Edward Winter, Hugh Winter Garner WCC Men's Tennis All-Academic Honors

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Edward Winter has been named to the West Coast Conference All-Academic Team, while his brother Hugh garnered All-Academic Honorable Mention, as announced today by the WCC.

Edward continues to rightfully collect accolades, earning his third academic after having earned his sixth career All-Conference award yesterday. The sophomore previously collected WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention in 2025 and WCC Commissioner's Roll (Bronze) in 2024. On the court, Edward has played the majority of his singles matches at the No. 1 position this season, most recently defeating 89th-ranked Lucca Liu from UC Santa Barbara in straight sets.

Hugh Winter's All-Academic Honorable Mention is his first collegiate academic award. The sophomore, who is majoring in Sport Administration, dominated in singles this regular season, going 5-1 overall. Three of those five wins came in WCC action, most recently beating Tristan Messerli from LMU on Saturday to help the Waves clinch a share of the WCC regular season title. Hugh has also starred in doubles matches, winning a pair of WCC Doubles awards last season before winning 10 of 14 official doubles matches this season.

The Waves will play the winner of the Santa Clara (3-seed) - Saint Mary's (6-seed) matchup on Friday at noon pacific time in the semifinal round of the WCC Tournament.

2026 West Coast Conference Men's Tennis All-Academic Team
Adrien Berrut, San Diego
Tannor Binder, Portland
Terrence Das, Pacific
Valentin Faure, Santa Clara
Tom Garcia, Portland
Jonty Giesen, Pacific
Stian Klaassen, San Diego
Bastien Maxant, Saint Mary's
Thibaud Maxant, Saint Mary's
Neo Niedner, San Diego
Oscar Rashed, Gonzaga
Lambert Ruland, San Diego
Edward Winter, Pepperdine

West Coast Conference Men's Tennis All-Academic Honorable Mention
Gonzaga
Giovanni Branchetti
Tom Dunlop
Jay Fairclough
Diego Herrera
Gus Krauel

LMU
Cesar Cruz
Alex Padro Parra
Darius Tamaddon
Max Wuelfing

Pacific
Christof Schaertlin Coffey

Pepperdine
Hugh Winter

Portland
Nikola Keremedchiev
Stefan Skobelev

Saint Mary's
Paulo Hugo Etchecoin
Pierre Lieutaud

Santa Clara
Luca Bluett
Alex Watanabe Eriksson
Luca Lemaitre

ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN'S TENNIS
Pepperdine men's tennis has a longstanding tradition of success, highlighted by an NCAA Championship in 2006 which came 54 years after its first NAIA Championship in 1952. Robbie Weiss recorded the program's first NCAA singles championship in 1988 after the program saw doubles national championships in 1984 and 1985. 44-time WCC Champions, Pepperdine has reached 40 NCAA Tournaments and six NCAA Regionals in its history with 53 total All-Americans.

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Edward Winter, Hugh Winter Garner WCC Men's Tennis All-Academic Honors

Players Mentioned

Edward Winter

Hugh Winter

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