LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The Mountain West announced the 2026 Men’s Tennis All-Conference Team and annual accolades on Tuesday evening, as selected by the league’s eight head coaches.

UNLV’s Ilia Snitari has been named the Mountain West Men’s Tennis Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, marking just the third time in Conference history an athlete has won it in back-to-back years. The sophomore collected three MW Player of the Week honors this season and went 4-0 at the No. 1 spot against league foes during Mountain West play. That included a straight-sets victory over New Mexico’s No. 1, snapping the Lobos’ 30-match winning streak at that position that had dated back to January of 2022. Overall, the Moldova native went 27-2 in singles matches this year and is ranked No. 65 in the nation heading into this week’s 2026 Credit Union 1 MW Men’s Championship.

Fellow Rebel Marko Maksimovic was selected as the 2026 MW Freshman of the Year, marking a second straight UNLV sweep of the awards after Snitari also earned the freshman of the year nod last spring. He is the fifth Rebel overall to be selected for the freshman honor. The Serbia native won the MW Freshman of the Week award four times this season, going 4-2 at the No. 2 singles position against league competition and 10-4 on the year. Teaming with doubles partner Illia Maksymchuk, Maksimovic went 6-1 in doubles during MW play while going 11-2 overall as a pair.

ALL-MW SINGLES

Stewart Aronson, Jr., Boise State

Carson Baker, Jr., Boise State

Avery Tallakson, Jr., Boise State

Tristan Berard, So., Grand Canyon

Rémy Trégourès, So., Nevada

Dario Ciobotaru, Jr., New Mexico

Eugenio Gonzalez Fitzmaurice, Sr., San Diego State

Aleksi Lofman, Jr., San Diego State

Marko Maksimovic, Fr., UNLV

Ilia Snitari, So., UNLV

Jean-Baptiste Badon, Sr., Utah State

Xavier Calvelo, So., Utah State

Roman Venger, So., Utah State

ALL-MW DOUBLES

Carson Baker/Avery Tallakson, Boise State

Daniel Jankoski/Brice Patoux, Grand Canyon

William Kleege/Aleksi Lofman, San Diego State

Arda Karakas/Ilia Snitari, UNLV

Jean-Baptiste Badon/Dmitri Goubin, Utah State

Xavier Calvelo/Jakub Medved, Utah State

FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR

Marko Maksimovic, UNLV

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Ilia Snitari, So., UNLV