KRISTEN RAFAEL Captain Senior • KRISTY FRILLING Junior • All-BIG EAST BIG EAST Player of the Year • ITA All-American (Singles/Doubles) SHANNON MATHEWS • All-BIG EAST Junior 2010-11 Women’s Tennisund.com Athletics by the numbers National Championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, two in 25 women’s soccer, two in men’s tennis, one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball) Conference championships won by 8 Irish teams in 2009-10 (BIG EAST, Midwest Fencing Conference) BIG EAST Conference championships 107 won by Notre Dame in 15 seasons of league play All-time Academic All-Americans, 216 second most of any school, including six in 2009-10 Academic All-America honorees since 90 2000; no school has more Irish programs which finished their 9 2009-10 campaign ranked Notre Dame teams (out of 22) with a 19 graduation rate of 100% Irish athletic teams that earned a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s 8 Academic Progress Rate report in 2009-10, second-most in the Football Bowl Subdivision Programs honored by the NCAA for 14 Academic Progress Rate scores in 2009 Irish athletes who received the BIG 3 EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award in 2009-10 Hours of community service complet- 5,631.25 ed by Notre Dame student-athletes during the 2009-10 school year TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS IS NOTRE DAME 2010-11 OPPONENTS/FALL RESULTS Academic Excellence .................................................................... 2-3 On the Road with the Irish ................................................................50 Sports Medicine/Strenght & Conditioning ................................ 4-5 2010 Tournaments .............................................................................51 University of Notre Dame ............................................................ 6-7 2011 Opponents ..........................................................................52-55 University Leadership ................................................................... 8-9 Series vs. 2011 Opponents ......................................................... 56-57 Athletic Facilities ....................................................................... 10-11 All-Time Series ....................................................................................58 Excellence On the Field .................................................................. 12 Excellence Off the Field .................................................................. 13 Student Welfare and Development .............................................. 14 TENNIS TRADITION Monogram Club ............................................................................. 15 Tennis Tradition ............................................................................ 60-62 City of South Bend.......................................................................... 16 Media Information/Quick Facts ..................................................... 18 HISTORY & RECORDS SEASON PREVIEW All-Time Results ..................................................................................64 Individual Rankings ............................................................................65 Season Preview ............................................................................20-21 Irish All-Americans .............................................................................66 2010-11 Roster ...................................................................................22 Career Records.....................................................................................67 Irish Records .................................................................................68-69 Honors and Awards ............................................................................70 STUDENT-ATHLETES Irish Honors .........................................................................................71 Kristen Rafael ................................................................................24-25 NCAA Team Championships ....................................................... 72-74 Kristy Frilling .................................................................................26-27 NCAA Singles Championships ..........................................................75 Shannon Mathews .......................................................................28-29 NCAA Doubles Championships .........................................................76 Chrissie McGaffi gan ........................................................................... 30 Collegiate Grand Slam History ..........................................................77 Jennifer Kellner/JoHanna Manningham ..........................................31 BIG EAST Conference Results ......................................................78-79 Julie Sabacinski/Britney Sanders ...................................................... 32 Courtney Tennis Center .......................................................................80 Eck Tennis Pavilion ..............................................................................81 All-Time Roster ............................................................................ 82-84 Media Information COACHING STAFF Year-By-Year Results ................................................................... 85-90 BIG EAST Conference ..........................................................................91 The Notre Dame Athletic Media Relations Offi ce always Jay Louderback ............................................................................ 34-36 is interested in assisting members of the media in their Julia Scaringe ......................................................................................37 coverage of Irish tennis. Publicity and media information Support Staff .......................................................................................38 for Notre Dame women’s tennis is coordinated by media relations assistant Brent Henningfeld. For information and 2009-10 SEASON IN REVIEW interviews, call Henningfeld at (574) 631-1762 or view the offi cial website of the Notre Dame athletic department 2009-10 Results .................................................................................40 at ww.und.com 2009-10 Statistics...............................................................................41 Match-By-Match ......................................................................... 42-43 Graduated Seniors ....................................................................... 44-48 BIG EAST Web Information The BIG EAST Conference maintains its presence on the World Wide Web at www.bigeast.org. The site contains current information on all facets of the BIG EAST Conference. Please contact Katie Parker in the BIG EAST media relations department ([email protected]) for more information on BIG EAST tennis. Credits The Notre Dame Women’s Tennis Guide was written and edited by media relations assistant Brent Henningfeld, with editorial assistance from Rose Kavanagh, Aaron Horvath, Caitlin Desmond, Kevin Paczesny and Nick Bucholtz. Graphic design, page layout and outside cover designs by Manny Vila of Ave Maria Press, Inc. Inside cover designs by Dave Scholtes of Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. Photography by Mike Bennett and Lighthouse Imaging, Matt Cashore, Heather Gollatz, Greg Owen, J.C. Ridley, Don Alschuler, Guy Rogers, L.K. Dunn, Kevin Burke and Notre Dame photographics, Pete LaFleur, Angela Addington, David Silverman, Fred Mullane, and Kaitlyn Kiely. Printing by Ave Maria Press in Notre Dame, Ind. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME • UND.COM 1 ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Exceptional Education Since its founding, Notre Dame has stressed mixing academics with faith and has done so while becoming one of the top institutions of higher learning in the nation. Featuring fi ve undergraduate colleges (Arts and Letters, Science, Architecture, Engineering and Business), the First Year of Studies, the Graduate School and the Law School, the University fi nds itself attracting some of the top students and faculty in the country. Students also participate in cutting edge research and diverse study abroad opportunities, enabling Notre Dame to off er one of the top academic experiences in the world. Ranking of the Mendoza College of Business by BusinessWeek, in its annual survey of undergrad- 1 uate business programs. Ranking of the Notre Dame Law School by U.S. 22 News and World Report. National Endowment for the Humanities fellow- ships won by faculty in the College of Arts and 42 Letters, more than any other university in the na- tion. Publications in which the University of Notre Dame is ranked among the top 25 institutions of higher learning (U.S. News and World Report, 5 Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger’s and Kaplan/ Newsweek). 2 UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME • UND.COM First Year of Studies The First Year of Studies program provides all fi rst-year students with the opportunity to gain a wide-ranging liberal arts background before choosing a specifi c major within Notre Dame’s fi ve undergraduate col- leges. A progressive advising program for all student-athletes enables the University to follow the academic progress of all student-athletes on a regular basis. Key to the program is the fact that it is not run by the athletics department but by the University administration. Student-Athlete Success Notre Dame expects the best out of its student-athletes just as it does of every other student on campus. Notre Dame has had unprec- edented academic success among its athletes,