Bulgakova, Dishkova Earn All-AAC Honors For 2016 Season

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From SMUMustangs.com:

Bulgakova, Dishkova Earn All-AAC Honors For 2016 Season
Second Conference Honor For Each Senior In Their SMU Careers

May 5, 2016

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (SMU/AAC) — SMU women’s tennis players Vaszilisza Bulgakova and Hristina Dishkova were each named to the 2016 All-Conference Team in the American Athletic Conference. This will be the second consecutive All-AAC honor for Dishkova and the second conference honor in Bulgakova’s career after being named to the Third Team All-CUSA in 2013.

The two seniors combined to play a majority of doubles matches at the No. 1 position for the Mustangs, finishing with a 13-7 record. Dishkova played all matches at the No. 1 position in singles for SMU in 2016 to a 14-7 record with Bulgakova finishing duals season with an 11-9 record, 9-9 from No. 2 and 1-0 at No. 3 and No. 4 each.

Dishkova had the longest winning streak for any player on the SMU women’s tennis team as she won her first seven matches of the season to start 7-0. Bulgakova and Dishkova combined to clinch three match wins for the Mustangs during the 2016 duals season with Bulgakova getting the fourth point in a 7-0 win over Sam Houston State and Dishkova earning the fourth point twice in 5-2 wins against McNeese State and Memphis.

Dishkova finished her career at SMU with an 80-47 singles record, good for 7th all-time in program history, and a 68-45 doubles record. Bulgakova went 60-53 in singles and 70-37 in doubles in four years as a Mustang.