flight one. He joins Ank Vullings (2020) and Johannes Klein (2021) as Privateer Student-Athletes of the Year.
 
Joining Volz on the All-Academic Team are Espen Lagarde (First Team), Max Heinzel (Second Team) and Luke Joujan (Second Team). Lagarde carries a 3.57 GPA as a Business Administration major. Joujan is at a 4.0 while Max Heinzel currently holds a 3.95. Both are also Business Administration majors.
 
Two women's student-athletes also made the list. Lina Hohnhold earned a First Team selection to go along with her First Team All-Conference honor. Hohnhold is a 4.0 student and earned her Master's in Psychology. On the court, she was 15-2 in singles play and 12-4 in doubles this year.
 
Ank Vullings made the All-Academic Team for the third consecutive season. A 4.0 student, Vullings earned her Master's in Accounting. In 2022, Vullings led the team in doubles victories with 14. She also added nine singles wins.
 
2022 Southland Men's Tennis Student-Athlete of the Year: Marcel Volz, New Orleans 
 
2022 Southland Men's Tennis All-Academic First Team 
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Name	School	Class	Hometown	Major	GPA
Warren Fulgenzi*2	UIW	Gr.	Las Vegas, NV	MS Sport Management	3.90
Marcel Volz*^	New Orleans	Jr.	Iffezheim, Germany	Computer Science	3.94
Espen Lagarde*	New Orleans	Jr.	Chavenay, France	Business Administration	3.57
Pavle Drobnjakovic*	Nicholls	Sr.	Belgrade, Serbia	Finance	3.72
Antonio Sasso	Nicholls	So.	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Business Administration	4.0
Pascal Lorieul2	A&M-Corpus Christi	Jr.	Cormeilles-EnParisis, Framce	Biomedical Sciences	3.97

 
2022 Southland Men's Tennis All-Academic Second Team 
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Name	School	Class	Hometown	Major	GPA
Marwin Kralemann	UIW	Jr.	Schwerte, Germany	Computer Information Systems	3.97
Amine El Kholti	NJIT	Jr.	Fez, Morocco	Business	3.98
Daniel Sabogal	NJIT	Jr.	Chia, Colombia	Mechanical Engineer	4.00
Luke Joujan	New Orleans	Jr.	Hamburg, Germany	Business Administration	4.00
Max Heinzel2	New Orleans	Jr.	Augsburg, Germany	Business Administration	3.95
Nathan Schwartz	A&M-Corpus Christi	Jr.	L'Isle Sur Sorgue, France	Business	3.88

 
 
2022 Southland Women's Tennis Student-Athlete of the Year: Emma Aucagne, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 
 
2022 Southland Women's Tennis All-Academic First Team 
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Name	Class	School	Hometown	Major	GPA
Amira Badawi	Jr.	NJIT	Cairo, Egypt	Business	3.84
Lina Hohnhold*	Gr.	New Orleans	Haan, Germany	Psychology	4.00
Viktorie Wojcikova*	So.	Northwestern State	Jistebnik 87, Czech Republic	Psychology	4.00
Mariella Minetti*	Jr.	Northwestern State	Tampere, Finland	Business Administration	3.84
Emma Aucagne*^	So.	A&M-Corpus Christi	Saint-Fons, France	Criminal Justice	3.95
Kateryna Rublevska	So.	A&M-Corpus Christi	Kharkiv, Ukraine	Management	4.00

 
2022 Southland Women's Tennis All-Academic Second Team 
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Name	Class	School	Hometown	Major	GPA
Aya El Sayed	Jr.	NJIT	Alexandria, Egypt	Business	3.83
Ank Vullings3	Gr.	New Orleans	Roermond, Netherlands	Accounting	4.00
Carla Bouygues	Jr.	Nicholls	Bout-du-Pont-de-Larn, France	Finance	3.74
Jessie Mount	Gr.	Nicholls	Melbourne, Australia	MS Mental Health Counseling	4.00
Putri Insani2	Jr.	Southeastern	Jakarta, Indonesia	Accounting	3.77
Camille Townsend	Sr.	A&M-Corpus Christi	Coconut Creek, Fla.	English	3.94

 
 
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