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For Immediate Release: // Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Contacts // Heather Ward ([email protected])

2018 PAC-12 STANDINGS MEN’S STANDINGS WOMEN’S STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL W L PCT W L PCT W L PCT W L PCT 1. UCLA * 8 0 1.00 23 2 .920 1. Stanford* 9 0 1.000 15 3 .833 2. Stanford 7 1 .875 20 2 .909 2. UCLA 9 1 .900 18 4 .818 3. USC 6 2 .750 15 7 .681 3. Arizona State 7 3 .700 15 6 .714 4. Oregon 4 4 .500 16 8 .666 4. California 6 4 .600 11 8 .579 5. Arizona State 3 4 .428 14 9 .609 5. Washington State 5 5 .500 20 6 .769 6. California 3 4 .428 11 8 .579 6. Oregon 5 5 .500 14 8 .636 7. Utah 2 6 .250 19 8 .704 7. Washington 5 5 .500 15 10 .600 8. Washington 2 6 .250 12 12 .500 8. USC 5 5 .500 12 9 .571 9. Arizona 0 8 .000 15 14 .789 8. Colorado 2 7 .200 9 11 .450 10. Utah 1 9 .100 10 13 .435 11. Arizona 0 10 .000 9 15 .375

* Pac-12 Regular Season Champion / Standings do not reflect seeding

2018 PAC-12 CONFERENCE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS WHO: The Pac-12’s nine men’s teams and 11 women’s teams head to Ojai, Calif., Wednesday, April 25 - Saturday, April 28 to decide the Pac-12 men’s and women’s tennis team champions. Both the women and men will compete in a tournament team format to determine the Pac-12 Champion and the automatic qualifier for the NCAA Championships. Teams will be seeded based on won-lost percentages during regular-season Conference play with the tie breaker being the head-to-head matchup winner.

WHAT: Pac-12 competition will be held in conjunction with the 118th Annual Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. Live TV coverage of the event begins Friday, April 27 with the men’s semifinals at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. PT on both Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Los Angeles. On Saturday, the women’s final will air live starting at 12 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Los Angeles, followed by the men’s final at 3 p.m. PT on Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Los Angeles. The full men’s and women’s brackets are available on Pgs. 5 & 6.”

WHERE: The Pac-12 Men’s Championship will be held at Libbey Park in Ojai for all rounds, while the Pac-12 women will play the first two rounds plus the semi- finals at the Ojai Valley Athletic Club and Weil Tennis Academy, with the championship match taking place at Libbey Park.

COVERAGE: Full coverage of the 2018 Pac-12 Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships and live results can be found at http://pac-12.com/tennischamps. PAC-12 TENNIS PAC-12 TENNIS INFORMATION CONTINUED SID DIRECTORY OJAI HISTORY: The Pac-12 Championships will keep with tradition ARIZONA as the featured event at this year’s 118th Ojai Valley Tennis Tourna- ment, which attracts 1,600 of the best college, junior and open play- Men’s SID...... Jake Marchi. ers from the Western states. The annual event, started by William [email protected] Thacher in 1896, has been played at the same site and interrupted Women’s SID...... Katie Vick only five times. If this tournament, put on entirely by volunteer efforts [email protected] on public and privately owned courts, seems an unlikely place to Office...... (520) 621-4163 see championship quality players, consider who has appeared here: , , Michael Chang, , ARIZONA STATE , , , and the Men’s SID...... Doug Tammaro. Bryan twins. These tennis greats are among more than 91 former players at The Ojai who have gone on to win one [email protected] or more events as professional tennis players, all of whom are listed on Libbey Park’s “Wall of Fame.” Women’s SID...... Elias Williams [email protected] CHAMPIONSHIP LOCATIONS: Ojai Valley Athletic Club is located at 409 Fox Street, Ojai, CA 93023, Weil Tennis Office...... (480) 965-4987 Academy is located at 428 Bryant Cir, Ojai, CA and Libbey Park is located at the intersection of Signal and Main in the center of town. More information about the Ojai Tournament can be found at www.ojaitourney.org/tournament- CALIFORNIA info. Men’s/Women’s SID...... Dean Caparaz [email protected] TICKET PRICES: Cash and will be credit cards accepted and fans can buy five-Day, weekend and single day Office...... (510) 643-2938 passes online at http://www.ojaitourney.org/tournament-info/tickets/buy-tickets-online/.

