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2016-17 Men's Tennis Roster

Jim Agnew
Jim Agnew
Jim Agnew
Jim Agnew

Damon Niquet

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 165
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Milwaukee, Wis.
  • High School Marquette University

Biography

Honors
• Two-time CAA Singles Player of the Week
• One-time CAA Doubles Team of the Week

Senior Season (2016-17)
An ITA Scholar-Athlete selection … Tied for the team lead with 17 singles victories … Posted a team-best 14-4 mark in dual-match competition … Went 9-3 at No. 5 singles and played as high as No. 3, going 2-0 … Clinched Tribe victories over Brown, George Washington, Howard and the CAA quarterfinal win over Drexel … Won 10-straight singles matches between February 5 and April 7 … Posted back-to-back wins at No. 3 singles over Princeton’s Kial Kaiser nad Howard’s Karim Shokeir … Advanced to the second round of the ITA Atlantic Region Singles Championship … Posted a 10-8 doubles record playing exclusively with Christian Cargill, including a 7-2 mark during the fall … Advanced to the second round of the ITA Atlantic Region Doubles Championship with Niquet.

Junior Season (2015-16)
Finished the year at 17-9 overall, including an impressive 14-2 dual-match mark … Won 14 straight matches from Jan. 31 through April 16 in dual-match play … Picked up a trio of clinching wins for W&M in triumphs over Valparaiso, Binghamton and Coastal Carolina … Went 2-0 at the Rice Invitational securing wins over Zach Yablon of No. 40 Rice and against Ben Stride in W&M’s upset of No. 44 Drake … Rallied from a come-from-behind three-set win over Ben Lieb, 0-6, 7-5, 10-8, of No. 44-ranked Penn State … Provided the Tribe with a win at No. 6 singles the its upset of nationally-ranked Penn … Advanced to the fourth round of prequalifying at the ITA All-American Championship, knocking off LSU’s Cameron Andry and Mississippi State’s Lucas Sanchez … Compiled a 12-5 dual-match doubles record, playing at the No. 3 spot … Earned CAA Doubles Team of the Week honors with Christian Cargill on Feb. 17 … Helped the Tribe clinch the doubles point on five occasions, including three times with Cargill (Binghamton, Penn and Radford) and twice with Lars de Boer (Drake and UTSA).

Sophomore Season (2014-15)
Compiled a singles mark of 16-10 as a fixture in the Tribe lineup … Played as high as No. 2 in the lineup and saw the most action at No. 4, including during the CAA and NCAA Tournaments …  Finished at 12-7 in dual-match singles action, including a 7-2 ledger at No. 4 … Compiled a 2-1 mark at No. 2 singles … Provided the Tribe with key singles wins at the No. 4 position in CAA Tournament with victories over Elon’s Brian Kowalski and Charleston’s Vasily Kichigan … Clinched the Tribe’s wins over George Mason with a win at No. 4 … Posted a singles wins at No. 4 against No. 29 Harvard and at No. 57 Princeton … Named CAA Doubles Team of the Week along with Addison Appleby on Jan. 28 … Combined with Appleby to go 10-4 in doubles play … Won 20 doubles matches, including an impressive 16-5 ledger in dual-match play … Finished the season teaming with Christian Cargill at No. 3 doubles and the duo compiled a 7-1 mark, including five straight wins to end the year … The duo won all three matches during the CAA Tournament to help the Tribe to the doubles point in all three matches … Advanced to the round of 16 at the ITA Atlantic Region Doubles Championship with Will Juggins.

Freshman Season (2013-14)
Won the final eight singles matches of the year and led the Tribe with a 22-9 singles mark as a freshman … His winning percentage of 71 ranks seventh all-time among W&M freshmen … Racked up an impressive 15-3 (.833) dual-match singles mark, including an unprecedented 13-0 record at No. 5 singles … Led team with seven fall singles wins … Named CAA Singles Player of the Week on April 1 after wins against Delaware and No. 4 Virginia … Against the Cavaliers, downed Harrison Richmond, who was ranked as high as No. 51 nationally during the season and was a 2013 alternate for the NCAA Singles Championship … Clinched W&M wins over South Carolina State, UTSA, Delaware and UMBC … Won at No. 5 singles against No. 24 Penn State … Notched an important win at No. 5 singles in the Tribe’s come-from-behind win over ODU … Won his CAA semifinal match at No. 4 singles, outlasting Charleston’s Zach Lewis in three sets … Posted a 14-8 (.636) doubles mark, including a 7-1 dual-match mark … Went 3-1 at the UVA Fall Invitational in the Black Singles Flight.

Prep
Named a two-time high school All-American … A two-time state champion and a two-time state runner-up in Wisconsin … Selected as the Wisconsin State Player of the Year on two occasions … Helped Marquette University High School to four team state championships under David Frank … A two-time team captain at Marquette … A four-star recruit by the Tennis Recruiting Network … Winner of the Frank Parker Jr. Award … Rated as high as No. 9 nationally in the Class of 2013 by the Tennis Recruiting Network in 2010 … Finished ranked No. 81 nationally, No. 10 in the Great Lakes Region and No. 1 in Wisconsin for the Class of 2013 … Played tennis since the age of four under the direction of Robert Budiono, Erick Martinez and Timon Corwin … A sports writer for high school newspaper … Member of the Philosophy Club … Volunteered with special needs children at Golda Meir Elementary School.

Personal
Son of James Niquet and Noelle Muceno.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14Freshman

    Player
    6'0" 165 lbs
  • 2014-15Sophomore

    Player
    6'0" 165 lbs
  • 2015-16Junior

    6'0" 165 lbs
  • 2016-17Senior

    6'0" 165 lbs