2021 Georgia Southern Women's Tennis Postseason

2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS POSTSEASON GUIDE

2021 SUN BELT CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS 2021 Georgia Southern Women’s Tennis. Kneeling (l-r) Nadja Meier, Sonja Keranen. Standing (l-r) Sophie Wagemaker, Sara Barriendo, Hannah Daniel, Paula Boixader, Charlotte van Diemen, Elizabeth Goines, Paula Hijos, Mila Hartig. 2020-21 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS ROSTER NAME YEAR HOMETOWN Sara Barriendo Freshman Santander, Spain Paula Boixader 5th Year Barcelona, Spain Hannah Daniel Junior Watkinsville, Ga. Elizabeth Goines Junior Atlanta, Ga. Mila Hartig Senior Pretoria, South Africa Paula Hijos Sophomore Jaca, Spain Sonja Keranen Freshman Nurmijarvi, Finland Nadja Meier Sophomore Potsdam, Germany Olivia Rothfeld Freshman Boca Raton, Fla. Charlotte van Diemen Senior Berkel and Rodenrijs, Netherlands Sophie Wagemaker Freshman Zuid-Scharwoude, Netherlands

Head Coach: Sean McCaffrey (4th Season) Graduate Assistant Coach: Lena Lutzeier (First Season) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Elena Tendero (First Season)

Location...... Statesboro, Ga. Head Coach...... Sean McCaffrey Founded...... 1906 Record at Georgia Southern �� 56-32 / 4 Years Enrollment...... 27,459 Overall Record...... 259-150 / 18 Years Nickname...... Eagles 2021 Record ��19-8 Colors...... Blue and White 2021 Sun Belt Record (Finish) ��7-3 (2nd East) Affiliation...... NCAA Division I 2021 Sun Belt Tournament ��1st Conference...... Sun Belt Tennis Contact �� Chad Jackson President ...... Dr. Kyle Marrero Cell Phone...... (912) 713-7399 Athletic Director ��Jared Benko 2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS PLAYER CAPSULES

Sara Barriendo Paula Boixader Freshman 5th Year Santander, Spain Barcelona, Spain 2021 Dual Match Singles: 2-0 2021 Dual Match Singles: 8-10 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 3-0 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 11-11 Freshman who has seen limited action for the Eagles Fifth-year who has collected 60 singles wins and this season ... Won her first collegiate singles match on 67 doubles wins in her career ... Joined Georgia Feb. 21, defeating Jessica Lindsey of ABAC, 6-1, 6-2 ... Southern in 2018 after playing her freshman year Teamed with Hannah Daniel for a pair of doubles wins at Armstrong State ... Earned 2017-18 All-Sun Belt over ABAC and with Elizabeth Goines for a doubles win second team doubles honors ... Won a key 6-7 (9), over Albany State. 6-4, 6-3 singles match against South Alabama’s All-Conference player Nikola Kohoutova to help the Eagles clinch the 2021 Sun Belt Championship ... Graduated from Georgia Southern in May 2020 with her bachelor’s degree in Marketing and will graduate this summer with her master’s degree in Professional Communication. Hannah Daniel Junior lizabeth oines Watkinsville, Ga. E G 2021 Dual Match Singles: 1-0 Junior 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 6-7 Atlanta, Ga. Doubles specialist who has won 16 doubles matches 2021 Dual Match Singles: 13-7 in her three seasons with the Eagles ... Picked up her 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 11-9 singles win in 2021 vs. Albany State on March 11 ... The “match clincher” who has secured the deciding Went 2-0 with partner Mila Hartig ... Notched a 6-3 point in all three of Georgia Southern’s 4-3 wins this doubles win with partner Sonja Keranen over No. 3 season, including the 2021 Sun Belt Championship (DIII) Emory on April 3 ... Has played with six different match vs. South Alabama on 4/18 ... Won the decid- doubles partners during the 2021 season. ing match in the Eagles’ 4-3 win at Troy on March 21 and the 4-3 win vs. South Alabama on April 10 ... Went 11-5 at the No. 6 singles spot, including 5-2 in Sun Belt action ... Was 4-2 in three-set singles matches, but 4-0 in matches not decided by a Mila Hartig 10-point tie breaker ... Went 8-3 in doubles with Senior partner Sonja Kernanen at No. 3 doubles. Pretoria, South Africa Paula Hijos 2021 Dual Match Singles: 14-4 Sophomore 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 3-2 aca pain Solid singles player who has collected 48 wins in her J , S 2021 Dual Match Singles: 13-6 four seasons as an Eagle ... Led the team as a freshman 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 1-2 with 16 singles wins ... Is an unbeaten 4-0 in three-set Sophomore who has been a solid performer in singles matches this season ... Has won nine of her last the singles lineup during her two seasons as an 11 singles matches heading into the NCAAs ... Notched Eagle ... Led the team with 10 singles wins in the a huge straight-set singles win over Milka Pasanen at abbreviated 2020 campaign ... Is 13-6 this Spring, No. 4 singles in the 2021 Sun Belt Championship match including an 8-5 mark at No. 5 singles ... Earned the win over South Alabama on April 18 ... Also won a 4-6, Eagles’ lone point at No. 5 Georgia on Feb. 17 with 6-3, 6-0 victory over Carla Pons of UTA in the semifinals. a 6-2, 6-4 win over Ariana Arsenault ... Defeated the College of Charleston’s Victoria Waller, 7-6, 7-5, helping the Eagles earn their first win over the Cougars in 21 years. 2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS PLAYER CAPSULES

