{"id":2109,"date":"2014-04-08T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/speaks-named-socon-player-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:32:32","slug":"speaks-named-socon-player-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/speaks-named-socon-player-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaks named SoCon Player of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many freshmen are playing No. 1 singles. But Ansley Speaks isn\u2019t like many freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>Speaks was a major recruiting coup for Furman women\u2019s tennis coach Debbie Southern out of Mauldin High, and a tremendous start to her first season as a Paladin is showing why. Speaks was recently named the Southern Conference Player of the Month following a March performance in which she went 9-1 in in both singles and doubles play.<\/p>\n<p>She opened the month with three wins at No. 2 singles before moving up to No. 1 and is now 13-5 on the season in singles and 13-3 playing doubles with Blair Martin to help Furman to a 13-5 overall record and 6-0 mark in SoCon play.<\/p>\n<p>Speaks\u2019 parents were both Paladin athletes. Father Chris was a quarterback, while mother Jan Ingold was a member of the swim team. Speaks, a five-start recruit in high school, was ranked as high as 19<sup>th<\/sup> nationally by tennisrecruiting.net and is South Carolina\u2019s winningest player ever in Region II 4-A with a career mark of 191-20 combined for singles and doubles.<\/p>\n<p>She won a remarkable four 4-A\/3-A state singles championships, though that isn\u2019t even as remarkable as four times being named the South Carolina Player of the Year. At one point from 2010-12, Mauldin went 65-0. Speaks also ranked third in her graduating class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many freshmen are playing No. 1 singles. But Ansley Speaks isn\u2019t like many freshmen. Speaks was a major recruiting coup for Furman women\u2019s tennis coach Debbie Southern out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}