May 14, 2012

SKILLMAN, NJ - Johns Hopkins senior Jacob Barnaby and freshman Tanner Brown have received awards for the Atlantic South Region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). Barnaby has been honored with the Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership & Sportsmanship Award while Brown has been named the Rookie of the Year. The ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship goes to a player who has exhibited outstanding sportsmanship and leadership as well as scholastic, extracurricular and tennis achievements.

Barnaby is the second Johns Hopkins men's tennis player to win the ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Sportsmanship & Leadership, joining Rafael Roberti, who earned the distinction in 2008. A captain this season, he led Hopkins to four straight Centennial Conference Championships, three straight NCAA Sweet 16s and the 2012 NCAA Quarterfinals. The Blue Jays are 77-18 overall and 36-0 in the Centennial Conference in his career. Barnaby holds 10 school records, including doubles wins in a season (28) and a career (89). A four-time All-Centennial Conference Doubles honoree, he earned ITA All-America honors in doubles in 2011.

Freshman Tanner Brown.

Brown is the second Blue Jay to earn ITA Atlantic South Rookie of the Year accolades as he follows David Maldow, the 2007 Atlantic South Rookie of the Year. He leads the Blue Jays with 20 singles wins this season, just one win shy of the school record for wins by a freshman (21). He also boasts 15 doubles wins, second best on the team. Brown earned First Team All-Centennial Conference honors in singles and went 11-1 in regional matches this season. He helped JHU to its sixth straight and seventh overall Centennial Conference title in 2012. Brown also won both his singles and doubles matches in the second and third round of the NCAA Tournament to help Hopkins to its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Quarterfinals.

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