Sonja Keranen Nadja Meier Freshman Sophomore Nurmijarvi, Finland Potsdam, Germany 2021 Dual Match Singles: 3-0 2021 Dual Match Singles: 15-9 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 13-11 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 10-11 True freshman who has found a spot at No. 3 doubles 2021 All-Sun Belt Conference First Team Singles ... in her first season with the Eagles ... Is 10-4 at the No. 2x Sun Belt Player of the Week (2/12/20, 3/31/21) 3 doubles spot this season, including 8-3 at the spot ... First Georgia Southern player to earn Sun Belt with partner Elizabeth Goines ... Helped the Eagles weekly honors and first-team singles honors ... Has clinch the pivotal doubles point in the 2021 Sun Belt won 14 of her 15 singles matches in straight sets Championship match with a 6-3 win over Otoha and ... Defeated Yu Fujioka of South Alabama, 6-4, 6-3, Bernabeu of South Alabama on April 18 ... Picked up on April 10, handing the Sun Belt Player of the Year her first collegiate singles wins with a 6-0, 6-0 victory her only in-conference singles loss ... Went 9-2 in over Kaden Walker of ABAC on Feb. 21. singles as a freshman in the shortened 2020 season ... Is 11-4 this season at No. 2 singles and 4-3 at No. 1 singles, including going 2-1 at No. 1 singles during the Eagles’ run to the 2021 Sun Belt Tournament Olivia Rothfeld title. Freshman harlotte van iemen Boca Raton, Fla. C D True freshman who has yet to see action for the Eagles Senior this season ... Played at Boca Prep International in Boca Berkel and Rodenrijs, The Netherlands Raton, Florida ... Reached the semifinals of the Broward 2021 Dual Match Singles: 8-5 Prize Money Open, Age Category and National Tennis 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 12-10 Rating Program Championship in 2019. 2021 All-Sun Belt Conference Doubles First Team, part of the first doubles duo to earn first-team honors from the Sun Belt ... Teamed with Sophie Wagemaker to go 9-8 at No. 1 doubles this season ... Defeated No. 6 duo from UCF on January 30 ... Went 3-0 at No. 1 doubles with Wagemaker to help the Eagles capture the 2021 Sun Belt Tournament Championship ... Went 8-1 in singles and 6-4 in doubles during the truncated 2020 season ... Has Sophie Wagemaker collected 25 singles and 30 doubles wins over her Freshman four-year career ... Three-time Sun Belt Conference Zuid-Scharwoude, The Netherlands Commissioner’s Academic List honoree. 2021 Dual Match Singles: 11-7 2021 Dual Match Doubles: 10-11 2021 All-Sun Belt Conference Doubles First Team, part of the first doubles duo to earn first-team honors from the Sun Belt ... True freshman who has locked down the No. 3 singles spot for the Eagles, going 10-3 at the position this season ... Teamed with Charlotte van Die- men to go 9-8 at No. 1 doubles this season ... Defeated No. 6 duo from UCF on January 30 ... Went 3-0 at No. 1 doubles with Wagemaker to help the Eagles capture the 2021 Sun Belt Tournament Championship ... Picked up a key 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 win over Polina Akimova of UTA in the Sun Belt semifinals to help the Eagles clinch the match. 2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS SEASON RESULTS

