FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Carol A. Reep Associate Director of Championships 317/917-6222
2009 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 2009 NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis
Championships.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 20-25 at the George P. Mitchell
Tennis Center in College Station, Texas, following the conclusion of the team championship (May 15-
19). Texas A&M University, College Station 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 April 29, 2009 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 (16), listed alphabetically by conference:
Atlantic Coast Julia Cohen Miami (Florida) Big East Kelcy Tefft Notre Dame Big Sky Katrina Zheltova Sacramento State Big Ten Maria Mosolova Northwestern Big 12 Lenka Broosova Baylor Big West Jenifer Widjaja Pacific Colonial Diana Nakic Georgia State C-USA Marta Lesniak SMU Ivy Beier Ko Harvard Mountain West Nina Munch-Soegaard TCU Pacific-10 Hilary Barte Stanford SEC Aurelija Miseviciute Arkansas Southern Laura Gioia Furman Sun Belt Mallory Voelker Denver West Coast Jenni Heinser San Francisco WAC Melanie Gloria Fresno State
At-large selections (48), listed alphabetically by last name:
Nadia Abdala Arizona State Mari Andersson California Josipa Bek Clemson Bojana Bobusic California Marrit Boonstra Florida Kristi Boxx Mississippi Mallory Cecil Duke Venise Chan Washington Fani Chifchieva Auburn Marina Cossou California NCAA NEWS RELEASE April 29, 2009 Page No. 3 ______
Bianca Eichkorn Miami (Florida) Megan Falcon LSU Irina Falconi Georgia Tech Sarah Fansler Southern California Amanda Fink Southern California Kristy Frilling Notre Dame Nadja Gilchrist Georgia Chelsey Gullickson Georgia Alex Haney Auburn Yvette Hyndman Georgia Claire Ilcinkas California Jana Juricova California Michaela Kissell Miami (Florida) Sanaz Marand North Carolina Natasha Marks Arizona Amanda McDowell Georgia Tech Kelcy McKenna Arizona State Ani Mijacika Clemson Samantha Murray Northwestern Ellah Nze Duke Taylor Ormond Baylor Anastasia Petukhova Fresno State Andrea Remynse UCLA Anastasia Revzina Florida Georgia Rose Northwestern Katie Rybakova Florida State Maria Sanchez Southern California Noemi Scharle Florida State Yasmin Schnack UCLA Gira Schofield South Carolina Jelena Stanivuk Baylor Christy Striplin Georgia Tech Katrina Tsang North Carolina Laura Vallverdu Miami (Florida) Caitlin Whoriskey Tennessee Jackie Wu Vanderbilt Reka Zsilinszka Duke Ana Zubori South Carolina
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ALTERNATES: 1. Noelle Hickey Georgia Tech 2. Irene Rehberger South Florida 3. Chisako Sugiyama Michigan 4. Catherine Newman Vanderbilt 5. Sasha Kulikova Wake Forest 6. Kellie Schmitt Marshall
Seeds 1-8:
1. Maria Mosolova Northwestern 2. Julia Cohen Miami (Florida) 3. Aurelija Miseviciute Arkansas 4. Ani Mijacika Clemson 5. Mallory Cecil Duke 6. Fani Chifchieva Auburn 7. Hilary Barte Stanford 8. Chelsey Gullickson Georgia
Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name:
Josipa Bek Clemson Marrit Boonstra Florida Megan Falcon LSU Irina Falconi Georgia Tech Jana Juricova California Kelcy McKenna Arizona State Nina Munch-Soegaard TCU Yasmin Schnack UCLA
DOUBLES
Automatic qualifications (11), listed alphabetically by conference:
Atlantic Coast Sophie Grabinski Sanaz Marand North Carolina Big East Kelcy Tefft Kristy Frilling Notre Dame Big Ten Georgia Rose Lauren Lui Northwestern Big 12 Lenka Broosova Csilla Borsanyi Baylor Colonial Charleen Haarhoff Nadine Fahoum Old Dominion C-USA Marta Lesniak Aleksandra Malyarschikova SMU Ivy Taylor Marable Hilary Bartlett Princeton Mountain West Anna Sydorska Macall Harkins TCU Pacific-10 Andrea Remynse Yasmin Schnack UCLA SEC Chelsey Gullickson Nadja Gilchrist Georgia WAC Renata Kucerkova Anastasia Petukhova Fresno State NCAA NEWS RELEASE April 29, 2009 Page No. 5 ______
At-large selections (21), listed alphabetically by institution:
Kelcy McKenna Micaela Hein Arizona State Nanar Airapetian Anouk Tigu Arkansas Whitney Chappell Alex Haney Auburn Mari Andersson Jana Juricova California Ani Mijacika Keri Wong Clemson Melissa Mang Amanda Granson Duke Jessica Alexander Anastasia Revzina Florida Marrit Boonstra Joanna Mather Florida Tinesta Rowe Melanie Gloria Fresno State Amanda McDowell Irina Falconi Georgia Tech Christy Striplin Noelle Hickey Georgia Tech Carolina Escamilla Caroline Lilley Kentucky Mykala Hedberg Megan Falcon LSU Laura Vallverdu Michaela Kissell Miami (Florida) Karen Nijssen Kristi Boxx Mississippi Katrina Tsang Shinann Featherston North Carolina Keri Robison Maria Mosolova Northwestern Natasa Vuckovic Ana Zubori South Carolina Amanda Fink Gabriela Niculescu Southern California Lindsay Burdette Hilary Barte Stanford Caitlin Whoriskey Natalie Pluskota Tennessee
ALTERNATES:
1. Josipa Bek Ina Hadziselimovic Clemson 2. Claire Ilcinkas Marina Cossou California 3. Carolyn McVeigh Jessica Nguyen Stanford 4. Elna De Villiers Martina Banikova Mississippi State 5. Chisako Sugiyama Tania Mahtani Michigan 6. Heather Steinbauer Jackie Wu Vanderbilt
* Kelcy Tefft Kali Krisik Notre Dame * Yvette Hyndman Chesley Gullickson Georgia * Megan Alexander Marrit Boonstra Florida * Julia Cohen Laura Vallverdu Miami (Florida) * Austin Smith Katrina Tsang North Carolina
* 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. Renata Kucerkova Anastasia Petukhova Fresno State 2. Kelcy Tefft Kristy Frilling Notre Dame 3. Andrea Remynse Yasmin Schnack UCLA 4. Sophie Grabinski Sanaz Marand North Carolina
Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution:
Mari Andersson Jana Juricova California Chelsey Gullickson Nadja Gilchrist Georgia Amanda Fink Gabriela Niculescu Southern California Lindsay Burdette Hilary Barte Stanford
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