2012 Men’s Tennis All-Americans Announced

By Jake Knabel, NAIA Communications & Sports Information Intern

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced the 2012 Men's Tennis All-Americans. Players were selected by the All-America committee. The list of honorees includes 16 student-athletes on each of the first and second teams, plus 18 honorable mentions.

National champion Oklahoma Christian tied Fresno Pacific (Calif.) and Embry-Riddle (Fla.) for the most All-Americans with four apiece. Oklahoma Christian’s Bruno Tiberti, named the Ward-Ballinger Most Outstanding Player following Saturday’s title match, heads the quartet of Eagle All-Americans. It is the second-straight First Team All-America honor for the sophomore from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Other repeat First Team All-Americans include Azusa Pacific’s (Calif.) Janosch Apelt and Jochem Hoefnagels, Embry-Riddle’s Chris Freeman, Fresno Pacific’s Xavier Smith and Kirill Sinitsyn, Oklahoma Christian’s Martin Poboril, Vanguard’s (Calif.) Lucas Pereira, Westmont’s (Calif.) Bryan Cox and William Carey’s (Miss.) Jody Claassen.

All-Americans by class:
Senior: 10
Junior: 6
Sophomore: 12
Freshman: 4

First Team
Name	School	Class	Hometown
Aaron Hendrick	Aquinas (Mich.)	So.	Grand Rapids, Mich.
Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff	Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)	Fr.	Barcelona, Spain
Janosch Apelt	Azusa Pacific (Calif.)	Sr.	Frankfurt, Germany
Jochem Hoefnagels	Azusa Pacific (Calif.)	Jr.	Asten, Netherlands
Bruno Santarelli	Concordia (Calif.)	Sr.	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chris Freeman	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	Jr.	Costa Mesa, Calif.
Patrick Besch	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	So.	Mainz, Germany
Xavier Smith	Fresno Pacific (Calif.)	Sr.	Visalia, Calif.
Kirill Sinitsyn	Fresno Pacific (Calif.)	Jr.	Toronto, Canada
Fernando Bogajo	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	Fr.	Malaga, Spain
Bruno Tiberti	Oklahoma Christian	So.	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Martin Poboril	Oklahoma Christian	Jr.	Pribram, Czech Republic
Lucas Pereira	Vanguard (Calif.)	Sr.	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bryan Cox	Westmont (Calif.)	Sr.	Alamo, Calif.
Jody Claassen	William Carey (Miss.)	So.	Cape Town, South Africa
Loic Didavi	Xavier (La.)	Jr.	Cotonou, Benin
Second Team
Name	School	Class	Hometown
Bence Toth	Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)	Jr.	Budapest, Hungary
Carlos Anton	Campbellsville University (Ky.)	Sr.	Zamora, Spain
Antonio Manuel Marcelo	Cumberland (Tenn.)	Fr.	Cascais, Portugal
Adrian Bayh	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	Sr.	Stuttgart, Germany
Simon Felix	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)	So.	Geneva, Switzerland
Nathan Martinet	Fresno Pacific (Calif.)	So.	Pau, France
Cledson Carvalho	Fresno Pacific (Calif.)	Sr.	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vladislav Khudziy	Huntington (Ind.)	So.	Moscow, Russia
Fabricio Morales	Lindsey Wilson (Ky.)	So.	Cancun, Mexico
Jaime Sanchez-Canamares	Oklahoma Christian	So.	Albacete, Spain
Pier Pieracciani	Oklahoma Christian	Sr.	Salvador, Brazil
Roger Muri	Vanguard (Calif.)	Fr.	Zurich, Switzerland
Tim Goranson	Westmont (Calif.)	So.	Falkenberg, Sweden
Rodrigo Schaefer	Westmont (Calif.)	So.	Florianopolis, Brazil
Ricky Keppeler	William Carey (Miss.)	So.	Stuttgart, Germany
Zach Taylor	Xavier (La.)	Sr.	Monroe, La.
Honorable Mention
Name	School
Nik Artaev	Aquinas (Mich.)
Marlu Jansen Van Vuuren	Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)
Joshua Reason	Auburn Montgomery (Ala.)
Benedikt Eger	Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Frederik Wilkens	Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Jefferson Nino	Belhaven (Miss.)
Peter Francis	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
David Spennare	Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
Amarit Sanchez	Fresno Pacific (Calif.)
Lloyd Bruce-Burgess	Fresno Pacific (Calif.)
Renardy Guelfi	Oklahoma Christian
Nicolas Auruccio	Oklahoma Christian
Julian Kurz	Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)
David Darling	Spring Arbor (Mich.)
Thomas Caldrone	Spring Arbor (Mich.)
Julian Ramirez	Warner (Fla.)
Thomas Rizk	William Carey (Miss.)
Viktor Svoboda	Xavier (La.)