FOREST, Va. --- ODAC champion Washington and Lee University saw six players garnered a league-best seven all-conference honors and the University of Lynchburg ended a 40-year drought to headline the 2025-26 All-ODAC Men's Tennis Awards.
Lynchburg sophomore
Ricards Spaks garnered ODAC Player of the Year honors from the league's head coaches, making him the first Hornet to earn the ODAC's top-player award since Pete Moran hoisted the plaque in 1986. A first was also achieved by Guilford College's
Andres Mercedes as the Quakers' senior became the first player from Guilford to earn the men's tennis ODAC/Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete of the Year award from the conference's athletic communications personnel.
Washington and Lee's awards haul was augmented with the addition of two special individual honors. Generals' mentor
Davide Detwiler secured his seventh overall ODAC Coach of the Year plaudit -- his third in the past five years -- while WLU first-year
Henry Imorde received ODAC Rookie of the Year distinction.
Eight student-athletes account for the nine repeat All-ODAC honorees from last year's list to the 2026 edition. That includes five members of the 2025 All-ODAC First Team. Shenandoah University senior
Dominick Suwak heads that contingent as the 2025 ODAC Player of the Year repeats at first team No. 1 singles. WLU's
Heys Parker was a first teamer as a singles and a doubles player last year. He appears on the second team in both instances this season at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles along with Imorde as his partner.
The Randolph College duo of
Jacob Martin and
Andreas Mulner repeat as a doubles pairing on the first team at No. 1, while Averett University's tandem of
Florian Bert and
Alex Donnelly improved as a second team doubles pairing in 2025 to a first team set at No. 2 in 2026. Cougars' teammate
Lucas Fiandra moves up from last year's second team to first team at No. 3 singles, while GC's Mercedes is one-half of a second team doubles pairing for consecutive years at No. 1 with new partner Emmanuel Oye.
Listed below is the allotment of All-ODAC Men's Award winners.
ODAC Player of the Year: Ricards Spaks, So., Lynchburg
ODAC Coach of the Year: David Detwiler, Washington and Lee
ODAC Rookie of the Year: Henry Imorde, Fy., Washington and Lee
ODAC/VAFB Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Andres Mercedes, Sr., Guilford
ALL-ODAC FIRST TEAM
#1 Singles: Ricards Spaks - Lynchburg
#1 Singles: Dominick Suwak - Shenandoah *
#2 Singles: Andreas Mulner - Randolph
#2 Singles: Henry Imorde - Washington and Lee
#3 Singles: Lucas Fiandra - Averett ^
#4 Singles: Aksel Tinnes-Rimehaug - Randolph
#5 Singles: Sahil Arora - Washington and Lee
#6 Singles: Sanjheev Rao - Washington and Lee
#1 Doubles: Aliaksandr Rudy / Lucas Fiandra - Averett
#1 Doubles: Jacob Martin * / Andreas Mulner * - Randolph
#2 Doubles: Florian Bert ^ / Alex Donnelly ^ - Averett
#3 Doubles: Dominick Suwak / Aryanth Chintharlappali - Shenandoah
ALL-ODAC SECOND TEAM
#1 Singles: Jacob Martin - Randolph
#1 Singles: Heys Parker - Washington and Lee *
#2 Singles: Shine Tokas - Shenandoah
#2 Singles: Jed Platts - Virginia Wesleyan
#3 Singles: Vincenzo Marchese - Randolph
#4 Singles: Artem Babaiev - Shenandoah
#5 Singles: Roger Pamies Petit - Averett
#6 Singles: Samuel Egui - Averett
#1 Doubles: Andres Mercedes ^ / Emmanuel Oye - Guilford
#1 Doubles: Heys Parker * / Henry Imorde - Washington and Lee
#2 Doubles: Sanjheev Rao / Justin Ilie - Washington and Lee
#3 Doubles: Pearce Lane / Sahil Arora - Washington and Lee
* 2024-25 All-ODAC First Team (5)
^ 2024-25 All-ODAC Second Team (4)