2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS BULLET POINTS • Georgia Southern’s 19 wins in 2021 is a single-season school record, surpassing the 17 wins collected by the 1980 and 1982 teams • The NCAA Championships berth is the first in program history. Georgia Southern previously com- peted in the AIAW DII National Championships in four straight years from 1980-83 • The Eagles ended the 2021 season on an 11-match win streak, the longest for Georgia Southern since the 1996 team ended the season on a 12-match win streak • The Sun Belt Conference tournament title is the first conference tournament title for Georgia Southern women’s tennis in a team format. The Eagles previously won the 1995 and 1996 SoCon tournaments in a flighted format • Head Coach Sean McCaffrey is the first conference Coach of the Year for Georgia Southern since Cathy Beene was the SoCon Coach of the Year in 1998 • Georgia Southern started the 2021 season 1-12 against DI opponents in the doubles point. The Eagles finished the season 6-3 in the doubles point, including winning all three doubles points in the 2021 Sun Belt Tournament. The Eagles are overall 12-15 in 2021 in the doubles point. • Sean McCaffrey’s 56 wins in four seasons - including the shortened 2020 season - are the most for Georgia Southern in a four-year stretch since the 1980-83 stretch in which the Eagles won 59 matches and made four straight appearances in the AIAW DII National Championships 2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S SEASON STATISTICS

2021 GS Women's Tennis Georgia Southern Season Statistics (Through games of Apr 18, 2021)

Overall record: 19-8 • Conference: 7-3 • Region: 0-0 • Home: 12-2 • Away: 4-6 • Neutral: 3-0 vs National ranked: 0-1 • vs Regional ranked: 0-0

vs ranked Last SINGLES Overall Dual Tour Conf 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nat'l Reg'l Strk 10 Paula Boixader 8-10 8-10 0-0 0-3 6-9 2-1 ------0-2 0-0 W1 1-3 Nadja Meier 15-9 15-9 0-0 5-4 4-3 11-4 0-2 ------0-1 0-0 L1 8-2 Sophie Wagemaker 11-7 11-7 0-0 5-3 --- 0-3 10-3 1-1 ------0-1 0-0 L1 6-3 Charlotte van Diemen 8-5 8-5 0-0 2-1 --- 1-2 4-2 3-1 ------0-2 0-0 W5 6-2 Mila Hartig 14-4 14-4 0-0 4-2 ------1-0 9-4 3-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 W4 7-2 Sonja Keranen 3-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 ------1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 W3 3-0 Paula Hijos 13-6 13-6 0-0 5-3 ------1-0 2-1 8-5 2-0 0-0 0-0 L1 5-2 Sara Barriendo 2-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 ------1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 W2 2-0 Elizabeth Goines 13-7 13-7 0-0 5-2 ------1-0 1-2 11-5 0-0 0-0 W1 6-1 Hannah Daniel 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 ------1-0 0-0 0-0 W1 1-0 Totals 88-48 88-48 0-0 26-18 10-12 14-10 16-7 17-7 14-7 17-5 0-7 0-0 Percentage .647 .647 .000 .591 .455 .583 .696 .708 .667 .773 .000 .000