COLORADO Five-Day Pass: Weekend Pass: Single Day: Student: Women’s SID...... Andy Schlichting General: $50 General: $35 Weekend: $20 Weekend: $10 [email protected] Weekday: $15 Weekday: $5 Office...... (303)-492-2320

OREGON Men’s/Women’s SID...... Nathan Bryant [email protected] Office...... (541)-346-5532 PAC-12 MEN’S COACHES STANFORD Men’s SID...... Doug Drabik Arizona...... Clancy Shields UCLA...... [email protected] ...... 2nd season ...... 25th season Women’s SID...... Brian Risso [email protected] Arizona State...... Matt Hill USC...... Peter Smith Office...... (650) 736-9044 ...... 2nd season ...... 16th season

California...... Peter Wright Utah...... Roeland Brateanu UCLA ...... 25th season ...... 4th season Men’s/Women’s SID...... Andrew Sinatra [email protected] Oregon...... Nils Schyllander Washington...... Matt Anger Office...... (310) 206-6831 ...... 9th season ...... 23rd season

USC Stanford...... Men’s SID...... Darcy Couch ...... 4th season. [email protected] Women’s SID...... Kaite Ryan [email protected] PAC-12 WOMEN’S COACHES Office...... (213) 740-3808 Arizona...... Vicky Maes UCLA...... Stella Sampras Webster UTAH ...... 17th season ...... 22nd season Men’s SID...... Drew Wiseman [email protected] Arizona State...... Sheila McInerney USC...... Alison Swain Women’s SID...... Jordie Lindley ...... 32nd season ...... 1st season [email protected] Office...... (801) 581-3771 California...... Amanda Augustus Utah...... Mat Iondolo ...... 11th season ...... 10th season WASHINGTON Colorado...... Nicole Kenneally Washington...... Robin Stephenson Men’s/Women’s SID...... Kimber Haner ...... 19th season ...... 4th season [email protected] Office...... (206) 543-2331 Oregon...... Alison Silverio Washington State...... Lisa Hart ...... 4th season ...... 12th season WASHINGTON STATE Women’s SID: ...... Bill Stevens Stanford...... Lele Forood [email protected] ...... 16th season. Office: ...... (509) 335-4294 ITA RANKINGS PAC-12 MEN IN THE RANKINGS

MEN’S TENNIS 17 Pac-12 singles players are ranked in the ITA Top-125 national men’s singles rankings (as of April 24). Eigth (as of April 24) Conference teams are represented by ranked individuals, led by Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Marin Redlicki of 1 Wake Forest UCLA tops the country at No. 1. He’s joined in the top 25 by Stanford’s Tom Fawcett at No. 9, USC’s Brandon Holt at 2 UCLA No. 11, ASU’s Michael Geerts at No. 20 and Oregon’s Michael Geerts at No. 22. 3 Ohio State 4 Stanford Ten Pac-12 men’s doubles teams are in the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with a ranked pair representing six 5 Texas A&M different schools. USC’s Jack Jaede/Laurens Verboven are ranked second and is the Conference’s highest-ranked pair. 6 North Carolina 7 TCU 8 Illinois MEN’S SINGLES TOP 125 MEN’S DOUBLES TOP 90 1. , UCLA 7. Jack Jaede/Laurens Verboven, USC 9 Mississippi State 9. Tom Fawcett, STAN 9. Brandon Holt/Riley Smith, USC 10 Florida 11. Brandon Holt, USC 14. Austin Rapp/Keegan Smith, UCLA 11 Florida State 20. Michael Geerts, ASU 24. Tom Fawcett/Axel Geller, STAN 12 USC 22. Michael Geerts, ORE 32. Billy Griffith/J.T. Nishimura, CAL 13 Michigan 52. Keegan Smith, UCLA 37. Sameer Kumar/Michael Genender, STAN 14 Oklahoma 54. Billy Griffith, CAL 45. Cormac Clissold/Thomas Laurent, ORE 15 Texas 65. Jake Douglas, WASH 48. Andrea Bolla/Makey Rakotomalala, ASU 16 Columbia 74. Axel Geller, STAN 73. Martin Redlicki/,UCLA 17 Oklahoma State 78. Mitch Stewart, WASH 88. Michael Geerts/Tim Ruehl, ASU 18 Georgia 80. Evan Zhu, UCLA 82. Daniel Cukierman, USC 19 Vanderbilt 84. Benjamin Hannestad, ASU 20 Memphis 86. Logan Staggs, UCLA 21 Tennessee 92. Sameer Kumar, STAN 22 North Carolina State 98. Dan Little, UTAH 23 Tulane 118. Logan Smith, USC 24 Notre Dame 25 Kentucky 32 California PAC-12 WOMEN IN THE RANKINGS 35 Oregon 36 Arizona State The Pac-12 women occupy 23 slots on the ITA’s Top-125 singles rankings through April 24. Nine Conference teams are 38 Utah represented by ranked individuals, with UCLA receiving the highest ranking at No. 14.

