LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With COVID-19 putting fall sports on the shelf this season, the Bellarmine Athletics Communication staff is using part of this time to shine the spotlight on some of the top student-athletes of the past 10 years by naming the Bellarmine All-Decade teams. The teams recognize student-athletes who competed for the Knights at least two seasons from the 2010-11 school year to the 2019-20 year. 
  
Today, we name the Bellarmine All-Decade Team for Women's Tennis, which consists of six players.

Ashley Jonathan (2016-present)
Jonathan was named All-Great Lakes Valley Conference as a sophomore and junior. Last season, the Westfield, Indiana, native was the winner of the ITA's national Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award after she had received the Midwest Region honor.

With one season left, Jonathan ranks second in program history in career wins (139) and is only eight shy of leader Maggie Walroth. She ranks second in career doubles wins (75) and fifth in career singles victories (64). Jonathan's 41 total wins as a sophomore are a single-season program record and her 39 as a freshman are tied for second. She and Walroth are the winningest doubles team in program history after amassing 57 victories together.

Jonathan earned the GLVC Brother Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award (4.0 GPA for academic year) in 2019-20 and was recognized as an ITA Scholar-Athlete. She is an Academic All-GLVC mainstay.

Marissa Kovach (2014-18)
Kovach is ranked third on the program's all-time wins list (121). The native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is second in career singles wins (75) and 10th in career doubles victories (46). Kovach owns two of the top-8 marks for single-season singles wins.

In singles play, Kovach went 15-3 as a freshman, 18-8 as a sophomore, 19-6 as a junior and 23-6 as a senior. She posted a 19-3 GLVC singles record, never dropping more than one conference match in any season and tallying at least four league wins every year.

Kovach received the GLVC Council of Presidents Academic Excellence Award (exhaust eligibility while maintaining 3.5 cumulative GPA) and was an Academic All-GLVC fixture.

Rebecca Porter (2008-12)
Porter is the most decorated player in program history. The native of Greenwood, Indiana, is the program's lone GLVC Player of the Year, an honor bestowed upon her as a sophomore in 2010. The previous season, she was named GLVC Freshman of the Year. Porter was a four-time All-GLVC honoree.

Porter ranks fifth in career wins (110) in program history. She is fourth in career singles wins (65). Her 34 victories as a junior rank 11th for a single season in program history. Of those, 21 were singles wins, which ranks third for a single season in program history. In her GLVC Player of the Year campaign, Porter went 18-3 overall in singles play, including 6-0 in conference action. She was 14-2 at No. 1 singles.

Porter earned the GLVC Council of Presidents Academic Excellence Award and was annually Academic All-GLVC.

Jennifer Skonieczny (2016-20)
Ultimately, Skonieczny's senior season — and thus her career — was cut short due to the coronavirus. Even without an entire GLVC regular season and GLVC Tournament plus multiple remaining nonconference matches her last go-around, the native of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, still finished her career eighth on the program's all-time wins list (101) while playing at Nos. 1 or 2 singles and No. 2 doubles her entire tenure.

Skonieczny ranks sixth in program history in career doubles wins (55) and seventh in career singles wins (46). She posted two 32-win campaigns that are among the top 14 for a single season in program history.

Skonieczny was a three-time GLVC Brother Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award recipient, earned the GLVC Council of Presidents Academic Excellence Award and was career Academic All-GLVC.

Maggie Walroth (2015-19)
Walroth is the all-time program leader in career wins (147). The Cincinnati native was acknowledged on the All-GLVC team as a freshman, sophomore and junior. She landed a GLVC Player of the Week accolade in her debut season.

In addition to career victories, Walroth is the program leader in career doubles wins (81) and ranks third in career singles victories (66). She recorded 39 wins each her freshman and sophomore campaigns, which are tied for second all-time for a single season in program history. Her 37 wins as a junior are tied for eighth. She notched 21 doubles wins in three different seasons, all tying the program record. Walroth and Jonathan are the program's winningest doubles pair after tallying 57 victories together.

Walroth earned the GLVC Council of Presidents Academic Excellence Award and was a perennial Academic All-GLVC honoree.

Evann Waschuk (2011-15)
Waschuk was recognized on the All-GLVC team as a junior and senior. The Canadian product of Winnipeg, Manitoba, earned a GLVC Player of the Week award her final season. She is ranked ninth on the program's all-time wins list (95).

Waschuk went 15-5 in singles play her senior year, including 13-4 at No. 1 singles, and built an 11-match win streak. She ranks eighth all-time with 53 career doubles wins.

Waschuk received the GLVC Council of Presidents Academic Excellence Award and was career Academic All-GLVC.

PLAYER OF THE DECADE NOMINEES:
Ashley Jonathan, Rebecca Porter and Maggie Walroth were the nominees for Player of the Decade. 

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