Daniel Rodrigues

AWARDS
3x First-Team All-SEC (2019, 2020, 2022)

ITA Carolina Region Rookie of the Year (2019)

SEC All-Freshman Team (2019)

4x ITA Scholar-Athlete (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

4x SEC Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

2x SEC All-Tournament Team (2020, 2021)

CoSIDA Academic All District Team (2022)

CoSDIA Academic All-American – Second Team (2022)

ITA Senior Player of the Year (2022)

IN THE RECORD BOOKS
Individual Career
4th – Singles wins vs. ranked opponents (24 in 2019-present)
9th – Singles matches played vs. ranked opponents (43 in 2019-present)
T-30th – Singles wins (91 in 2019-present)

Individual Season
T-2nd – Singles wins vs ranked opponents (15 in 2020-21)
3rd – Singles winning percentage (.750 (15-5) in 2020-21)
T-3rd – SEC singles wins (9 in 2020-21)
T-5th – Combined SEC matches won (15 in 2020-21)
T-6th – Combined SEC winning percentage (.682 (15-7) in 2020-21)
T-7th – Singles matches played (20 in 2020-21)
T-18th – Singles wins (32 in 2018-19)
T-19th – Combined wins (53 in 2018-19)
T-19th – Combined matches won (53 in 2020-21)
Tied for most SEC wins by a sophomore in program history (9 in 2020-21)
Most singles wins vs. ranked opponents by a sophomore (15 in 2020-21)

Doubles Team Season
1st – No. 1 wins (15 in 2020-21) – with Connor Thomson
T-1st – No. 1 SEC wins (6 in 2020-21) – with Connor Thomson
2nd – Matches played (35 in 2002-21) – with Connor Thomson
T-4th – Matches won (22 in 2020-21) – with Connor Thomson

2021-22 (JUNIOR)

• Earned ITA All-America status in both singles and doubles
• Went 26-5 in singles overall on the season, posting 22 dual wins, all from the No. 1 position
• Earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Singles Championships as the No. 1 overall seed
• Ranked as high as No. 1 in the country in singles, becoming the only Gamecock to ever achieve the ranking in consecutive years
• Went on a 12-match singles win streak through conference play with all 12 wins coming over ranked opponents
• Was named SEC Player of the Week four times during the season with two of them consecutive
• Earned 19 ranked wins during the season with the highest coming over No. 9
• Ended the season ranked No. 3 in the country in singles, tying himself for highest final ranking in program history
• Advanced to the NCAA Doubles Championship semifinals with Connor Thomson, the furthest a Gamecock doubles pair has ever advanced
• Ranked as high as No. 4 in doubles with Connor Thomson, ended the season ranked No. 6, the highest final doubles ranking in program history
• Earned 13 ranked doubles wins throughout the season with the highest coming over the nation’s No. 2 team

2020-21 (SOPHOMORE)

• Became the second Gamecock in as many NCAA Tournaments to reach the Singles Championship match, finishing as Runner-Up
• Earned ITA All-America standing and First-Team All-SEC status, just the third Gamecock to capture that league standing multiple times in his career
• Ended the season ranked No. 3 in the country in singles, tying him for highest final ranking in program history
• Ranked No. 11 in the nation in doubles with Connor Thomson, the program’s highest final doubles ranking since the end of the 1988-89 season
• Posted program top-five numbers in singles wins vs ranked opponents (15, 2nd) and singles winning percentage (.750 (15-5), 3rd)
• Of his 32 singles wins, 15 came against nationally ranked opponents with seven of them being in the top 25, including over the Nos. 2 and 3 players
• Teamed with Thomson to earn a spot in the NCAA Doubles Championship after posting 22 doubles wins, the fourth most in a season in program history, including a program-record 15 at the No. 1 spot in the dual-match lineup
• Won nine SEC singles matches, which is the third most in Gamecock history, and picked up a school-record six SEC No. 1 doubles wins with Thomson
• Reached a No. 1 ranking in ITA singles on March 30, becoming the first Gamecock to achieve that ranking

2019-20 (SOPHOMORE)

• Won four ranked singles matches on the year, including his first two of the season vs. No. 21 and No. 48
• Won the White Singles Draw at the Gamecock Fall Invitational (Sept 20-22) to open his season
• Partnered with fellow sophomore Raphael Lambling to advance to the semifinals of the ITA All-American Championship Consolation draw

2018-19 (FRESHMAN)

• Named Carolina ITA Region Rookie of the Year, finishing the season ranked No. 65 in singles and as part of the 63rd-ranked doubles team in the nation with Raphael Lambling
• Picked up First-Team All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman honors behind a 7-4 singles record and a 5-6 doubles mark in league play
• Turned in second-most singles victories on the team (32), which ranked him in the program’s all-time top 20 for single-season victories and second all-time among Gamecock freshmen
• Took command of the No. 2 spot in the singles lineup with a 13-6 record at the position, including a 7-4 mark in SEC action
• Scored his highest-ranked singles win of the season in the SEC Tournament semifinals, defeating No. 61 Giovanni Oradini of Mississippi State (Apr. 20) in three sets
• Clinched the win over No. 28 Vanderbilt (Mar. 23) with a tough win in the No. 2 spot in the order
• Won the A1 Singles flight at the Wake Forest Fall Invitational (Nov. 9-11), which he capped with his first win over a nationally ranked opponent in a 6-2, 6-1 dismantling of No. 87 Nick Stachowiak of Duke

PRE-COLLEGE

• Joined the program with an ITF Juniors ranking of 708

RODRIGUES CAREER SINGLES

RODRIGUES CAREER DOUBLES