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National Junior Sportsmanship Awards

Award Description: Sportsmanship includes respecting your opponents, playing fair, and doing your part so that everyone is having fun.

 

At each USTA national junior tournament each year, the Tournament Committee of the event selects one player or team as an overall Sportsmanship Award winner.

 

These players demonstrate fair play, show respect toward their opponents and always give their best efforts during competition. 

 

The honorees are listed below by age group, with the tournament locations listed after each player.

2024

Boys' 18s: Ivan Perisic (Scottsdale, AZ)

 

Girls' 18s: Kaye Moe (East Providence, RI)

 

Boys' 16s: Drew Barr (Austin, TX), Louis Anderson III (Coral Gables, FL), Brayden Tallakson (Long Beach, CA), Arjun Prabhakar (Scottsdale, AZ)

 

Girls' 16s: Daria Budko (Austin, TX), Aurora Lugo (Coral Gables, FL), Emmy Richards (Long Beach, CA), Angela Chen (Tai Claire, WI)

 

Boys' 14s: Mason Vaughan (Grand Rapids, MI), Daniel Malacek (Claremont, CA), Zachary Szymanski (Dothan, AL)

 

GIrls' 14s: Evelynn Kwak (Macon, GA), Braylen Michelson (Seminole, FL)

 

Boys' 12s: Evan Li (Tucson, AZ), Max Smith (Cincinnati, OH)

 

Girls' 12s: Addison Latta (Tucson, AZ), Cataleya Brown (Seminole, FL)

Boys' 16s: Samuel He (Mobile, AL)

 

Boys' 12s: Juan Rafa Agcaoili (Tucson, AZ)

 

Girls' 12s: Mika Wei (Tucson, AZ)

Girls' 18s: Maya Inouye (Tucson, AZ), Juhnyee See (Bradenton, FL), Sophie Suh/Makeilah Nepomuceno/Aspen Chung/Charlotte Klein (Camarillo, CA)

 

Boys' 18s: Dylan Paterson (Tucson, AZ), Max Pettingell (Bradenton, FL), Dean Rostom/Ethan Jacobs/Braeden Gelletich (Camarillo, CA)

 

Girls' 16s: Sophie Lau (Tucson, AZ), Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett/Adelyn Gross (Bradenton, FL), Addison Lindsay (Sioux Falls, SD)

 

Boys' 16s: Shaye Grant (Tucson, AZ), Ryan Bedwick (Bradenton, FL), Ajinkya Karnataki (Greensboro, NC)

 

Girls' 14s: Sun Park (Tucson, AZ), Fiona Hu (Sioux Falls, SD), Sydney Wright (Orlando, FL)

 

Boys' 14s: Arjun Krishnan (Anaheim, CA), Blake Wright (Tucson, AZ), Rishit Sharma (Greensboro, CA), Matias Reyniak (Orlando, FL)

 

Girls' 12s: Jocelyn Sun (Spring, TX), Ella Wang (Tulsa, OK)

 

Boys' 12s: Emry Lin (Anaheim, CA), Paolo Huerta (Mesa, AZ), Robin Thomas (Spring, TX), Preet Dave (Riverside, RI), Blount Williams (Greensboro, CA), Kevin Le (Tulsa, OK)

Tournament held in Indian Wells, CA

 

Boys' 18s: Blake Anderson

 

Girls' 18s: Addison Lanton

 

Boys' 16s: Sean Clark

 

Girls' 16s: Kara Garcia

 

Boys' 14s: Antanas Daugis

 

Girls' 14s: Shristi Selvan

 

Boys' 12s: Nikola Bogojevic

 

Girls' 12s: Isabelle Nguyen

Boys' 18s: Adan Tarquino (Las Vegas, NV), Avner Wong (Mesa, AZ), Nicholas Meyers (Grand Rapids, MI)

 

Girls' 18s: Isabel He (Eau Claire, WI), Sydney Fuger (Mesa, AZ)

 

