BERKELEY – After posting one of its best seasons in program history through the Pac-12 Championships, California captured most of the top annual Pac-12 awards on Wednesday as the Conference named Maegan Manasse its Singles Player of the Year, tabbed Manasse and Denise Starr as the Doubles Team of the Year and named Olivia Hauger the Freshman/Newcomer of the Year. Those three Golden Bears plus seniors Klara Fabikova and Lynn Chi also claimed All-Pac-12 honors.

“It's an honor to be recognized by our conference and the other coaches in our conference for the season that we've had this year,” Cal head coach Amanda Augustus said. “It reflects all the hard work put in by all the players on our team. To have over half of our starting lineup make the team is very exciting. We finished the Conference season strong with two victories at the Pac-12 Championships in singles by Maegan and Olivia.”

Manasse, this year's Pac-12 singles champion and a two-time All-American in 2015, garnered a spot on the All-Pac-12 First Team. In the recent Pac-12 Championships, the Redondo Beach, California, native became just the third Bear to win the singles title when she defeated UCLA's defending champion Catherine Harrison, 6-3, 6-2. Cal's previous honorees were Raquel Kops Jones in 2004 and Zsuzsanna Fodor in 2006, who also won the Pac-12 singles titles in those years. Manasse, a junior with a 29-10 singles record and three Pac-12 Player of the Week honors this season, is ranked seventh in singles in the latest Oracle/ITA poll, and the pair of Starr and Manasse is ranked fifth in doubles, with new team, singles and doubles rankings coming out on Thursday.

The duo of Starr and Manasse is just the third Cal pair to claim the Pac-12 Doubles Team of the Year award, joining the 2007 pair of Fodor and Suzi Babos and the 2011 NCAA championship team of Mari Andersson and Jana Juricova. In the fall, Manasse and Starr picked up some major hardware when they won the doubles crown at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships. The two Bears have compiled a record of 19-9 through the Pac-12 Championships.

Starr, who earned doubles All-America honors last season with Manasse, earned 2016 All-Pac-12 Second-Team status along with Fabikova and Chi. A junior from Brooklyn, New York, Starr has compiled a singles record of 25-7, including a perfect 8-0 Pac-12 dual-match play, and was named Pac-12 Player of the Week once this year.

Fabikova, a product of Brno, Czech Republic, is a two-time Pac-12 Player of the Week this season and has posted a singles record of 32-9 that includes her consolation title victories from the Oracle/ITA Masters and from national indoors in the fall. The 2015 doubles All-American – who with Zsofi Susanyi were the NCAA doubles runners-up last year– has an 18-13 doubles mark this season, which includes an 18-9 record when paired with Hauger. Chi, from Weston, Florida, has a 20-4 singles record and 13-4 doubles record, including a 10-3 mark when teamed with freshman Maria Smith. The NCAA singles runner-up and a singles All-American in 2014, Chi posted a 12-match winning streak in singles this spring that included a big come-from-behind victory over Florida's Kourtney Keegan, 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-3, in Cal's exciting win over previously unbeaten Florida.

Hauger, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the fourth Bear to garner Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Year honors along with Juricova in 2009, Babos in 2005 and Kops-Jones in 2001. This year's Pac-12 singles invitational champion, Hauger's overall singles record is 28-6, and her doubles record is 22-11. Hauger also earned All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention after a debut season at Cal that included some clutch victories, including the one that clinched Cal's first title at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship and another that decided the thrilling win over Florida. Hauger became the first Bear to collect the Most Outstanding Player award at national indoors, after she clinched the 4-3 win over defending champ North Carolina in the final. She joined sophomore teammate Karla Popovic on the national indoor all-tournament team.

The top-seeded Bears next play on May 13, when they host Texas Rio Grande Valley in the first round of the NCAA team tournament at the Hellman Tennis Complex.