Halcomb Earns Second Team All-Horizon League HonorsApril 25, 2003 MILWAUKEE - Alyssa Halcomb was named to the Second Team All-Horizon League, the league office announced this afternoon. Halcomb, a freshman from Camarillo, Calif., becomes the first Panther to earn all-league recognition since Tori Whitlinger was named to the Midwestern Collegiate Conference First Team in 1998. Halcomb finished the regular season with a 6-12 overall record playing almost exclusively at No. 1 singles. In league play, she finished the season at 2-3 with wins over Cleveland State and Detroit. She also teamed with fellow freshman Margie Van Lieshout for a 2-3 league record at No. 1 doubles. She twice won the league's Player of the Week award, first for leading the Panthers to a win over Missouri-Kansas City on Oct. 12, 2002, snapping UWM's 27-match losing streak. Halcomb was honored again two weeks later after being the only Horizon League player to record an opening-round win at the ITA Great Lakes Regional on Oct. 24, 2002.
The Panthers open play in the Horizon League Women's Tennis Championship tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. with a match against the second-seed, Butler. Should UWM win, they would face the winner of No. 3 Wright State and No. 6 Youngstown State Saturday afternoon, while a Panther loss would find Milwaukee taking on the loser of that matchup, also on Saturday afternoon.
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