Boys' 16s: Alex Croitoru (Long Beach, CA), Alexander Guajardo (Scottsdale, AZ), Owen Guistwite (Wayland, MA)

 

Girls' 16s: Kohana Darroch (Long Beach, CA), Goldie Kregar (Scottsdale, AZ), Olivia Dartawan (Wayland, MA)

 

Boys' 14s: Dylan Meineke (Ridgeland, MS)

 

Girls' 14s: Braelynn Roberson/Zannah Roberson (Macon, GA), Meher Rao (Ridgeland, MS), Jithya Rubesh (Tulsa, OK)

 

Boys' 12s: Vincent van Ruymbeke (Irvine, CA), Tomas Giraldo (Ridgeland, MS), Aleksander Semenovski (Naples, FL)

 

Girls' 12s: Gwyneth Britton (Irvine, CA), Regina Zarco/Eleanor Armistead (Ridgeland, MS), Adelina Iftime/Hayeon Song (Naples, FL)

Boys' 18s: Tony Sifuentes (McKinney, TX), Darren Huang ((Las Vegas, NV)

 

Girls' 18s: Hi'ilani Williams (Las Vegas, NV), Anna Bennett (Providence, RI)

 

Boys' 16s: Justin Riley Anson (Anaheim, CA), Samuel Pohl (Las Vegas, NV)

 

Girls' 16s: Aubrey Effler (McKinney, TX), Anika Malik (Las Vegas, NV), Paige Wygodzki/Victoria Mann (Midlothian, VA)

 

Boys' 14s: Lucas Celechovsky (Las Vegas, NV), Santiago Bisogno (Greensboro, NC)

 

Girls' 14s: Jasmine Taylor (Annapolis, MD), Kimber Kuykendall (Las Vegas, NV), Juliana Diianni (Greensboro, NC)

 

Boys' 12s: Hayes Taplin (Las Vegas, NV), Daniel Silverman (Manchester, MA), William Benton (Baton Rouge, LA), Samuel Hartley (Greensboro, NC)

 

Girls' 12s: Mika Wei (Las Vegas, NV), Abigail Neus (Baton Rouge, LA), Mycah  Slaydon (Greensboro, NC), Ilinca Gusatu (Grand Rapids, MI)

Girls' 18s: Helena Lynn (Midlothian, VA)

 

Girls' 16s: Delaney Letzel (Rome, GA), Jordyn Hazelitt (Orland, FL), Margaret Hui (Edmond, OK)

 

Boys' 16s: Ajinkya Karnataki (Rome, GA), Brayden Tallakson (Edmond, OK)

 

GIrls' 14s: Reena Alavalapati (Arlington, TX)

 

Boys' 14s: Mikaeel Alibaig (Arlington, TX)

 

Girls' 12s: Natalia Martinez (Marietta, GA), Sara Karnik (Long Beach, CA), Sarabeth Hoo (Glen Cove, NY), Aimee Peng (Boca Raton, FL)

 

Boys' 12s: Ayush Ananthuni (Marietta, GA), Haven Chae (Long Beach, CA), Elias Harris (Boca Raton, FL)

Girls' 18s: Tana Christopulos (Oklahoma City, OK)

 

Boys' 18s: Max Pettingell (Chatanooga, TN), Amrith Kodumuri (Oklahoma City, OK)

 

Girls' 16s: Chloe Zigliara (Midlothian, VA), Raina Kim (Minneapolis, MN), Caroline Jones (Chatanooga, TN), Martha Thompson (Cary, NC)

 

Boys' 16s: Tim Vargas (Ithaca, NY), Jordan Papadopoulos (Cary, NC)

 

Girls' 14s: Ava Sock (Mobile, AL), Daniela Del Mastro (Austin, TX), Evelyn Kwak (Greensboro, NC)

 

Boys' 14s: Chance Rozpedski (Mobile, AL), Vedant Bhende (Greensboro, NC)

 

Girls' 12s: Hayeon Song (Mobile, AL), Mandy Wei (Austin, TX), Mia Janusz (Greensboro, NC)

 

