DENVER – The University of Denver men's tennis team swept the annual Summit League awards while adding five All-League Team honors, the league announced on Thursday.
 
Junior Nicolas Herrero Cuesta was named the Summit League Player of the Year; sophomore transfer Daniel Sancho Arbizu captured Summit League Newcomer of the Year honors; and head coach Drew Eberly earned Summit League Coach of the Year recognition. Five Denver student-athletes also added All-Summit League Team honors, matching the most in the conference this season.
 
Herrero Cuesta and Sancho Arbizu each finished the regular season with 17-4 records in singles to match the best record in the Summit League, and both were a perfect 5-0 in league play. The Denver junior posted a 12-4 record at No. 1 singles and was 4-0 when playing at No. 2 singles, dropping just one set in league play while 14 of his overall singles wins came in straight sets.
 
After transferring to Denver ahead of this season, Sancho Arbizu held a 12-3 record at No. 2 singles – the best record in the Summit League – and added four more wins in the No. 1 spot. He finished the last month of the season without dropping a set in singles including in all five of his league matches.
 
Eberly collected the first Coach of the Year honor of his career after leading Denver to a 5-0 record in the Summit League on the way to DU's fourth-straight regular-season title. Denver ended the regular season ranked No. 61 in the ITA Rankings and added wins over Drake, Northern Arizona, Boise State and New Mexico – all of which are currently in the top 75 nationally.
 
This is first time that DU has swept the Summit League "of the Year" awards. DU has now won Player of the Year honors five times, Coach of the Year four times and Newcomer of the Year twice since joining the Summit League in 2013-14.
 
For the third time, Denver placed five student-athletes on the All-Summit League Team and matched Drake for the most this season. Joining Herrero Cuesta and Sancho Arbizu are graduate student Conner Olsen and juniors Peter Sallay and Charlie Miller.
 
Sallay and Olsen each finished with singles records of 14-6 and tied for the third-most wins on the team. The junior earned all 14 of his wins at No. 3 singles for Denver – one shy of the most in the Summit League this year – and dropped just one set in League play. Over his last four singles matches, he landed five sets with 6-2 or better score lines.
 
Olsen captured 11 wins at No. 4 singles, the second most in the Summit League at that spot. He won nine matches in straight sets throughout the season including his last two in League play. In Summit League matches, he finished 4-1 overall.
 
Miller, too, was 4-1 in League play this season and finished with an overall record of 8-6, notching six wins in the No. 6 spot for Denver. All but one of his singles wins came in straight sets including a stretch of five straight from late March into early April.
 
Herrero Cuesta has now earned All-Summit League Team honors in each of his first three seasons at Denver while fellow juniors Miller and Sallay have each done so two straight. This is the first all-conference honor from the Summit League for Sancho Arbizu, though he was named to the All-WAC Team in 2022 before transferring to Denver. Olsen is a first-time All-League honoree.
 
Denver will be the No. 1 seed for the 2023 Summit League Men's Tennis Championship on April 21-22 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Denver will take on No. 4 seed Omaha in the semifinals on Friday, April 21, at 9 a.m. CT/8 a.m. MT.
 
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