WINTHROP, Mass. - Simmons College women's tennis player Meg Cokely (Haverhill, Mass.) was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Women's Tennis Player of the Week for the week of September 1-7, it was announced today by the league.

The junior posted a perfect 4-0 record at second singles to go with a 1-3 mark at first doubles. Cokely did not drop a set in singles action and did not lose more than four games in any one set. A graduate of Haverhill High School, she defeated her opponent at Wheaton, 6-1, 6-4 and came back just two days later to take down her Mount Holyoke College foe, 6-3, 6-1. Cokely defeated her Roger Williams opponent, 6-1, 6-4 in the Sharks' home opener on September 3 and was the victor over her opponent from Clark University, 6-0, 6-0 on September 6 to cap the week. Cokely teamed with classmate Caroline Khoury (Portsmouth, Ohio) to win at number one doubles over Clark, 8-5.

Named a Co-Captain prior to the season, Cokely has been one of the most successful singles and doubles players for Simmons over the last three seasons, compiling a combined 55-27 (.671) record between singles and doubles play. The junior posted a combined mark of 22-9 last year, including 12-4 in doubles action. She was 9-3 in dual match singles play, including a victory in NCAA Tournament play, while going 11-1 in doubles action in head to head play. Cokely has never lost a conference singles match, putting together a sterling 9-0 record in GNAC contests, primarily at the number three spot in the lineup, before ascending to the second spot this year. She has been outstanding in league doubles action as well, posting a 10-1 mark in those matches at the top position in the lineup.

The Sharks are currently 3-1 on the season and will return to action on Wednesday, September 10 when they host Babson College at 3:30 p.m. in a dual match to be played at the Beren Tennis Center on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.