Brigantine, N.J., native honored after MVP performance at NE-10 Championships
EASTON, Mass. (April 24, 2013) – Northeast-10 Conference Champion Stonehill College senior captain Paige Frost (Brigantine, N.J./Holy Spirit) has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Player of Week for women's tennis by the league office.
Frost earns the weekly award for the first time in her career after her MVP performance at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships in leading second-seeded Stonehill to its fourth NE-10 title and first since 2009. She was also named to the NE-10 All-Championship team after posting a combined 3-0 record in singles and doubles play, winning both her matches at No. 1 doubles with freshman Kirsti Toegemann (Narragansett, R.I./The Lincoln School) and also posting a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Southern New Hampshire's Kristen Jean at No. 4 singles in Saturday's championship match to put the Skyhawks up 4-0 on its way to the 5-2 win.
Frost and Toegemann, the ninth ranked doubles team in the East Region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), rallied from a 2-5 deficit to claim an 8-5 triumph over SNHU's top doubles team of Alena Mukdaprakorn and Diana Vamvakitis, ranked 22nd nationally by the ITA and second in the region, to complete a Skyhawks sweep of the three doubles matches on Saturday. The duo also posted an 8-5 win over Saint Michael's College's top doubles team on its way to a 5-0 win in the semifinals and Frost was a point away from claiming a win at No. 4 singles when the match was wrapped up.
Frost, a first team All-Northeast-10 performer at No. 4 singles and a second team honoree, along with Toegemann, at No. 1 doubles this season, has posted a combined 43-13 record during her senior season with a 21-5 singles mark, including a perfect 12-0 clip in NE-10 play, while posting a 22-8 doubles record with four different partners. She and Toegemann are 9-2 since pairing up this spring, including a 6-1 clip in NE-10 play. Frost was teamed up with freshman Bailey Paradiso (Birmingham, Mich./Marian) in the fall and reached the semifinal round of the B-doubles draw and placed fourth at the New England Championships against entirely Division I competition.
Frost, a six-time All-Northeast-10 performer who has earned the honors for singles all four years as well as doubles accolades as a junior and senior, has posted a 126-31 (.802) combined record in singles and doubles play over her career. She is 72-12 (.857) over her four years in singles play, including a 44-2 (.957) in NE-10 matches, to go with a 54-19 (.740) doubles match, including 27-4 (.871) in Conference play. Frost won the B-singles bracket at the 2010 ITA East Regional and also teamed up with classmate Chelsea Haedrich (Islip, N.Y./Islip) to win the C-doubles bracket at the Salve Regina Grass Courts Championships that season. She earned NE-10 All-Rookie team honors as a freshman and collected Freshman of the Week honors once.
Frost has also performed in the classroom, earning the St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal three-straight years for having the highest cumulative grade point average on the team. She received the Northeast-10 Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award for women's tennis as a junior and earned NE-10 Academic All-Conference honors for the second-straight year. Frost is a two-time Division II Athletic Director's Association Academic Achievement Award recipient for having a cumulative GPA over 3.50 as a sophomore or higher and has received NE-10 Commissioner's and Athletic Director's Honor Roll status every semester.
Stonehill (20-3, 11-1 NE-10) has earned its fifth-straight NCAA Tournament bid and eighth overall, and will host East Regional #1 on Saturday and Sunday at Charles Watt Tennis Courts. The fourth-seeded Skyhawks will face fifth-seeded and 50th-ranked Chestnut Hill College (18-8, 6-2 CACC) in an opening round matchup on Saturday at 11 a.m. The winner will advance to face top-seeded and 15th-ranked New York Institute of Technology (22-3, 6-1 ECC) on Sunday at 11 a.m. Stonehill has reached the 20-win mark for the second time in program history and is just a win shy of the program record of 21 set in 2008-09 when it reached the NCAA Championships Round of 16 in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
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