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2015 GEORGIA TECH WOMEN’S TENNIS MEDIA ALMANAC Georgia Tech Communications & Public Relations @GTAthletics www.RamblinWreck.com WOMEN’S TENNIS QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION Full Name: Georgia Institute of Technology Quick Facts IFC Location: Atlanta, Ga. Communications & PR 2 Founded: 1885 Enrollment: 25,000 MEET THE TEAM Nicknames: Ramblin’ Wreck, Yellow Jackets 2017-18 Team Picture and Roster 4 Colors: Old Gold and White Student-Athlete Profiles 5-8 Court: Ken Byers Tennis Complex Coaches Profiles 9-10 Adminstration 11-12 GEORGIA TECH President: Dr. G. P. “Bud” Peterson Athletics Director: Todd Stansbury HISTORY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FAR: Dr. Charles L. Isbell, Jr. 2007 National Champions 13 SWA: Joeleen Akin ACC Championships 14-15 150 Bobby Dodd Way NW Series History 16-23 COACHING STAFF Year-by-Year Results 24-29 Atlanta, GA 30332 Head Coach: Rodney Harmon Post-season History 30 404-894-5400 Years at Tech: 6th Honors & Awards 31-33 www.RamblinWreck.com Career Record: 114-67/7 years All-Time Letterwinners 34 Twitter: @GTAthletics Record at Tech: 92-44/5 seasons RECORDS Alma Mater: SMU, 1983 Facebook: GTAthletics Career and Individual Records 35 Instagram: @GTAthletics Assistant Coach: Christy Lynch YouTube: RamblinWreckTube Years at Tech: 4th TEAM INFORMATION 2017 Overall Record: 27-5 2017 ACC Record: 13-1 CREDITS 2017 Home Record: 15-0 2017 Road Record: 8-1 EDITORS 2017 Neutral Record: 4-4 Liz Ryan 2017 ACC Tournament: 2-1 2017 NCAA Tournament: 2-1 COMPILATION Liz Ryan HISTORY First Year: 1977 (40th season) Overall Record: 545-397 ACC Record: 144-154 PHOTOGRAPHY ACC Tournament Record: 27-25 Danny Karnik NCAA Appearances/Last: 17/2017 NCAA Tournament Record: 29-16 COMMUNICATIONS & PR Communications & PR Contact: Liz Ryan © 2016, Georgia Tech Athletic Association Email: [email protected] Phone: 404-894-5445 Website: www.ramblinwreck.com Twitter:@GTAthletics; @GT_WTEN Facebook:GTwomenstennis Instagram: @GT_WTEN 2017-18 GEORGIA TECH WOMEN’S TENNIS INFORMATION GUIDE @GT_WTEN COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS GEORGIA TECH COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS Arthur B. Edge Jr. Intercollegiate Athletics Center 150 Bobby Dodd Way NW, Atlanta, GA 30332 Phone: 404-894-5445 | www.RamblinWreck.com INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS MIKE FLYNN Assistant AD / Communications & Public Relations Responsibilities: Football1 Alma Mater: Miami (Ohio), 2001 | Joined GTAA: June 2016 Office: 404-894-5445 | Cell: 828-964-6406 | Email: [email protected] | @MFlynnGT MIKE FLYNN MIKE STAMUS Assistant AD Associate Director Associate Director Communications & Public Relations Communications & Public Relations MIKE STAMUS Responsibilities: Men’s Basketball, Golf, Football Credentials Alma Mater: Virginia Tech, 1983 | Joined GTAA: August 1983 Office: 404-894-5445 | Cell: 404-218-9723 | Email: [email protected] | @BusterStamus KEVIN DAVIS Assistant Director Responsibilities: Football2, Baseball, Swimming & Diving Alma Mater: Gardner-Webb, 2005 | Joined GTAA: August 2016 Office: 404-894-5445 | Cell: 704-974-9095 | Email: [email protected] | @kldavis12 LIZ RYAN Assistant Director Responsibilities: Women’s Basketball, Women’s Tennis Alma Mater: North Carolina, 2007 | Joined GTAA: August 2016 Office: 404-894-5445 | Cell: 404-431-9619 | Email: [email