Mackenzy Middlebrooks Named SEC Player of the Week
2/20/2019 11:50:00 AM | Tennis
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou tennis junior Mackenzy Middlebrooks (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week, the league office announced on Wednesday. Middlebrooks is the first Tiger tennis player to claim SEC weekly honors since Missouri joined the conference, and the first to earn any conference player of the week award since Yelena Olshanskaya on April 20, 2004.
Middlebrooks reeled of her fourth and fifth consecutive wins at No. 1 singles to help the Mizzou to a pair of 4-3 wins last weekend. Against Memphis on Feb. 15, Middlebrooks fought back from a 5-3 third set deficit to claim a 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Alisha Reayer in the match-clinching victory for Missouri. One day later, Middlebrooks helped Mizzou recover from a 3-0 deficit to take down Minnesota, 4-3. She posted her fifth-straight win with a 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-2 defeat of the Golden Gophers' Tina Kreinis.
Middlebrooks owns an 8-1 singles record this spring, including 7-1 mark at No. 1 action, and is 14-3 overall on the season.
Middlebrooks and the Mizzou tennis team return to the court for a doubleheader on Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Mizzou Tennis Complex. The Tigers host Central Arkansas at 1 p.m. before a 5 p.m. match against Missouri State.
