Five Irvine Valley men's tennis players were recently named to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association 2015 All-American Team for California Community Colleges.
Irvine Valley sophomores Guillermo Ucelay, Max Rumeau, Simon Guillin and Valentin Baize and freshman Flavien Raveau were each chosen.
To make All-American, a player must finish in the top 10 in singles of the final ITA college tennis rankings or in the top five in doubles of the final ITA rankings.
Ucelay was picked All-American for both singles and doubles. Raveau was selected in singles and Rumeau, Guillin and Baize were picked in doubles.
The five players helped Irvine Valley win the program's first ever California Community College Athletic Association State Championship this past spring.
IVC was the runner-up at the state championships in 2014.
The Lasers also won their second straight Orange Empire Conference title.
All five players were also named to all-conference teams.
Ucelay was named the conference's player of the year for the second season in a row.
He helped Irvine Valley end the 2015 season with a record of 18-1. IVC's lone loss came to NAIA ranked four-year school Concordia.
Ucelay had a record of 10-3 in singles on the year with two unfinished contests. He had a record of 12-4 in doubles competition.
Ucelay reached the semifinals of the state tournament in singles.
As IVC's top doubles squad through the regular season, Ucelay and Guillin finished with a record of 12-3.
One of their losses in doubles was a default in the Orange Empire Conference Championships after the duo had already qualified for the State Championships.
The duo ended up finishing as the runner-ups in the state doubles final.
Raveau went 11-5 in singles on the year and reached the semifinals in singles in the state championships where he fell to eventual champion Hironori Koyanagi of Ventura.
Baize and Rumeau had a record of 14-3 on the season when being paired together in doubles. One of those losses also came via default in the conference tournament after also qualifying for the state event.
The duo made a magical run to win the State Championships doubles title, defeating teammates Ucelay and Guillin in the final, 6-4, 6-1, in Ojai in late April.