protected] KEVIN DAVIS LIZ RYAN Assistant Director Assistant Director ALEX KEATOR Assistant Director Communications & Public Relations Communications & Public Relations Responsibilities: Volleyball, Softball Alma Mater: Syracuse, 2016 | Joined GTAA: July 2016 Office: 404-894-5445 | Cell: 413-207-2604 | Email: [email protected] | @aykayy24 ANDREW CLAUSEN Assistant Responsibilities: Track & Field / Cross Country, Men’s Tennis Alma Mater: Appalachian State, 2016 | Joined GTAA: July 2017 Office: 404-894-5445 | Cell: 704-301-2818 | Email: [email protected] DIGITAL MEDIA TYLER WHEELER Graphic Designer Alma Mater: Tennessee, 2014 | Joined GTAA: August 2016 Office: 404-894-0539 | Email: [email protected] ALEX KEATOR ANDREW CLAUSEN Assistant Assistant Communications & Public Relations Communications & Public Relations TYLER WHEELER Graphic Designer 3 2017-18 GEORGIA TECH WOMEN’S TENNIS INFORMATION GUIDE www.RAMBLINWRECK.com 2017-18 ROSTER PLAYERS & STAFF PLAYERS 2018 Yellow Jackets (L-R): Ida Jarlskog, Nami Otsuka, Kenya Jones, Johnnise Renaud, Paige Hourigan, Nadia Gizdova, Victoria Flores Name HT YR Hometown (Last School) Victoria Flores 5-3 Fr. Fort Dodge, Iowa (Kansas Connections Academy) Nadia Gizdova 5-6 So. Columbia, Md. (Laurel Springs) Paige Hourigan 5-6 Sr. Turakina, New Zealand (St. Kentigern College) Ida Jarlskog 5-6 Fr. Lund, Sweden (Bastad) Kenya Jones 5-5 So. Memphis, Tenn. (White Station) Nami Otsuka 5-6 So. Norcross, Ga. (Duluth) Johnnise Renaud 5-7 Sr. North Miami, Fla. (Florida Virtual) Head Coach: Rodney Harmon (SMU, 1983), 6th season at Georgia Tech Assistant Coach: Christy Lynch (Georgia Tech, 2009), 4th season at Georgia Tech 4 2017-18 GEORGIA TECH WOMEN’S TENNIS INFORMATION GUIDE @GT_WTEN STUDENT-ATHLETE PROFILES number two singles spot, going 14-5, and played on court one for four matches, going PAIGE 2-2 … Won a team-high six matches against ranked opponents, including #25 Erin Routliffe from Alabama and #38 Ester Goldfeld from Duke … Clinched five matches HOURIGAN for the Jackets, including a 4-3 upset of #3-seed Duke in the quarterfinals of the ACC Sr. • 5’6” Tournament … Fell in her first round match at the NCAA Singles Championship to the Turakina, New Zealand overall-two seed Carol Zhao of Stanford ... Played alongside Kendal Woodard in doubles, going 16-4 in the spring and recording an 8-1 record in conference play … During St. Kentigern College dual match play, went 16-2 ... The tandem defeated six ranked doubles teams...Doubles team was featured in the ITA rankings every week after debuting on Feb. 24, reaching a Awards season-best ranking of #13 on April 14 … The duo fell to #5 Zsofi Susanyi and Klara 2016-17 ACC Academic Honor Roll Favikova of California in the round of 32 of the NCAA Doubles Championship ... Fall At-Large Bid to 2017 NCAA Doubles Championship -Recorded a 7-3 singles record and went 6-2 in doubles besides Rasheeda McAdoo 2017 All-ACC Second Team during the fall tournament season … Advanced to the main draw singles semifinals at At-Large Bid to 2016 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship the Bulldog Classic, registering three wins at Georgia … Tallied two wins at the USTA/ 2016 All-ACC Third Team ITA Southeast Regionals, advancing to the round of 16 in the singles main draw … & STAFF PLAYERS 2015 All-ACC Second Team Defeated the #16 seed in the main draw at the Southeast Regionals, Clementina At-Large Bid to 2015 