Rutherford Times

Stijn Slump has been tabbed Conference USA Athlete of the Week, the league office announced on Wednesday.

"Stijn has been working hard and making good improvements in his game," said MTSU assistant coach Andrea Caligiana. "We are really happy for him to have gotten another ranked win against Virginia Tech on Sunday but most importantly he helped the team get the win."

This is the third straight week a Blue Raider has earned CUSA Athlete of the Week.

Slump has had a great start to the spring season. He is 7-3 in singles on court No. 1 and 7-1 in doubles.

The graduate student from the Netherlands had a perfect weekend for the second weekend in a row going 4-0 this last weekend. He is 9-0 over the last two weekends. On Friday, MTSU faced conference foe, Rice. In doubles, Slump and his doubles partner, Pavel Motl, defeated Rice's Santiago Navarro and Campbell Salmon 7-5 securing the doubles point for the Blue Raiders. In singles, Slump picked up a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2) victory over Trinity Grear on court No. 1. On Sunday, Slump and Motl claimed the doubles point for MTSU for the second time over the weekend defeating Virginia Tech's Alvaro Ariza and Scott Sculley 6-2. Slump clinched the sweep for the Blue Raiders by tallying a ranked win over No. 60 Ryan Fishback of Virginia Tech 7-6 (6), 6-3. 

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