vs ranked Last DOUBLES TEAMS Overall Dual Tour Conf 1 2 3 Nat'l Reg'l Strk 10 Charlotte van Diemen/Sophie Wagemaker 9-8 9-8 0-0 2-4 9-8 ------1-0 0-0 W4 5-5 Charlotte van Diemen/Nadja Meier 3-2 3-2 0-0 2-0 3-2 ------0-0 0-0 W3 3-2 Paula Boixader/Sophie Wagemaker 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-2 --- 0-0 0-0 L1 1-2 Paula Boixader/Nadja Meier 6-3 6-3 0-0 3-1 --- 6-3 --- 0-0 0-0 L1 6-3 Paula Boixader/Sonja Keranen 3-3 3-3 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-3 1-0 0-1 0-0 W2 3-3 Paula Hijos/Nadja Meier 1-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 --- 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 W1 1-1 Elizabeth Goines/Mila Hartig 1-1 1-1 0-0 0-0 --- 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 W1 1-1 Hannah Daniel/Mila Hartig 2-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 --- 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 W2 2-0 Hannah Daniel/Nadja Meier 0-4 0-4 0-0 0-3 --- 0-2 0-2 0-0 0-0 L4 0-4 Hannah Daniel/Elizabeth Goines 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 --- 0-1 --- 0-0 0-0 L1 0-1 Paula Boixader/Paula Hijos 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 --- 0-1 --- 0-1 0-0 L1 0-1 Elizabeth Goines/Sonja Keranen 9-7 9-7 0-0 3-6 --- 1-4 8-3 0-0 0-0 W1 5-5 Sara Barriendo/Hannah Daniel 2-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 ------2-0 0-0 0-0 W2 2-0 Paula Boixader/Hannah Daniel 1-2 1-2 0-0 0-2 ------1-2 0-0 0-0 L1 1-2 Hannah Daniel/Sonja Keranen 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 ------1-0 0-0 0-0 W1 1-0 Sara Barriendo/Elizabeth Goines 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 ------1-0 0-0 0-0 W1 1-0 Sonja Keranen/Nadja Meier 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 ------0-1 0-0 0-0 L1 0-1 Mila Hartig/Sophie Wagemaker 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-1 ------0-1 0-0 0-0 L1 0-1 Totals 40-37 40-37 0-0 10-17 14-10 11-16 15-11 1-2 0-0 Percentage .519 .519 .000 .370 .583 .407 .577 .333 .000 2021 GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS HEADLINES SUN BELT CHAMPIONS! Women’s Tennis Outlasts South Alabama, 4-3, For First Sun Belt Title

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. - East second seed Georgia Southern overcame a 3-1 deficit, winning a pair of third-set matches to win the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship with a 4-3 victory over East top seed South Alabama on Sunday afternoon at the Peachtree Tennis Center. The Eagles run their win streak to 11 straight and claim their first Sun Belt tournament title, as well as their first NCAA Championships berth after earning the league's automatic qualifier. Georgia Southern moves to 19-8 on the campaign, extending its school-record single-season win total. The Eagles also avenged a 4-1 loss to South Alabama in the 2019 Sun Belt Tournament Championship match. South Alabama falls to 15-6 on the year with the loss. Georgia Southern claimed the doubles point to take an early 1-0 lead. Sonja Keranen and Elizabeth Goines picked up a 6-3 win at No. 3 doubles, then Charlotte van Diemen and Sophie Wagemaker rallied from a 5-4 deficit to win 7-5 at No. 1 doubles over Cami Moreno and Yurie Takanishi. "The doubles proved to be giant," Georgia Southern Head Coach Sean McCaffrey said. "I think we struggled so much of our season in being able to get that point. We were always in every match, but it would just come down to something that didn't go our way. So we just had to tighten things up, and improve our discipline when it comes to being a little more efficient with how we play. I sensed a momentum shift when we got it to 5-5 at No. 1 doubles. We drew on that, and I was really happy for Lot [Charlotte van Diemen] and Sophie to get that match." South Alabama seemingly took control of the match early in singles, winning five of six first sets. Yu Fujioka avenged an earlier-season loss at No. 1 singles to the Eagles' Nadja Meier with a 6-4, 6-3 win to tie the match at 1-all. Moreno then downed Sophie Wagemaker, 6-1, 6-4, at No. 3 singles to put the Jaguars in front. Otoho Aoki's 6-3, 6-3 win at No. 5 singles made the score 3-1, when the Eagles' Mila Hartig collected a 6-2, 7-5 win at No. 4 singles to close the gap to 3-2. "I just kept on walking around and saying - be relentless," Coach McCaffrey said about South Alabama claiming the first set in five of the six singles matches. "Just because we're down now, it's a three-set match. So just find a way to dig down deep. I could feel Mila was going to get her match. I wanted Liz [Elizabeth Goines] to just get some footing after a fast first set. I figured she could just find a way to keep it close, and push it to a third set, anything could happen. And she did a good job of that. After dropping their first sets, Paula Boixader and Elizabeth Goines each rallied to win their second sets at No. 2 and No. 6 singles, respectively, and send their singles matches to deciding third sets. Boixader finished off a 6-3 third-set win to tie the score at 3-all, then Goines won 6-2 in the third set over Diana Monsalve, closing out the match by winning 13 of her last 15 points in the set. "With Paula, I knew we needed some sort of momentum shift," Coach McCaffrey said. "I told her at 3-2 in the second set that any time you get a ball in the mid- dle of the court, extend the court and go big off the forehand. And if you win two or three points in a row, go crazy, cheering. It really turned her game on and was a big difference maker. If she doesn't win, Liz doesn't get a chance to clinch. Lena [Lutzeier] and I told Liz at the beginning of the year that she was going to clinch the conference championship for us in Atlanta. And she did it." "It's so good to see the team experience this, with so many fans and former players from both the men's and women's teams at Georgia Southern," Coach Mc- Caffrey said about the Championship. "It was great to share that experience with them. This was really special. We started this, almost from scratch. In just four seasons, the women have done an amazing job. I'm proud of the team, and proud to be a part of Georgia Southern. This was their main goal at the beginning of the season, and they accomplished it. If things get in your way, you just have to stay true to the philosophy and the process, and amazing things can happen. Our women showed that today." Sean McCaffrey Named Sun Belt Coach of the Year; Three Eagles Earn First-Team Honors

