Valparaiso University tennis senior Moira Silva (Houston, Texas / Westside) garnered the Missouri Valley Conference Singles Player of the Week honor for the second straight week on Tuesday.
 
Silva enjoyed a perfect 2-0 week at No. 1 Singles, taking down a pair of all-conference performers from last season by winning both of her matches. Silva played a crucial role in Valpo's first victory over Butler since 2007 on Saturday as her three-set win at No. 1 Singles helped the Beacons stop an 11-match head-to-head losing streak. She defeated Butler's Chase Metcalf 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, reversing a 7-5, 7-5 loss to Metcalf from last season. That helped Valpo turn last year's 7-0 loss to the Bulldogs into a 4-3 victory this season. Metcalf was a unanimous First Team All-Big East performer last season.
 
Silva's success continued on Sunday as she dropped just two games in an impressive 6-1, 6-1 victory over Western Illinois' Richardlyne Francois at No. 1 Singles. Francois was an All-Ohio Valley Conference First Team choice last season and earned the league's Freshman of the Year Award. Silva improved to 9-2 overall and 7-0 in dual matches this season, climbing into a tie for sixth in program history with her 57th career singles win.
 
This marked Silva's 11^th career MVC weekly award and third this season as she became the first Valley player to win this award in consecutive weeks since Drake's Ines Stephani did so in 2024. Silva became the first Valpo player to go back-to-back with the conference's Singles Player of the Week honor since joining the Missouri Valley Conference.
 
Valpo will continue a stretch of home tennis on Saturday at 2 p.m. by hosting Purdue Northwest at the Courts of Northwest Indiana.