April 30, 2007
Sophomore Matt Bruch (Lake Forest, IL/Lake Forest) of the Stanford men's tennis team was selected as the Stanford/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week for Apr. 23-29.
Bruch won both the Pac-10 men's singles and doubles championships April 29 at Ojai. It was Bruch's second consecutive Pac-10 men's singles championship and his first doubles title. He teamed with Blake Muller to win the doubles championship. Bruch went 5-0 in the Pac-10's and beat three nationally-ranked opponents along the way, including a 6-0, 6-4 win over Alex Slovic of Washington for the championship. Bruch not only gave Stanford its fourth-straight conference singles champion, but he became the third player in Cardinal history to win back-to-back Pac-10 titles, joining Sam Warburg (2004, 2005) and Alex O'Brien (1991, 1992). Bruch is not the first Cardinal to win both the Pac-10 singles and doubles titles in the same year. Sam Warburg accomplished that feat in 2005.
This is Bruch's first Stanford/Muscle Milk Student-Athlete of the Week honor.
Past Stanford/Muscle Milk Student-Athletes of the Week
April 16-April 22 Lindsey Burdette
April 9-April 15 David Sender
April 2-April 8 Lauren Todd
March 26-April 1 Liz Tricase
March 12-March 18 Josh Zupancic
March 4 - March 10 David Sender
Feb. 26-March 4 Joseph Bramlett
Feb. 19-Feb.25 Ben Wildman-Tobriner
Feb. 12-Feb. 19 Brook Lopez
Feb. 5-Feb. 11 Cassidy Krug
Jan. 29-Feb. 4 Elaine Breeden
Jan. 22-Jan. 28 Shaun Phillips
Jan. 15-Jan. 21 Liz Tricase
Jan. 8-Jan. 14 Julia Smit
Jan. 1-Jan. 7 Lawrence Hill
Dec. 25-Dec. 31 Brooke Smith
Dec. 18-Dec. 25 Tanner Gardner
Dec. 11-Dec. 17 Jayne Appel
Dec. 4-Dec. 10 Cynthia Barboza
Nov. 27-Dec. 3 Lawrence Hill
Nov. 20-Nov. 26 Arianna Lambie
Nov. 14-Nov. 19 Josh Zupancic
Nov. 6-Nov. 13 Michael Okwo
Oct. 30-Nov. 5 Celia Durkin
Oct. 23-Oct. 29 Rachel Buehler
Oct. 16-Oct. 22 Janson Wigo
Oct. 9-Oct. 16 Bryn Kehoe
Oct. 1-Oct. 8 Liz Robinson
Sept.25-Oct. 1 Neftalem Araia
Sept.18-Sept. 24 John Moore