BATON ROUGE — Megan Falcon of the LSU women’s tennis team has received another national award as she was named to the 2007 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Collegiate All-Star Team.
Falcon joins Miami’s No. 1-ranked Audra Cohen and Southern California’s No. 3-ranked Lindsey Nelson for the Division I women’s honor.
The ITA will honor the Collegiate All-Star Team, along with the ITA National Arthur Ashe winners at a special awards luncheon in New York City hosted by the United States Tennis Association on Aug. 25, 2007.
This award adds to Falcon’s already impressive list this year as she was named a 2007 Honda Award Finalist, ITA National Co-Player to Watch, Southwest Regional Player to Watch, All-SEC First Team, SEC Player of the Year, All-Louisiana Newcomer and Player of the Year, and a singles All-America honor.
Falcon, ranked No. 2 in the nation, became the first Lady Tiger to reach the semifinal round of the NCAA Individual Championship tournament after winning 28-straight matches this spring.
The USTA has selected Falcon, along with Audra Cohen of Miami, Natalie Frazier of Georgia and Kristi Miller of Georgia Tech, to be part of the Pan American Team.
Falcon will travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to compete in the Pan American Games to be held July 13-29, 2007. The Pan American Games has approximately 5,500 athletes from 42 countries participating in 33 sports.
Women’s tennis matches will be held July 18-22 at the Marapendi Country Club.
“I’m excited to have been selected to play on the Pan American Team. It should be a good international experience,” Falcon said. “I am looking forward to a different level of competition.”
The Pan American games are a continental version of the Olympic Games which includes the Olympic Program sports and others that are not part of the Olympics. Conducted every four years, always one year before the Olympic Games, the first Pan American Games were held in 1951, in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina.