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GOLDEN BEARS 2009 WOMEN’S TENNIS For release: April 22, 2009 76 All-America Selections • 4 NCAA Doubles Champions • 1 NCAA Singles Champion • 3 All-American Singles Champions • 2008 NCAA Finalist University of California Athletic Media Relations Offi ce • 349 Haas Pavilion • Berkeley, Calif. 94720 • (510) 642-5363 • Fax: (510) 643-7778 Asst. Director (Tennis Contact): Jeremy Wu • Offi ce: (510) 643-2938 • Cell: (510) 334-6409 • E-mail: [email protected] No. 8 Golden Bears Face Strong Field at Pac-10 Championships 2009 SCHEDULE AND RESULTS THIS WEEK: 17-4 Overall | 7-1 Pac-10 | Campbell’s/ITA: No. 8 Jan. 16-18 Cal Winter Invitational All Day OJAI VALLEY TENNIS CLUB & LIBBEY PARK | OJAI, CALIF. Jan. 31 No. 48 Long Beach State @ 7-0 W Pac-10 Championships Feb. 1 No. 37 Washington @ 5-2 W Thursday, April 23-Sunday, April 26 ........ All Day Feb. 6 at San Diego State 6-1 W Feb. 13 vs. No. 12 Clemson # 4-3 W Feb. 14 vs. No. 7 Georgia Tech # 5-2 W P EXT Feb. 15 vs. No. 6 Georgia # 4-2 L U N : Feb. 27 No. 38 Washington * 5-2 W Feb. 28 No. 58 Washington State * 7-0 W HAAS PAVILION | BERKELEY, CALIF. Mar. 6 No. 42 Sacramento State 7-0 W Mar. 7 at No. 13 Stanford 4-3 L NCAA Selection Show Mar. 10 No. 5 Baylor 4-3 W Tuesday, April 28 ............... approx. 2:20 p.m. PT Mar. 15 at No. 14 Arizona State 5-2 W ESPNews Mar. 19 No. 42 Denver 5-2 W Mar. 21 No. 18 Fresno State 4-3 L Mar. 27 at No. 10 USC * 4-3 L Mar. 28 at No. 9 UCLA * 6-1 W Check www.CalBears.com for updates and Information Apr. 3 No. 21 Arizona State * 5-2 W Apr. 4 No. 59 Arizona * 7-0 W Apr. 11 No. 56 Oregon * 7-0 W THIS WEEK: The No. 8-ranked California women’s tennis team (17-4, 7-1 Pac-10, second Apr. 12 No. 45 Pepperdine 7-0 W place) will join the Pacifi c-10 conference’s other eight teams as it heads to Ojai, Calif. this Apr. 18 No. 12 Stanford * 4-3 W weekend for the Pac-10 Tennis Championships at the Ojai Valley Tennis Club and Libbey Apr. 23-26 Pac-10 Championships & All Day Park. The four-day tournament (Thursday, April 23 through Sunday, April 26) will decide May 15-25 NCAA Championships All Day the league’s men’s and women’s singles and doubles champions. The 32-player singles draw consists of three student-athletes from each school and fi ve wild card players to Note: All times Pacifi c be selected at the discretion of the draw committee. The 16-team doubles draw consists Home matches in bold at Hellman Tennis Complex of one doubles team from each school and seven wild card teams selected by the * Pac-10 match | @ ITA Kick-Off Weekend, Berkeley, committee. The Pac-10 Championships will be held in conjunction with the 109th Annual Calif. | # ITA National Team Indoor Championships, Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament with matches beginning at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 23. Madison, Wis. | & Ojai, Calif. Two rounds of singles will be played on the fi rst day while one round of singles and two rounds of doubles will be played on the second day. Thursday and Friday matches will be held at the Ojai Valley Tennis Club with Saturday and Sunday matches moving to For up-to-date information on all Libbey Park. The singles championship match will be held at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 26 Golden Bear sports, visit with the doubles championships to be held at 2 p.m. WHO’S WHO?: Pac-10 women occupy 23 spots on the ITA’s Top-125 singles rankings list through April 21. Of the Top-30 players in the nation, nine hail from the Pac-10. Seven Conference teams are represented by ranked individuals, with sophomore Hilary Barte of Stanford topping that list at No. 5. 2009 PAC-10 ARIZONA: No. 65 Danielle Steinberg, Sr. WOMEN’S TENNIS STANDINGS ARIZONA STATE: No. 8 Kelcy McKenna, So.; No. 40 Nadia Abdala, Jr.; No. 103 Micaela Hein, So. CALIFORNIA: No. 10 Jana Juricova, Fr.; No. 28 Marina Cossou, So.; No. 30 Bojana Bobusic, Sr.; Pac-10 Pct. Overall Pct. ITA No. 35 Mari Andersson, So.; No. 54 Claire Ilcinkas, Sr. USC * (Pac-10 Champion) 8-0 1.000 20-2 .909 No. 7 STANFORD: No. 5 Hilary Barte, So.; No. 75 Lindsay Burdette, Jr.; No. 84 Jessica Nguyen, Sr.; No. California 7-1 .875 17-4 .810 No. 8 99 Carolyn McVeigh, So. Stanford 6-2 .750 17-4 .810 No. 13 UCLA: No. 14 Yasmin Schnack, Jr.; No. 56 Andrea Remynse, So.; No. 104 Maya Johansson, So. UCLA 5-3 .625 17-6 .739 No. 11 USC: No. 21 Maria Sanchez, So.; No. 27 Amanda Fink, Sr.; No. 38 Sarah Fansler, Jr.; No. 68 Alison Arizona State 4-4 .500 11-8 .579 No. 27 Ramos, Fr.; No. 78 Gabriela Niculescu, Jr. Washington 3-5 .375 16-7 .696 No. 31 WASHINGTON: No. 18 Venise Chan, So.; No. 76 Denise Dy, Fr. Arizona 1-7 .125 11-10 .524 No. 71 Oregon 1-7 .125 9-13 .409 No. 65 Washington State 1-7 .125 8-17 .320 -- as of Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Pac-10 Contacts: (925) 932-4411 / (925) 932-4601 Fax David Hirsch ([email protected]) Gina Verlengiere ([email protected]) CAMPBELL’S/ITA COLLEGE TENNIS POLL 2009 CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S TENNIS ROSTER NCAA Division I Women’s Team Rankings as of April 21, 2009 Name Ht. Yr. Exp. Hometown (Previous School) www.itatennis.com Mari Andersson 5-5 So. HS Båstad, Sweden (Båstad Gymnasium) Bojana Bobusic 5-6 Sr. 3V Perth, Australia (Applecross Senior HS) Rk School Avg Last Stephany Chang 5-9 Fr. HS San Jose, Calif. (Laurel Springs HS) 1 Northwestern University 84.38 1 Marina Cossou 5-9 So. 1V Azereix, France (Institution Jeanne d’Arc- Tarbes) 2 Duke University 75.55 3 Claire Ilcinkas 5-8 Sr. 3V Paris, France (Lycée La Fontaine) 3 Univ. of Georgia 74.93 2 Jana Juricova 6-0 Fr. HS Piestany, Slovak Republic (Gymnazium Pierra de Coubertina) 4 Univ. of Notre Dame 69.25 4 Marion Ravelojaona 5-4 Sr. 3V Paris, France (Lycée La Fontaine) 5 Baylor University 69.05 5 Catalina Visico 5-4 Fr. HS Long Beach, Calif. (Woodrow Wilson HS) 6 Univ. of Miami (Florida) 68.26 6 7 Univ. of Southern California 63.28 9 Head Coach: Amanda Augustus, second year 8 California 63.03 8 Assistant Coach: Zsuzsanna Fodor, fi rst year 9 Georgia Tech 61.79 7 Volunteer Asst. Coach: Cordell Ho, 12th year 10 University of Tennessee 52.86 13 Team Manager: Jennifer Lau, fi rst year 11 UCLA 52.14 10 12 Clemson University 51.00 11 PRONUNCIATION GUIDE 13 Stanford 50.48 12 14 Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville 47.99 14 Mari Andersson ...................................... muh-REE Jana Juricova ............ YAH-nuh yer-REE-co-VUH 15 University of Florida 43.50 16 Bojana Bobusic .......... boy-AH-nuh buh-BOU-sic Marion Ravelojaona ....... ruh-VELL-oh-JAO-nuh 16 Fresno State 43.23 15 Marina Cossou .................... muh-REE-nuh co-SU Catalina Visico .................................. VIH-sick-oh 17 Florida State University 41.96 17 Claire Ilcinkas ..................................... ill-SINK-uhh Zsuzsanna Fodor ........... zhoo-ZHA-nah FOH-dor 18 University of Michigan 41.66 18 19 Vanderbilt University 41.39 19 20 North Carolina 39.11 21 In doubles, Pac-10 women’s teams hold 21 spots in the ITA Top-90 national doubles rankings, with 21 SMU 34.53 23 eight schools represented. The UCLA tandem of Andrea Remynse and Yasmin Schnack are the 22 University of South Carolina 34.07 20 highest-ranked doubles team in the Conference, landing at No. 3. 23 Louisiana State University 33.60 22 24 University of Alabama 30.66 26 ARIZONA: No. 67 Danielle Steinberg, Sr./Sarah Landsman, Fr.; No. 88 Claire Riestch, Jr./Natasha Marks, Fr. 25 Univ. of Kentucky 30.19 24 ARIZONA STATE: No. 16 Kelcy McKenna, So./Micaela Hein, So.; No. 50 Laila Abdala, Sr./Nadia Abdala, Jr. 26 Univ. of Mississippi 29.82 25 CALIFORNIA: No. 5 Mari Andersson, So./Jana Juricova, Fr.; No. 26 Claire Ilcinkas, Sr./Marina Cossou, So.; No. 27 Arizona State University 26.82 29 49 Bojana Bobusic, Sr./Jana Juricova, Fr.; No. 87 Bojana Bobusic, Sr./Claire Ilcinkas, Sr. 28 University of Virginia 26.61 27 OREGON: No. 72 Ana Cecilia Olivos, Sr./Pavlina Smatova, So. 29 TCU 26.20 28 STANFORD: No. 6 Lindsay Burdette, Jr./Hilary Barte, So.; No. 47 Carolyn McVeigh, So./Jessica Nguyen, Sr. 30 Florida International University 24.30 37 UCLA: No. 3 Andrea Remynse, So./Yasmin Schnack, Jr.; No. 44 Ashley Joelson, Sr./Yasmin Schnack, Jr.; No. 65 31 University of Washington 23.74 30 Nina Pantic, Fr./Yasmin Schnack, Jr.; No. 66 Stephanie Wetmore, Jr./Carling Seguso, Fr. 32 Univ. of Texas at Austin 22.16 32 USC: No. 9 Amanda Fink, Sr./Gabriela Niculescu, Jr.; No. 32 Gabriela Niculescu, Jr./Maria Sanchez, So.; No. 33 Auburn University 21.41 31 56 Sarah Fansler, Jr./Lyndsay Kinstler, So.; No. 80 Maria Sanchez, So./Alison Ramos, Fr. 34 University of Illinois 21.16 33 WASHINGTON: No. 42 Denise Dy, Fr./Joyce Ardies, Jr.; No. 83 Venise Chan, So./Denise Dy, Fr. 35 Texas A&M University 19.60 35 36 Boise State University 19.08 36 OJAI HISTORY: The Pac-10 Championships will again be the featured event at this year’s 109th Ojai 37 University of Denver 18.79 34 Valley Tennis Tournament.