Three Cowgirls Named To Mountain West 25th Season Tennis Team

From the desk of Kevin DeVries/Wyoming Athletics

COLORADO SPRINGS (April 22, 2024) – The Mountain West Conference has announced its 25th Season All-Tennis Team Monday by the league office. Wyoming has a trio of former Cowgirls that were named to the squad in Veronica Popovici, Magdalena Stencel and Tessa van Der Ploeg.

Popovici, who is one of three Cowgirls in program history to be named All-Mountain West four times, is UW’s all-time leader in career singles wins with 85. Popovici also holds the single-season wins mark with 28, is also the all-time doubles wins leader at Wyoming with 88.

Stencel, who has also been named to the All-Mountain West Singles Team four times, appears in the UW top-five for both singles and doubles victories. Stencel is fifth all-time in both singles (72) and doubles (69) victories at Wyoming.

Rounding out the team is van Der Ploeg, who was a three-time All-Doubles Team honoree and was once named to the All-Singles Team in the league. Van Der Ploeg is seventh at UW with 67 career doubles wins while her 63 singles victories are 13th in program history.