UNLV Athletics Hall Of Fame
The most decorated player in UNLV men's tennis history, Roger Pettersson came to Las Vegas all the way from Nykoping, Sweden, and immediately joined the lineup in the spring of 1993 for head coach Larry Easley. More than a decade later, he remains the only three-time conference player of the year in UNLV men's athletics history, regardless of sport. Pettersson was a six-time First Team All-Big West Conference (singles and doubles combined) honoree and won the 1996 Rafael Osuna Sportsman Award, which is a national honor from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. He was one-half of the first duo in school history to earn a spot in the NCAA Doubles Championship in 1995 and then returned to the NCAAs in 1996 and earned a school-record national ranking of No. 2. He also holds the record for highest singles ranking for a Rebel, reaching as high as fourth in 1994 and '96. The unflappable court star led UNLV to three conference championships from 1994-96 and helped the Rebels to a program-high team ranking of 16th during his senior season, which included an 18-match individual winning streak. A two-time singles All-American and `96 doubles All-American, Pettersson was a tremendous student and became his program's only CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American in 1996. A graduate of UNLV's world-renowned hotel college, he becomes only the second Hall-of-Famer in program history, following 1998 inductee Scott Warner.