WOMEN’S TENNIS In doubles, nine Pac-12 women’s programs are represented as 4 duos hold spots in the ITA Top-25 national doubles (as of April 24) rankings. Stanford’s paring of Emily Arbuthnott and Michaela Gordon is the highest-ranked doubles team in the Con- 1 Vanderbilt ference at No. 2 2 North Carolina 3 Duke WOMEN’S SINGLES TOP 125 WOMEN’S DOUBLES TOP 90 14. Ena Shibahara, UCLA 2. Emily Arbuthnott/Michaela Gordon, STAN 4 Georgia Tech 15. Stacey Fung, WASH 6. /Terri Fleming,UCLA 5 Ole Miss 16. Michaela Gordon, STAN 15. Lauryn John-Baptiste/Ilze Hattingh, ASU 6 Texas 26. Michaela Bayerlova, WSU 25. Jada Hart/Ena Shibahara, UCLA 7 Oklahoma State 30. Jada Hart, UCLA 28. Miki Kobayashi/Vanessa Wong, WASH 8 Georgia 38. Julia Rosenqvist, CAL 34. Alyssa Tobita/Shweta Sangwan, ORE 9 Florida 40. Gabby Smith, USC 38. Gabby Andrews/Jada Hart, UCLA 10 South Carolina 42. Anna Bright, CAL 48. Angela Kulikov/Rianna Valdes, USC 11 Pepperdine 43. Alyssa Tobita, ORE 50. Olivia Hauger/Julia Rosenqvist, CAL 12 Northwestern 47. Olivia Hauger, CAL 56. Gabby Andrews/Ayan Broomfield, UCLA 13 UCLA 50. Vanessa Wong, WASH 59. Savannah Slaysman/Tereza Kolarova, ASU 14 Texas Tech 51. Emily Arbuthnott, STAN 68. Kelley Anderson/Nicole Fossa Huergo, ASU 59. Abi Altick, UCLA 69. Julia Eshet/Shweta Sangwan, ORE 15 Miami 61. Lauryn John-Baptiste, ASU 71. Alexia Petrovic/Jena Cheng, UTAH 16 Stanford 68. Melissa Lord, STAN 78. Kimberly Yee/Caroline Lampl, STAN 17 Florida State 84. Karla Popovic, CAL 84. Guzal Yusupova/Tiffany Mylonas, WSU 18 Kansas 90. Rianna Valdes, USC 88. Alyssa Tobita/Rifanty Kahfiani, ORE 19 Illinois 94. Caroline Lampl, STAN 20 Virginia 95. Janice Shin, STAN 21 Auburn 109. Emma Higuchi, STAN 22 UCF 110. Kelley Anderson, ASU 23 Michigan 117. Alaina Miller, UCLA 24 Tulsa 122. Alexia Petrovic, UTAH 25 Kentucky 30 Oregon 35 Arizona State 43 Washington 45 California 48 Washington State 49 USC 2018 PAC-12 TENNIS PAC-12 SINGLES PAC-12 DOUBLES PLAYERS OF THE WEEK CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS MEN MEN MEN 1987 Patrick McEnroe, STAN 1987 Brian Garrow/Pat Galbraith, UCLA Jan. 23 Thomas Laurent, Oregon 1988 Brian Garrow, UCLA 1988 /Eric Amend, USC Jan. 30 Evan Zhu, UCLA 1989 Pat Galbraith, UCLA 1989 Mark Quinney/Billy Barber, UCLA Feb. 6 Tom Fawcett, Stanford 1990 Jason Netter, UCLA 1990 Alex O’Brien/Jason Yee, STAN Feb. 13 Tom Fawcett, Stanford 1991 Alex O’Brien, STAN 1991 /, STAN Feb. 20 Keegan Smith, UCLA 1992 Alex O’Brien, STAN 1992 Chris Cocotos/Alex O’Brien, STAN Feb. 27 Michaël Geerts, Arizona State 1993 Fritz Bissell, UCLA 1993 David Ekerot/Andras Lanyi, USC March 6 Maxime Cressy, UCLA 1994 , USC 1994 Wayne Black/Jon Leach, USC March 13 Eric Fomba, Stanford 1995 , STAN 1995 Brett Hansen/Fernando Samayoa, USC March 20 Michaël Geerts, Arizona State 1996 Adam Peterson, USC 1996 Paul Goldstein/, STAN March 27 Mitch Stewart, Washington 1997 , STAN 1997 Paul Goldstein/Ryan Wolters, STAN April 3 Evan Zhu, UCLA 1998 Paul Goldstein, STAN 1998 Bob Bryan/, STAN April 10 Maxime Cressy, UCLA 1999 Ryan Wolters, STAN 1999 Jean-Noel Grinda/Jong- Min Lee, UCLA April 17 Maxime Cressy, UCLA 2000 Geoff Abrams, STAN 2000 Brandon