Orkis Named CUNYAC’s top student-athlete
BC Tennis Star Becomes First Bulldog Ever to Receive Honor
Senior Yuliya Orkis capped a spectacular four-year run as the best tennis player in the City University of New York Athletic Conference by becoming the first-ever Brooklyn College Bulldog to be named the league’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year last week.
“It feels amazing,” said Orkis, who also was tabbed CUNYAC Tennis Player of the Year for the fourth consecutive time while posting a near-flawless 3.929 cumulative grade-point average as a theater/acting major at the Brooklyn school.
“I never thought that I would win this award because I know how many hard working student-athletes are out there,” the St. Edmund Prep alum. “It makes me look back on the last four years and feel very proud of all of the time I have put in. To be honored with such a title gives me even more drive and determination to be as hard working in my professional career as I head out into the world. I am thrilled and honored to be the first Brooklyn College student to receive such a prestigious award and proud to be able to represent my school and my department in such a way. To know that I will go down in Brooklyn College history for this is something I will be able to take with me everywhere I go. It makes me so proud to be a Brooklyn College student, athlete and theatre artist.”