Boys' 12s: Yuvan Karthikeyan (Mobile, AL), Ethan Cho (Eugene, OR), Shay Wadhwa (Greensboro, NC)

Boys' 18s: Max Pettingell (Delray Beach, FL)

 

Girls' 18s: Chloe Qin (Mount Pleasant, SC)

 

Boys' 16s: Sutton Severance (Delray Beach, FL)

 

Girls' 16s: Lyla Middleton (Huntsville, AL)

 

Boys' 14s: Sebastian Godoy (Dothan, AL)

 

Girls' 14s: Corinne Winningham (Plantation, FL)

 

Boys' 12s: Will Adamson (Orlando, FL)

 

Girls' 12s: Kyndall Noel (Greensboro, NC)

2023

Boys' 18s: Robert Zhang (Key Biscayne, FL); Ian Uraga (Las Vegas, NV); Brandon Pham (Long Beach, CA); Krish Gupta/Tony Sifuentes (San Antonio, TX); Payton Jim On (Scottsdale, AZ)

 

Girls' 18s: Peyton Capuano (Key Biscayne,FL); Annika Penickova (Las Vegas, NV); Sage Bergeson (Long Beach, CA); Catherine Shen/Libby Blair (San Antonio, TX); Rebecca Kong (San Diego, CA)

 

Boys' 16s: Aaron Beduhn (Austin, TX); Avner Wong (Coral Gables, FL); Blake Hilsen (Scottsdale, AZ)

 

Girls' 16s: Hi'llani Williams  (Austin, TX); Lauren Kettlewell (Coral Gables,FL); Nicole Fu (Eau Claire, WI)

 

Boys' 14s: David Bvunzawabaya (Dothan, AL); Alexander Suhanitski (Grand Rapids, MI) 

 

Girls' 14s: Briley Rhoden (Austin, TX); Maggie Sohns (Macon, GA); Bella Arwood (Seminole, FL); Sylvana Jalbert (Virginia Beach, VA)

 

Boys' 12s: Vidur Gogineni (Cincinnati, OH); Luca Queiroz (Tucson, AZ)

 

Girls' 12s: Ryan Griffin (Tucson, AZ); Ashwin Willy (Virginia Beach, CA)

Boys' 12s (Tucson, AZ): Asher Yuan (Southern California), Keito Ishida (Northern California), Evaan Mohan (New England), Tyler Sung (Northern California), Smyan Thuta (Northern California), Ivan Dubovec (Southwest) and Raghav Narayanen (Eastern)

 

Girls' 12s (Tucson, AZ): Alicia Londono (Southwest), Madeline Cleary (Southern California), Alana Berry (New England), Emily Bennington (Southern), Sarabeth Hoo (Eastern), Aleksandra Jerkunica (Florida), Azalea Mendoza (Southwest) and Sara Karnik (Northern California)

Girls' 18s: Summer Chandler (Camarilla, CA); Annika Harberts Ott (Tucson, AZ)

 

Boys' 18s: Winston Lee/Vraj Patel (Camarillo, CA); Nikky Sai Kondamiri (Rome, GA); William Brunner (Tucson, AZ)

 

Girls' 16s: Karlin Schock (Sioux Falls, SD); Eva Kovachev (Tucson, AZ)

 

Boys' 16s: Ted Nguyen (Tucson, AZ)

 

Girls' 14s: Margaret Schulte (Rome, GA); Aoife Loftus (Sioux Falls, SD); Makenzie Baptist (Tucson, AZ)

 

Boys' 14s: Deepinder Singh (Tucson, AZ)

 

Girls' 12s: Leala Kramer (Medord, NJ); Victoria Torres/Anabella Ordonez (Spring, TX); Scarlett Milner (Tulsa, OK)

 

Boys' 12s: Andres Quijada (Spring, TX); Wyatt Markham (Tulsa, OK)

Tournament held in Indian Wells, CA

 

Boys' 12s: Dylan Meineke (Texas)

 

Boys' 14s: Izyan Ahmad (Eastern)

 