STATESBORO - Georgia Southern Head Women’s Tennis Coach Sean McCaffrey was named the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year, while three Eagles earned first-team All-Sun Belt Conference honors with the release of the league’s annual awards on Wednesday. Sophomore Nadja Meier was named first-team All-Conference singles, while the duo of Charlotte van Diemen and Sophie Wagemaker were named first-team All-Conference doubles. The trio are the first Georgia Southern student-athletes to earn first-team All-Sun Belt honors since the Eagles joined the league in 2015. McCaffrey led Georgia Southern to a 19-8 overall record in 2021, setting a new school record for single season wins, while also going 7-3 in league play to earn the East No. 2 seed in the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Tournament. The Eagles defeated ULM, 4-0, then knocked off both of the top seeds from the West and the East, UT Arlington and South Alabama, respectively, to claim the 2021 Sun Belt Conference Tournament Title. The title is the first conference tournament title for Georgia Southern tennis since 1996 and also earns the Eagles their first NCAA Championships berth. This is the third conference Coach of the Year honor for Georgia Southern women’s tennis - McCaffrey joins Cathy Beene (1998) and Gary Glassman (1995) as honorees, both of whom earned Coach of the Year honors from the SoCon. Individually, this is McCaffrey’s fifth overall conference coaching honor. He was the Peach Belt Conference’s 2016 Women’s Coach of the Year at Armstrong State and The Commonwealth Coast Conference’s 2008 Coach of the Year at Colby-Sawyer. He also has earned men’s tennis Coach of the Year honors from the Peach Belt (2016, Armstrong State) and the Horizon League (2012, Wright State). Nadja Meier becomes the first Georgia Southern women’s tennis player to be named first-team All-Conference in singles since Paola Garrido was a first-team All-SoCon singles player in 2012. She went 15-9 in singles play this spring, including a 4-3 mark at No. 1 singles and an 11-4 mark at No. 2 singles. The Potsdam, Germany, native also went 9-2 in singles as a freshman during the shortened 2020 campaign. She handed 2021 Sun Belt Player of the Year Yu Fujioka her only singles loss of the conference season with a 6-4, 6-3 win on April 10th and won 13 of her 15 singles matches in 2021 in straight sets. Overall, Meier is the fourth Georgia Southern player to earn All-Sun Belt singles honors, joining second-team honorees Anne Kurzweil (2015), Giulia Riepe (2016) and Arianne de Winter (2018). In doubles, van Diemen and Wagemaker become the first Eagles to earn first-team All-Conference doubles since Isabella Kling and Amy Bartlett were first-team All-SoCon doubles honorees in 2001. The duo went 9-8 in doubles in 2021, all at the No. 1 doubles position, and went a perfect 3-0 in the 2021 Sun Belt Confer- ence Tournament play to help the Eagles capture the championship. The pair also knocked off the No. 6-ranked doubles duo of Marie Mattel and Rebeka Stolmar of UCF on January 30th by a 6-2 score. During the regular season, the pair claimed Sun Belt doubles wins over Moreno and Takanishi of South Alabama, as well as Dalla-Bonna and Mount of Coastal Carolina. The pair are the third duo to earn All-Sun Belt doubles honors, joining second-team honorees Arianne de Winter/Paula Boixader (2018) and Arianne de Winter/ Emilia Bujan (2019). GEORGIA SOUTHERN WOMEN’S TENNIS YEAR BY YEAR

