Eastern Michigan Athletics
Daneva & Mendez Carreño Earn CSC Academic All-District
5/12/2026 3:23:00 PM | Tennis
Duo selected for academic and athletic achievement for the 2025-26 season
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) -- The College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced their annual CSC Academic All-District honors for women's tennis today, May 12, with two members of the Eastern Michigan University program earning the academic award for the 2025-26 season. Iva Daneva and Regina Mendez Carreño were honored by the national organization as two of the 534 student-athletes recognized across the nation among the NCAA Division I programs sponsoring the sport.
To be eligible for the annual academic award, players must be sophomores or higher academically and athletically while maintaining a 3.50 grade-point average or higher. Each student-athlete must also have competed in at least 75 percent of his/her team's spring schedule for the given year.
Daneva (Kavadarci, North Macedonia/DSU Sportska Akademija) posted a 9-12 combined record after coming off an injury that cut her freshman season short. Despite going 0-3 in singles play, she was 9-9 in doubles action, including 8-8 when paired with Mendez Carreño throughout the dual season with two matches going unfinished despite the duo leading in their match. The two paired together from the start of the spring with their wins in the first two matches of the season, clinching the doubles point for the Eagles. Daneva also was paired with MAC Freshman of the Year Cylova Zuleyka Hukmasabiyya (Serang, Indonesia/SMAN 2 Kota Serang), with the team going 1-1 in MAC play, including a tough 7-6(4) decision in the season finale.
Carreño (Los Cabos, Mexico/Picacho McGregor) was a major contributor in her senior season as she completed 28 singles and 28 doubles matches (56 combined) after playing 65 total singles and doubles matches in her first three years in Ypsilanti. She finished the 2025-26 season with 20 wins, including a 12-16 mark in singles play and an 8-20 mark in doubles. Her singles win total tied her career high (12 in 2024-25) while her doubles victories more than doubled the seven she accumulated previously. Additionally, she won her first MAC singles match with a 6-3, 6-2 home win over Isabella Righi of Northern Illinois University while she posted two wins in doubles action against MAC foes after having not played in a conference doubles match in her first three seasons.
Overall, Daneva and Mendez Carreño became the seventh and eighth members of the program, respectively, to earn academic accolades from the CSC and brought the program's total to 10 all-district honors earned.
Eastern Michigan's CSC Academic All-District Honors
Eight Eagles with 10 awards earned
Brichackova, Sabina (2024, 2025)
Daneva, Iva (2026)
Duhme, Simone (2002)
Frankowski, Vanessa (2008)
Komar, Marta (2025)
Mendez Carreño, Regina (2026)
Quiroz, Andrea (2024)
Vichare, Prerna (2022, 2025)
* Tennis moved into its own award in 2022-23 (was part of at-large previously)
To be eligible for the annual academic award, players must be sophomores or higher academically and athletically while maintaining a 3.50 grade-point average or higher. Each student-athlete must also have competed in at least 75 percent of his/her team's spring schedule for the given year.
Daneva (Kavadarci, North Macedonia/DSU Sportska Akademija) posted a 9-12 combined record after coming off an injury that cut her freshman season short. Despite going 0-3 in singles play, she was 9-9 in doubles action, including 8-8 when paired with Mendez Carreño throughout the dual season with two matches going unfinished despite the duo leading in their match. The two paired together from the start of the spring with their wins in the first two matches of the season, clinching the doubles point for the Eagles. Daneva also was paired with MAC Freshman of the Year Cylova Zuleyka Hukmasabiyya (Serang, Indonesia/SMAN 2 Kota Serang), with the team going 1-1 in MAC play, including a tough 7-6(4) decision in the season finale.
Carreño (Los Cabos, Mexico/Picacho McGregor) was a major contributor in her senior season as she completed 28 singles and 28 doubles matches (56 combined) after playing 65 total singles and doubles matches in her first three years in Ypsilanti. She finished the 2025-26 season with 20 wins, including a 12-16 mark in singles play and an 8-20 mark in doubles. Her singles win total tied her career high (12 in 2024-25) while her doubles victories more than doubled the seven she accumulated previously. Additionally, she won her first MAC singles match with a 6-3, 6-2 home win over Isabella Righi of Northern Illinois University while she posted two wins in doubles action against MAC foes after having not played in a conference doubles match in her first three seasons.
Overall, Daneva and Mendez Carreño became the seventh and eighth members of the program, respectively, to earn academic accolades from the CSC and brought the program's total to 10 all-district honors earned.
Eastern Michigan's CSC Academic All-District Honors
Eight Eagles with 10 awards earned
Brichackova, Sabina (2024, 2025)
Daneva, Iva (2026)
Duhme, Simone (2002)
Frankowski, Vanessa (2008)
Komar, Marta (2025)
Mendez Carreño, Regina (2026)
Quiroz, Andrea (2024)
Vichare, Prerna (2022, 2025)
* Tennis moved into its own award in 2022-23 (was part of at-large previously)
Players Mentioned
/ Tennis
/ Tennis
2025-26 EMU Athletics In-Review
Tuesday, April 21
Spring Weekend 2026 Cinematic Recap
Monday, April 20
Tennis Falls to Western Michigan on Senior Day
Sunday, April 19
Highlights: Tennis falls to NIU, 4-3, in MAC Home Opener
Friday, March 13