Bradley University Athletics

Wijesinghe Named Academic All-American

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Women's Tennis 6/21/2019 1:59:00 PM

Bradley Tennis senior Malini Wijesinghe (Apple Valley, MN/Apple Valley H.S.) was honored for her work on and off the court on Friday, earning selection to the Google Cloud Academic All-America Women's At-Large Third Team.

One of just seven women's tennis players nationally to earn Academic All-America accolades, Wijesinghe is also the first member of the Bradley program to receive the prestigious distinction.

On the court, Wijesinghe became the second-winningest player in Bradley Women's Tennis history, completing her career with 132 combined singles and doubles victories, while her 75 career singles wins also were the second-best total in program history. Helping Bradley (16-8) to the winningest season in program history and a runner-up finish in The Valley regular-season standings, Wijesinghe earned MVC All-Select honors as Bradley's No. 3 Singles player in 2019, while also garnering first-team All-MVC honors with fellow senior Lindsay Haight at the No. 3 Doubles position.

Off the court, Wijesinghe graduated with a 3.99 cumulative grade point average while earning three degrees in biochemistry, Spanish and philosophy. A three-time Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete first-team selection, her lengthy list of awards also includes the 2018 ITA Arthur Ashe Sportsmanship & Leadership Award, the Spring 2018 State Farm MVC Good Neighbor Award, the 2018 Bradley Athletics Carl Grose Service Award, the 2019 Bradley Athletics Coach Joe Stowell Award and the Central Region recipient of the 2019 ITA Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship.

To be nominated for the Google Cloud Academic All-America consideration, student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and must have completed at least one full calendar year at the nominating institution while reaching at least sophomore athletic eligibility. Schools may nominate up to four student-athletes in each gender in the at-large category, which includes the following women's sports: beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming/diving, tennis and water polo.

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Players Mentioned

Malini Wijesinghe: 5' 11"; Senior

Lindsay Haight: 5' 7"; Redshirt Junior

Players Mentioned

Malini Wijesinghe
: 5' 11"; Senior

Lindsay Haight
: 5' 7"; Redshirt Junior