Boys' 16s: Andre Alcantara (Intermountain)

 

Boys' 18s: Krish Arora (Southern California)

 

Girls' 12s: Aarini Bhattacharya (Mid-Atlantic)

 

Girls' 14s: Kori Montoya (Texas)

 

Girls' 16s: Anna Frey (Intermountain)

 

Girls' 18s: Esha Velaga (Middle States)

Boys' 18s: Matthew Scott (Mesa, AZ)

 

Girls' 18s: Athena Wardy (Mesa, AZ)

 

Boys' 16s: Tyler Lee (Long Beach, CA)

 

GIrls' 16s: Carley Chen (Long Beach, CA)

 

Boys' 14s: Maximus Rysz (Eai Calire, WI)

 

Boys' 12s: Nolan Sharma (Glen Cove, NY)

 

Girls' 12s: Leala Kramer (Glen Cove, NY); Christina Slaton (Macon, GA)

Boys' 18s: Joseph Patton/Andrew Reiman (Arlington, Texas); Troy Kudrjavtsev (Owing Mills, Md.)

 

Girls' 18s: Margaret Jaraczewski (Arlington, Texas)

 

Boys' 16s: Micah Ward (Arlington, Texas); William McEwan (Mesa, Ariz.)

 

Girls' 16s: Willow Dymkowski (Arlington, Texas); Avner Wong (Mesa, Ariz.); Lara Afolayanka/Victoria Mann/Brooke Wallman/Danielle Young (Midlothian, Va.)

 

Boys' 14s: Rex Kulman (Boca Raton, Fla.); Griffin Goode (Greensboro, N.C.); John Paul Huston/Noah Ward/James Andrew Ross Kas Kelso (San Antonio, Texas)

 

Girls' 14s: Evelyn Blanchette (Annapolis, Md.); Sophia Osipova (Boca Raton, Fla.); Gabriella Slovak (Greensboro, N.C.)

 

Boys' 12s: Ethan Su (Greensboro, N.C.); Smyan Vijay (Boulder, Colo.)

 

Girls' 12s: Dalina Kokoshi (Grand Rapids, Mich.); Sophie Heimburger (Boulder, Colo.)

Boys' 18s: Otto Sewell/Lachlan Gaskell (Key Biscayne, FLA); Heys Parker (Rome, GA)

 

Girls' 18s: Lisa Kranec/Emily Robertson/Nina Costalas/Oziera Ahmad/Diya Challa (Midlothian, VA)

 

Boys' 16s: Nolan Balthazar (Edmond, OK)

 

Girls' 16s: Devika Manu (Rome, GA); Nicole Weng (Edmond, OK)

 

Boys' 14s: Owen Allison (Chicago, IL)

 

Girls' 14s: Carolina Castro (Cincinnati, OH); Emery June Martin/Akanksha Parashar (Roseville, CA)

 

Boys' 12s: Patrick Paul (Boca Raton, FL)

 

Girls' 12s: Tanvi Pandey (Roseville, CA); Addyson Monroe (Boca Raton, FL)

Girls' 18s: Savannah Webster (Oklahoma City, OK)

 

Boys' 18s: Lawson Prather (Oklahoma City, OK)

 

Girls' 16s: Carrie-Anne Hoo (Midlothian, VA); McKenzie Shelton (Cary, NC)

 

Boys' 16s: Bassil Touban (Ithaca, NY); Evan Ly (Cary, NC)

 

Girls' 14s: Emily Golovanov (Mobile, AL); Jordyn Hazelitt (Greensboro, NC)

 

Boys' 14s: Sean Peng (Mobile, AL); Aarav Nair (Greensboro, NC)

 

Girls' 12s: Camille Loria (Mobile, AL); Alana Berry (Greensboro, NC)

 

Boys' 12s: Smyan Vijay (Mobile, AL); Alexander La France (Greensboro, NC)

Girls' 18s: Trinetra Vijayakumar (Mt. Pleasant, SC)

 

Boys' 18s: Zhengqing Ji (Delray Beach, FL)