Year Head Coach Overall Conference/Postseason 1973-74 Nancy R. Dillard 11-3 GAIAW Tmt Runner-Up 1974-75 Marsha Conner 3-8 GAIAW Tmt T10th 1975-76 Dr. George Shriver 9-5 GAIAW Tmt Runner-Up 1976-77 Dr. George Shriver 6-10 GAIAW Tmt Runner-Up 1977-78 Dr. George Shriver 13-6 GAIAW Tmt Runner-Up 1978-79 Dr. George Shriver 15-7 GAIAW Tmt Runner-Up 1979-80 Dr. George Shriver 17-4 AIAW DII NC Unknown 1980-81 Dr. George Shriver 15-5 AIAW DII NC 11th of 27 1981-82 Dr. George Shriver 17-2 AIAW DII NC 4th of 32 1982-83 Dr. George Shriver 10-7 AIAW DII NC 4th of 27 1979-80 TEAM - FIRST AIAW NATIONALS BERTH 1983-84 John Gompert 4-9 1984-85 Dr. George Shriver 10-8 1985-86 Dr. George Shriver 11-10 NSWAC Tmt Runners Up 1986-87 Joe Blankenbaker 5-12 NSWAC Tmt 4th Place 1987-88 Joe Blankenbaker 6-13 NSWAC 6th of 7 Teams 1988-89 Pat Breen 3-9 NSWAC 6th of 8 Teams 1989-90 Pat Breen 10-7 NSWAC 6th of 7 Teams 1990-91 Pat Breen 9-5 NSWAC 6th of 7 Teams 1991-92 Gary Glassman 4-10 2-4 SoCon (6th of 7 Tmt) 1992-93 Gary Glassman 7-12 2-5 SoCon (4th of 8 Tmt) 1993-94 Gary Glassman 11-6 5-2 SoCon (3rd of 8 Tmt) 1994-95 Gary Glassman 14-3 7-0 SoCon (1st of 8 Tmt) 1995-96 Joe Blankenbaker 15-2 7-0 SoCon (1st of 8 Tmt) 1982-83 TEAM - 4th AIAW DII NATIONALS 1996-97 Cathy Beene 7-7 4-3 SoCon (5th of 8 Tmt) 1997-98 Cathy Beene 13-7 8-0 SoCon (Tmt Semis) 1998-99 Cathy Beene 5-13 3-6 SoCon (Tmt QF) 1999-2000 Cathy Beene 9-10 5-3 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2000-01 Cathy Beene 4-14 1-8 SoCon (Tmt 1st Round) 2001-02 Cathy Beene 5-15 2-7 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2002-03 Erica Perkins 10-9 5-4 SoCon (Tmt SF) 2003-04 Erica Perkins 12-12 4-6 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2004-05 Amy Bonner 10-13 5-5 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2005-06 Amy Bonner 7-16 3-6 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2006-07 Amy Bonner 8-11 4-5 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2007-08 Amy Bonner 11-11 4-5 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2008-09 Amy Bonner 13-7 7-3 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2009-10 Amy Bonner 11-9 5-5 SoCon (DNQ Tmt) 1994-95 SOCON TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS 2010-11 Amy Bonner 10-11 3-7 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2011-12 Amy Bonner 6-15 2-8 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2012-13 Amy Bonner 10-12 4-6 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2013-14 Amy Bonner 10-11 4-5 SoCon (Tmt QF) 2014-15 Amy Bonner 10-8 3-2 Sun Belt (Tmt QF) 2015-16 Michelle Stanford-Causey 12-9 2-3 Sun Belt (Tmt QF) 2016-17 Michelle Stanford-Causey 11-12 0-5 Sun Belt (Tmt QF) 2017-18 Sean McCaffrey 14-7 3-2 Sun Belt (Tmt QF) 2018-19 Sean McCaffrey 14-13 4-6 Sun Belt (Tmt Runners-Up) 2019-20 Sean McCaffrey 9-4 Season cancelled 3/11 - COVID-19 2020-21 Sean McCaffrey 19-8 7-3 Sun Belt (Tournament Champions) Overall 475-427 (.527) 1997-98 SOCON REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS

HEAD COACH SEAN MCCAFFREY • 2021 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year • 259-150 overall collegiate coaching record in women’s tennis • 56-32 at Georgia Southern in four years • Career 446-256 record in both men’s and women’s tennis in a combined 30 seasons Sean McCaffrey is in his fourth season as the head women’s tennis coach for Georgia Southern University for the 2021 season. Already, this season has shaped up to be one of the best in the 48-year history of Georgia Southern Women’s Tennis. The Eagles have set a new school single-season record for wins (19) and will be making their first NCAA Championships appearance, by winning the 2021 Sun Belt Conference tournament title. The groundwork for the success of 2021 was laid within the three previous years under Coach McCaffrey. The Eagles had their 2020 season cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but posted a solid 9-4 record just ahead of starting conference play. Georgia Southern recorded notable wins over Kennesaw State, Mercer and Toledo. The team also saw the program’s first ever Sun Belt Confer- ence women’s tennis athlete of the week in freshman Nadja Meier on Feb. 12. The Eagles pulled off a dramatic run to the 2019 Sun Belt Conference tournament finals in just his second season at the helm of the program, directing the eighth-seeded Eagles to upsets of top-seeded Appalachian State and fourth-seeded UT Arlington to earn just the second conference tournament finals berth in school history. With the upset, McCaffrey becomes only the second coach to knock off the top seed as an eight seed in an NCAA division I women’s conference championship tournament and the first to do so since 2003. Overall, Georgia Southern compiled a 14-13 record and featured All-Sun Belt Conference doubles honorees Emilia Bujan and Arianne de Winter. In his first season with the Eagles in 2018, McCaffrey led the Blue and White to a 14-7 record and was able to pick up their second tournament victory in as many seasons. The Eagles tough slate in 2017 had three NCAA tournament teams and featured programs from multiple Power 5 and Group of 5 conferences. McCaffrey led the Eagles to six match winning streak heading into conference play and upset the No. 8 seeded Louisiana, 4-2, in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. With the Eagles finishing 14-7 on the season head coach Sean McCaffrey collected his 400th career victory at the collegiate level and now posts a 402-226 (.640) record in his fifteen years. Sean McCaffrey joined the Georgia Southern athletics department in June 2017 as the head women’s tennis coach after three highly successful seasons as head men’s and women’s tennis coach for Armstrong State University in Savannah. In his first season at the helm of Armstrong State, McCaffrey led the women’s tennis team to an unbeaten 32-0 record. The Armstrong State men also enjoyed a successful season, finishing as NCAA DII semifinalists and a final No. 3 national ranking after going 24-5. The 2015-16 season saw Armstrong State women’s tennis team finished 31-1 and featured three of the Top 10-ranked singles players in the nation, including PBC Player of the Year Lena Lutzeier. The men advanced to the NCAA Semifinals for a third straight year, finishing the season with a 26-3 record and a final No. 3 national ranking. In his final season with the Pirates, McCaffrey led both the women to the NCAA Division II National Semifinals while the men advanced to the Round of 16 before bowing out. The women posted at 26-5 record in 2016-17 while the men went 20-8. The Pirates’ program ended after those losses due to the consolidation between GS and ASU, but McCaffrey was announced as the Eagles’ head coach on June 1, 2017. His final tally as the head coach at ASU was 89-6 (.936) with the women’s program and 68-16 (.809) with the men’s program for a overall tally of 159-22 (.878). McCaffrey joined Armstrong State in 2014 from Division I Wright State University, where he served as the head men’s and women’s tennis coach for six seasons. As the head coach for Wright State, McCaffrey was named the 2012 Horizon League Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year for leading the Raiders to the program’s first regular season Horizon League title and an overall record of 18-5. Overall in his six seasons, McCaffrey accumulated a 78-69 record with the men’s program (.531). Prior to joining Wright State, McCaffrey was the head coach at Division III Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, accumulating a career record of 39-17 (.696) in three seasons with the men and a 60-19 career record (.759) in five seasons with the women for an overall 99-36 record (.733). In his 16 seasons of collegiate coaching, his overall men’s and women’s tennis record stands at 425-243 (.636). A native of Saratoga Springs, New York, McCaffrey graduated from Johnson State College (Vt.) with his bachelor’s degree in history in 2007. He earned an associate degree in recreation and leisure management from Johnson & Wales University in 1995 where he served as team captain in 1994 and the following year was a player/coach who helped lead the Wildcats to an 11-1 record. McCaffrey previously attended Adirondack Community College where he was named Most Outstanding Player of the 1991 team that went 12-2 and finished as the runner-up at the New York State Junior College tournament. In 2019, he earned his master’s of science degree in kinesiology and coaching from Georgia Southern. McCaffrey and his wife, Deborah, have two daughters, Cora and Maddie.