For Immediate Release
Friday, April 26, 2024
NSIC Media Relations

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Augustana University’s Florentia Hadjigeorgiou was voted by the league coaches as the NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year in women's tennis. A native of Deryneia, Cyprus, Hadjigeorgiou is majoring in biology with an emphasis in pre-veterinary medicine and holds a 3.37 cumulative grade point average. 

The “NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award” is presented to a NSIC Women's Tennis student-athlete who participates at their institution for four years and is academically superior while making a positive contribution to their team and the University. The NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year award was initiated in 2020-21 to honor an outstanding senior that exemplifies the attributes of the model NSIC student-athlete.

Hadjigeorgiou has played in the top two positions for the Vikings since her freshman season. She qualified for the Fall ITA National tournament twice (once in singles and once in doubles) and has been ranked nationally in both singles and doubles. She was named the 2023 NSIC Player of the Year and has been an All-NSIC first team performer in singles and doubles the past three seasons. She has also been named NSIC Player of the Week eight times in her career, including five times this season. 

Off the court, Hadjigeorgiou created a Vet Club on campus and has volunteered at two vet clinics in Sioux Falls, helping and rescuing over 100 stray animals. 

"Florentia has been a joy to coach over the years," said Head Coach Marc Kurtz. "I feel that she exemplifies what an outstanding senior should be. It starts with her being a captain and setting an example for our younger players on how to work at practice and how to carry yourself on the tennis court. She's a hard worker who is very committed to her tennis and her academics."

About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 15-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 27 team national championships and crowned 113 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.
 
About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes have the opportunity to earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.