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship Riobueno of Miami, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 … Opened up the fall winning five-straight doubles matches with McAdoo … Was named the doubles MVP with McAdoo at the Georgia In the Record Book Tech Yellow Jacket Invitational after going 3-0 on court one … Won two doubles >> 1st -- Season Doubles Winning Percentage (27-4, .871) matches at the Bulldog Classic and during the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional. >> 2nd-- Career Doubles Winning Percentage (77-20, .794) Juniors: Has a career-high ranking of 175 in the International Tennis Federation >> 8th -- Season Doubles Winning Percentage (25-7, .781) rankings, an overall career singles record of 48-29 and career doubles record of >> t-9th -- Career Doubles Wins (77) 45-26 ... During the 2014 season, participated in numerous international tournaments, >> t-13th -- Season Singles Dual Wins (20, 2016-17) including the Melbourne ITF, where she advanced to the round of 16 in singles and the >> 14th -- Season Doubles Winning Percentage (25-9, .735) semifinals in doubles ... Defeated Australia’s Sasha Bollweg, 6-1, 6-3 in the first round and edged Lizette Cabrera, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (5) to make it to the round of 16 ...Alongside 2017 (Junior): Spring - All-ACC Second Team ... Earned NCAA At-Large doubles partner Emma Hayman, won two-straight doubles matches to advance to the bid into doubles championship ... Put together a 20-8 dual singles record and 25-3 semifinals ... The duo defeated Japan’s Xin-Yun Han and Mai Minokoshi, 6-1, 5-7, 10- doubles mark with partner Kenya Jones... Earned NCAA at-large doubles berth with 7, in the round of 16 ... During the quarterfinals, the duo recorded a 6-3, 6-4 victory Hourigan ... Duo upset Florida’s No. 11 Anna Danilina/Ingrid Neel, 6-1, 3-6, 10-6 in the against Leah Daw and Matilda Hamlin ... In the Port Pirie ITF, Glen Iris ITF and Nanning first round to advance to the round of 16 ... Tandem fell in round of 16 to Alabama’s No. (China) ITF tournaments, advanced to the second round in singles play ... At Glen Iris, 5 Maddie Pothoff/Erin Routliffe 7-5, 5-7, 10-6 ... Duo broke into the ITA rankings at Hayman and Hourigan made it to the quarterfinals ...In 2013, won the New Zealand No. 30 on Feb. 21 ... Finished the season ranked No. 17 ... Clinched Tech’s spot in the Junior Championship U18 title in both singles and doubles ... During the 2013 season, NCAA Round of 16 with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Rheeya Doshi of Northwestern ... Posted competed in the ASB Classic, the Junior Australian Championships, Wanganui’s Christie a 10-3 mark in ACC play, competing mainly at the No. 3 position ... Captured her first Cup success, international ITF tournaments in Asia and helped win a national title for her five ACC matches of the season. Fall-Ranked No. 24 in the preseason ... Fell to No. 1 St. Kentigern College team. Hayley Carter of UNC in the Riviera/ITA All-American in California ... Posted a 2-1 record in the ITA Southeast Regionals and partnered with Rasheeda McAdoo in doubles to pick CAREER STATISTICS up a pair of wins. Singles Doubles 2016 (Sophomore): Spring - Had a 19-8 singles record and a 21-5 doubles YEAR Dual Overall Dual Overall record during the spring … Along with partner Kendal Woodard, won 15 doubles 2014-15 16-7 25-12 18-2 25-7 matches in a row and peaked at No.