SKILLMAN, N.J. --- Tusculum College's Lukas Winkelmann is the No. 38 ranked singles player in the country according to the final 2013-14 Intercollegiate Tennis Association's NCAA Division II men's rankings.

Winkelmann, a 6-2, 180-pound junior from Boeblingen, Germany, posted a perfect 23-0 singles record this year and is also listed 10th in the ITA/NCAA II Southeast Region singles rankings. Winkelmann also posted a 20-3 record in doubles, including 19-2 with his younger brother Jonas at the No. 1 flight.

Winkelmann swept the top two South Atlantic Conference men's tennis awards for a second straight year, earning Player of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year accolades. He becomes the first men's tennis player to sweep both awards in consecutive seasons.

In the classroom, Winkelmann sports a 3.94 cumulative grade point average as a pre-medicine major. He has earned selections to the Tusculum Athletic Director's Honor Roll, the TC President's List, the Charles Oliver Gray Honors List, the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll and the ITA All-Academic Team.

He did not lose a set in singles in his 11 conference matches, and in the process became the first Tusculum player to be a two-time SAC Player of the Year and just the second in league history to win back-to-back Player of the Year awards.

Winkelmann has a 52-7 career singles record and has won 33 consecutive regular-season matches dating back to the middle of last year. He is a three-time All-SAC performer and was the SAC Freshman of the Year in 2012.

Winkelmann was named to the 2012-13 Capital One Academic All-America® first team, becoming the first Tusculum sophomore to garner Academic All-America® first team distinction.

He is a three-time team most valuable player and is been named the Tusculum College Male Athlete of the Year in each of the last two seasons.

The Pioneers posted an 18-5 overall team record as TC finished second in the SAC regular-season standings and garnered runner-up honors at the SAC Tournament.

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