FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Carol A. Reep Associate Director of Championships 317/917-6222
2010 NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN’S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS SINGLES AND DOUBLES SELECTIONS
INDIANAPOLIS--The NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Subcommittee has selected the 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams that will compete in the 2010 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis
Championships.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 26-31 at the Dan Magill Tennis
Complex in Athens, Georgia, following the conclusion of the team championship (May 20-25). The
University of Georgia will serve as host.
All matches shall be the best of three sets. Regular scoring and a 12-point tiebreaker at six games all will be used for all matches.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championships will be awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee will apply the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All singles players must have a record of a minimum of 13 completed singles matches in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championships will be awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered NCAA NEWS RELEASE May 5, 2010 Page No. 2 ______
doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee will apply the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have a record of a minimum of 10 completed doubles matches in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.
SINGLES
Automatic qualifications (19), listed alphabetically by conference:
Atlantic Coast Irina Falconi Georgia Tech Big East Kristy Frilling Notre Dame Big Ten Maria Mosolova Northwestern Big 12 Lenka Broosova Baylor Big West Jenifer Widjaja Pacific Colonial Diana Nakic Georgia State Conference USA Marta Lesniak SMU Ivy Holly Cao Harvard MAC Zaruhi Harutyunyan Akron Missouri Valley Lutfiana Budiharto Wichita State Mountain West McCall Jones Brigham Young Northeast Selma Babic Long Island Pacific-10 Jana Juricova California Patriot Jurelle Mendoza Army SEC Allie Will Florida Southland Martina Rubesova Northwestern State Sun Belt Ute Schnoy Denver West Coast Jennifer Heinser San Francisco WAC Anastasia Petukhova Fresno State
At-large selections (45), listed alphabetically by last name:
Mari Andersson California Hilary Barte Stanford Josipa Bek Clemson Kristi Boxx Mississippi Mallory Burdette Stanford Venise Chan Washington Fani Chifchieva Auburn Marina Cossou California NCAA NEWS RELEASE May 5, 2010 Page No. 3 ______
Denise Dy Washington Bianca Eichkorn Miami (Florida) Aeriel Ellis Texas Lauren Embree Florida Nadine Fahoum Old Dominion Nadja Gilchrist Georgia Chelsey Gullickson Georgia Lindsey Hardenbergh Virginia Micaela Hein Arizona State Noelle Hickey UCLA Michaela Kissell Marshall Danielle Lao Southern California Sanaz Marand North Carolina Lauren McCreless Florida State Nina Munch-Soegaard TCU Denise Muresan Michigan Samantha Murray Northwestern Kristina Nedeltcheva UNLV Catherine Newman Vanderbilt Ellah Nze Duke Martina Pavelec Wake Forest Elzé Potgieter Texas A&M Alison Ramos Southern California Irene Rehberger South Florida Andrea Remynse UCLA Maria Sanchez Southern California Yasmin Schnack UCLA Nina Secerbegovic Baylor Pichittra Thongdach Boise State Anouk Tigu Arkansas Katrina Tsang North Carolina Nazari Urbina Texas A&M Laura Vallverdu Miami (Florida) Caitlin Whoriskey Tennessee Jackie Wu Vanderbilt Reka Zsilinszka Duke Ana Zubori South Carolina
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ALTERNATES: 1. Alexa Guarachi Alabama 2. Elisabeth Fournier Washington State 3. Monica Milewski Colorado 4. Liudmila Vasilieva Washington State 5. Maria Sorbello Tennessee 6. Krista Damico Texas 7. Julia Trunk San Diego State 8. Marrit Boonstra Florida
Seeds 1-8:
1. Irina Falconi Georgia Tech 2. Jana Juricova California 3. Maria Sanchez Southern California 4. Hilary Barte Stanford 5. Lenka Broosova Baylor 6. Yasmin Schnack UCLA 7. Allie Will Florida 8. Laura Vallverdu Miami (Florida)
Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name:
Venise Chan Washington Denise Dy Washington Lauren Embree Florida Kristy Frilling Notre Dame Chelsey Gullickson Georgia Maria Mosolova Northwestern Anastasia Petukhova Fresno State Caitlin Whoriskey Tennessee
DOUBLES
Automatic qualifications (16), listed alphabetically by conference:
Atlantic Coast Gabriela Mejia Laura Vallverdu Miami (Florida) Atlantic Sun Valentina Galbarini Carolina de los Santos Stetson Big East Kristy Frilling Kali Krisik Notre Dame Big Ten Whitney Taney Rika Tatsuno Michigan Big 12 Lenka Broosova Csilla Borsanyi Baylor Big West Suzie Matzenauer Brittany Blalock Cal Poly Colonial Nadine Fahoum Joanna Dobrowolska Old Dominion C-USA Michaela Kissell Dominica Zaprazna Marshall Ivy Taylor Marable Hilary Bartlett Princeton NCAA NEWS RELEASE May 5, 2010 Page No. 5 ______
Missouri Valley Delia Damaschin Stephanie Dalmacio Wichita State Mountain West Katariina Tuohimaa Kayla Duncan TCU Pacific-10 Lindsay Burdette Hilary Barte Stanford SEC Caitlin Whoriskey Natalie Pluskota Tennessee Southern Holly Dowse Emma Hayman College of Charleston Sun Belt Sophia Bergner Ute Schnoy Denver WAC Lauren Megale Pichittra Thongdach Boise State
At-large selections (16), listed alphabetically by institution:
Alexa Guarachi Courtney McLane Alabama Mari Andersson Jana Juricova California Josipa Bek Ina Hadziselimovic Clemson Anna Redecsi Selma Salkovic DePaul Marrit Boonstra Allie Will Florida Chelsey Gullickson Nadja Gilchrist Georgia Irina Falconi Sasha Krupina Georgia Tech Sonja Molnar Merel Beelen Iowa Karen Nijssen Kristi Boxx Mississippi Sophie Grabinski Sanaz Marand North Carolina Lauren Lui Elena Chernyakova Northwestern Ana Zubori Dijana Stojic South Carolina Melissa Koning Irene Rehberger South Florida Andrea Remynse Yasmin Schnack UCLA Sasha Kulikova Kathryn Talbert Wake Forest Denise Dy Joyce Ardies Washington
ALTERNATES:
1. Caitlin Whoriskey * Maria Sorbello Tennessee 2. Lauren Embree Allie Will * Florida 3. Lauren Embree Anastasia Revzina Florida 4. Ina Hadziselimovic * Keri Wong Clemson 5. Rosalia Alda Zsofia Zubor Tennessee 6. Katrina Tsang Shinann Featherston North Carolina 7. Amanda Granson Ellah Nze Duke 8. Chelsea Preeg Jackie Wu Vanderbilt 9. Elzé Potgieter Nazari Urbina Texas A&M 10. Bianca Eichkorn Anna Bartenstein Miami (Florida)
* If a student-athlete would have been selected to the championship with two different partners, that student-athlete has the ability to be an alternate in the draw with the other partner. This only comes into play if the student-athlete not listed on both teams is unable to participate.
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Seeds 1-4:
1. Caitlin Whoriskey Natalie Pluskota Tennessee 2. Lindsay Burdette Hilary Barte Stanford 3. Kristy Frilling Kali Krisik Notre Dame 4. Andrea Remynse Yasmin Schnack UCLA
Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution:
Josipa Bek Ina Hadziselimovic Clemson Marrit Boonstra Allie Will Florida Chelsey Gullickson Nadja Gilchrist Georgia Gabriela Mejia Laura Vallverdu Miami (Florida)
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