 

Girls' 16s: Ellery Mendell (Huntsville, AL)

 

Boys' 16s: Ryan Cozad (Delray Beach, FL)

 

Boys' 14s: Roshan Deodhar (Dothan, AL)

 

Girls' 12s: Alana Berry (Greensboro, NC)

 

Boys' 12s: Evan Puente (Orlando, FL)

Boys' 14s: Asher Negandhi (Mobile, AL)

 

Girls' 14s: Jensen Dilanni (Rome, GA)

 

Boys' 12s: Dylan Meineke (Mobile, AL)

 

GIrls' 12s: Olivia De Los Reyes (Peachtree Corners, GA)

Girls' 18s: Caroline Daugherty/Meghan Rowley (Orlando, FL)

 

Boys' 18s: Gabe Getz/Henry Imorde (Orlando, FL)

 

Girls' 16s: Anna Bennett/Abigail Lee (Orlando, FL)

 

Boys' 16s: Tim Vargas/Kailash Chari (Orlando, FL)

 

Girls' 14s: Janica Bo/Madelyn Chang (Orlando, FL)

 

Boys' 14s: Mathias Mendez/Smith Anderson (Orlando, FL)

Girls' 18s: Annette Hernandez (Las Vegas, NV); Nicole Fu (Oklahoma City, OK)

 

Boys' 18s: Rowan Patorin (Las Vegas, NV); Lawson Prather (Oklahoma City, Okla.); Nolan Balazor (Cincinnati, OH)

 

Girls' 16s: Chelsea Burke (Hilton Head, SC); Jasmine Crain (Edmond, OK)

 

Boys' 16s: Rohan Patil (Las Vegas, NV); Theo Hegarty (Hilton Head, SC); Rudy Mazzola (Edmond, OK); Giovanni Rezk (Keswick, VA)

 

Girls' 14s: Lauren Wood (St. Louis, MO); Daniella Del Mastro (Hilton Head, SC)

 

Boys' 14s: Julian Zhang (Las Vegas, NV); Jake Mong (St. Louis, MO); Carter Jauffret (Hilton Head, SC)

 

Girls' 12s: Isabella Wolf (Las Vegas, NV); Daniella Villegas (Hilton Head, SC); Melissa Vasquez (Anaheim, CA); Roxanne Luu (East Providence, RI)

 

Boys' 12s: Max Lawson (Las Vegas, NV); Rafa Cordish (Hilton Head, CA); Taiki Bortolin (Anaheim, CA); Nathan Goldman (East Providence, RI)

Girls' 18s: Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett/Juhnyee See/Tina Kintiroglou (Naples, FL); Emily Baek (Edmond, OK); Andrea De Los Rios Martinez (Waipahu, HI)

 

Boys' 18s: Aaron Beduhn (Minneapolis, MN); Troy Kudrjavtsev/Lukas Phimvongsa/Shuarya Bharadwaj/Jimin Jung (Naples, FL); Cristian Pensavalle (Edmond, OK); Cayden Wang (Waipahu, HI)

 

Girls' 16s: Ellery Mendell (Sumter, SC)

 

Boys' 16s: Avner Wong (Bethany Beach, DE)

 

Girls' 14s: Kelly Shi (Anaheim, CA)

 

Boys' 14s: Boning Wang (Midlothian, VA)

 

Girls' 12s: Rya Johnson (Glen Clove, NY)

 

Boys' 12s: Evan Mohan (Glen Clove, NY)

Boys' 18s: Niels Hoffman (Orlando, FL)

 

Girls' 18s: Madison Liu (Orlando, FL)

 

Boys' 16s: Ilias Bouzoubaa (Orlando, FL)

 

GIrls' 16s: Skye Madatali (Orlando, FL)

 

Boys' 14s: Andy Deng (San Antonio, TX)

 

Girls' 14s: Goldie Kregar (San Antonio, TX)

 

Boys' 12s: Noah Kocis (San Antonio, TX)

 

Girls' 12s: Olivia Lin (San Antonio, TX)

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