Junior Brian Dowis (Yorktown, Va.) was named the Big South Conference Men’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year at the annual awards banquet in Rock Hill, S.C. tonight (April 13).

Dowis made the Big South All-Academic Team for the second season in a row. He has a 3.922 grade-point-average in math. This is the sixth Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award for Coastal men’s tennis and the third in four years. Arnaud Caffin won the award in 2002 and 2003.

Dowis had a 7-9 record singles record this spring at the number five and six singles slots. He was 1-2 in the Big South, defeating Victor Rios of Liberty 6-3, 6-3.

Eric Baumgardner, Birmingham-Southern

Thomas Richter, Birmingham-Southern

Chris Archer, High Point

James Lloyd, Radford

Paul Ambrose, UNC Asheville

Clayton Almeida, Winthrop

Vinicius Bortolatto, Winthrop

Rodrigo Santos, Winthrop

Richard Turner/Mauricio Engler, Birmingham-Southern

Chris Archer/Dave Perren, High Point

Mauricio Correa/Rob Nunnery, UNC Asheville

Thiago Barbosa/Vinicius Bortolatto, Winthrop

Richard Turner, Birmingham-Southern

Quentin Guichard, Charleston Southern

Michael Tolman, High Point

Priit Phil, Liberty

Arthur Vasarevic, Radford

Clayton Almeida, Winthrop

Paul Ambrose, UNC Asheville