WORCESTER, MA- After winning the first conference tournament title in program history on Sunday, the Wheaton College women's tennis team drew a school-record five all-league laurels on Tuesday at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) coaches meeting at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Head coach Lynn Miller, now in her 30th season guiding the program, earned her third coach-of-the-year honor.

Junior Catherine Teague (Manchester, NH/Central) and sophomore Rosalyn Chesky (South Hadley, MA/Wilbraham & Monson Academy) each drew singles and doubles honors, while sophomore Allesandra DiOrio (Cumberland, RI/Lincoln School) landed an all-league accolade for her singles play. Juniors Sarah Geocaris (Newport Beach, CA/Sage Hill School) and Ellen Van Faasen (Manchester, MA/Manchester Essex Regional) both nabbed doubles laurels. Wheaton had previously earned four all-conference honors in 2003.

Wheaton athletes occupied two of the six first-team singles positions and two of the three doubles slots. Teague and Chesky took the second and sixth spots, respectively, while Geocaris and Teague combined at the first doubles position, and Chesky and Van Faasen comprised the third doubles team. DiOrio occupied the fourth singles slot on the all-conference second team.

Teague posted a 14-4 mark, going 5-1 during NEWMAC play. Four of her league wins came in straight sets, while another was a 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 victory over an opponent from nationally-ranked Wellesley. She also notched a pair of victories in the NEWMAC Tournament, including a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 win in the championship against the Blue that snapped a 4-4 tie between the teams, as she won the final four games of the third set. Teague is ranked 15th in the Northeast region by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).

In doubles, Geocaris and Teague went 16-3 this fall, including 5-1 in the league, yielding a total of two games during their five victories in regular season NEWMAC action. Among the wins was an 8-0 blanking of a nationally-ranked duo from nationally-ranked Wellesley. During the postseason, the tandem, which is ranked 11th in the region, blanked a Smith College tandem in the semifinals before rallying from a 5-4 deficit for an 8-5 victory in the title tilt against Wellesley.

Chesky recorded a spotless 7-0 record in league play while winning all five of her matches in the sixth slot in straight sets. When playing in the fifth position, Chesky notched a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory at Mount Holyoke College and a 6-3, 6-0 triumph at Smith. By leading the team in wins this fall, Chesky's 16-3 overall mark included a pair of straight-set wins in the NEWMAC Tournament.

Chesky and Van Faasen were a perfect 5-0 in conference action, yielding more than two games only once. They finished the fall 14-1, including 11-0 in dual matches, while twice beating a tandem from nationally-ranked Wellesley, including by an 8-2 count during the NEWMAC Tournament championship match.

DiOrio went 6-1 in league action, including 5-1 at fourth singles, while ending up with a 12-3 overall record. Each of her league victories came in straight sets, which included a 6-4, 7-6 decision while playing one slot higher, in the third position, against Smith.

Miller led the Lyons, who are ranked 12th in the region, to a 13-2 overall mark, setting a school record for victories in a fall season and coming within one of the program standard for wins in an entire school year. By guiding the team to its first league tournament crown, Miller's Blue and White squad will compete in its initial NCAA Tournament in May. With more than 300 victories at the reigns of the women's team, Miller, who also heads the men's program, had previously been named conference coach of the year in 1989 and 2003.