Kramer/Jong-Min Lee, UCLA April 24 David Wilczynski, Stanford 2001 Ryan Moore, USC 2001 K.J. Hippensteel/Alex Kim, STAN 2002 Rodrigo Grilli, UCLA 2002 /Jean-Julien Rojer, UCLA 2003 Marcin Matkowski, UCLA 2003 Parker Collins/Daniel Langre, USC WOMEN 2004 Sam Warburg, STAN 2004 Phillip Gruendler/Luben Pampoulov, UCLA Jan. 23 Michaela Bayerlova, Washington State 2005 Sam Warburg, STAN 2005 KC Corkery/Sam Warburg, STAN Jan. 30 Stacey Fung, Washington 2006 Matt Bruch, STAN 2006 Mathieu Dehaine/Jeremy Drean, UCLA Feb. 6 Talya Zandberg, Arizona 2007 Matt Bruch, STAN 2007 Matt Bruch/Blake Muller, STAN Feb. 13 Jada Hart, UCLA 2008 Kaes Van’t Hof, USC 2008 /Kaes Van’t Hof, USC Feb. 20 Taylor Calton, Utah 2009 Bradley Klahn, STAN 2009 Bradley Klahn/Ryan Thacher, STAN Feb. 27 Michaela Bayerlova, Washington State 2010 Robert Farah, USC 2010 Robert Farah/, USC March 6 Lauryn John-Baptiste, Arizona State 2011 Steve Johnson, USC 2011 Steve Johnson/Ray Sarmiento, USC March 13 Julia Rosenqvist, California March 20 Lauryn John-Baptiste, Arizona State WOMEN WOMEN March 27 Ena Shibahara, UCLA 1987 Jane Thomas, UCLA 1987 Lupita Novelo/Ginny Purdy, USC April 3 Michaela Gordon, Stanford 1988 Lisa Green, STAN 1988 Alissa Finerman/Tifany Silveria, CAL April 10 Olivia Hauger, California 1989 Sandra Birch, STAN 1989 Mamie Ceniza/Stella Sampras, UCLA April 17 Alyssa Tobita, Oregon 1990 Debra Graham, STAN 1990 Meredith McGrath/Teri Whitlinger, STAN April 24 Jada Hart, UCLA 1991 Sandra Birch, STAN 1991 /Stella Sampras, UCLA 1992 Alix Creek, ARIZ 1992 Alix Creek/Danielle Scott, ARIZ 1993 Alix Creek, ARIZ 1993 Keirsten Alley/Pam Nelson, CAL 1994 Sandra DeSilva, STAN 1994 Keirsten Alley/Pam Nelson, CAL 1995 Keri Phebus, UCLA 1995 Ania Bleszynski/Katie Schlukebir, STAN 1996 Julie Scott, STAN 1996 Keri Phebus/Paige Yaroshuk, UCLA 1997 Julie Scott, STAN 1997 Amanda Augustus/Claire Curran, CAL 1998 Annica Cooper, UCLA 1998 Ania Bleszynski/Julie Scott, STAN 1999 Mariss Irvin, STAN 1999 Teryn Ashley/, STAN 2000 Sara Walker, UCLA 2000 Lindsay Blau/Michelle Gough, ARIZ 2001 Adria Engle, ASU 2001 Mariko Fritz-Krockow/Sara Walker, UCLA 2002 Gabriela Lastra, STAN 2002 Christina Fusano/Raquel Kops-Jones, CAL 2003 Daria Panova, ORE 2003 Christina Fusano/Raquel Kops-Jones, CAL 2004 Raquel Kops-Jones, CAL 2004 Alice Barnes/Erin Burdette, STAN 2005 Nicole Leimbach, USC 2005 Alice Barnes/Anne Yelsey, STAN 2006 Zsuzsanna Fodor, CAL 2006 Alice Barnes/Anne Yelsey, STAN 2007 Lindsey Nelson, USC 2007 Riza Zalameda/Yasmin Schnack, UCLA 2008 Riza Zalameda, UCLA 2008 Amanda Fink/Gabriela Niculescu, USC 2009 Amanda Fink, USC 2009 Amanda Fink/Gabriela Niculescu, USC 2010 Yasmin Schnack, UCLA 2010 Yasmin Schnack/Andrea Remynse, UCLA 2011 Kristie Ahn, STAN 2011 Mari Andersson/Jana Juricova, CAL 2012 Nicole Gibbs, STAN 2012 Kaitlyn Christian/Sabrina Santamaria, USC 2013 Kyle McPhillips, UCLA 2013 Kaitlyn Christian/Sabrina Santamaria, USC 2014 Jennifer Brady, UCLA 2014 Kaitlyn Christian/Giuliana Olmos, USC 2015 Catherine Harrison, UCLA 2015 Carol Zhao/Taylor Davidson, STAN 2016 Maegan Manasse, CAL 2016 Alexandra Osborne/Ebony Panoho, ASU

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