HUSKERS.COM @HUSKERSWTENNIS #HUSKERS 1 WELCOME TO NEBRASKA WOMEN’S TENNIS 2017 Season Preview ........................ 1-4 2017 Outlook ................................................. 2 2017 Roster ................................................... 3 2017 Schedule ............................................... 3 2017 Opponent Information ......................... 4 Coaches and Support Staff ................ 5-8 Head Coach Scott Jacobson ................................5 Associate Head Coach German Dalmagro .........6 Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst ..................7 Executive Associate A.D. Steve Waterfield .........8 Executive Associate A.D./SWA Pat Logsdon .......8 Women’s Tennis Support Staff ............................8 2017 Huskers ...................................9-20 Lisa Andersson ............................................... 9 Mary Hanna ................................................. 10 Katerina Matysova ....................................... 11 Paula Del Cueto Castillo ............................... 12 Elizabeth Gould ........................................... 13 Sydney Harlow ............................................. 14 Vasanti Shinde ............................................. 15 M’Balia Bangoura ........................................ 16 Hayley Haakenstad ...................................... 17 Jeannie Lozowski ......................................... 18 Claire Reifeis ................................................ 19 Emma Worley .............................................. 20 Nebraska seniors Mary Hanna (right) and Lisa Andersson (left) will help lead the Big Red throughout the 2017 season. Both senior captains and junior Katerina Matysova will provide strong leadership from their 2016 Review and History ...............21-28 starting singles and doubles positions this season. 2016 Season in Review ........................... 21-22 2016 Results/Stats ....................................... 23 [email protected] or by calling (402) 215- Communications Series Records ............................................. 24 3028 at least one day in advance. Releases will Assistant A.D./Communications ....Keith Mann Year-by-Year Records (2000-16) .............. 25-26 be provided each week the Huskers compete Women’s Tennis Contact ........Cheyenne Rowe Single-Season and Career Records .............. 27 and final match results are available at Office Phone ............................(402) 472-6263 Honors & Awards/Letterwinners ................. 28 Huskers.com. Cell Phone ...............................(402) 215-3028 Office Fax .................................(402) 472-2005 This is Nebraska .............................29-52 Quick Facts Cheyenne’s E-mail [email protected] Sid & Hazel Dillon Tennis Center ............. 29-31 Location .......................................Lincoln, Neb. Secondary Tennis Contact..............Bobby Kelly World-Class Facilities .............................. 32-33 Population .......................................... 268,738 Cell Phone................................(970) 744-0904 National Powers/Big Ten Leaders ........... 34-35 Enrollment ............................................ 25,897 Bobby’s [email protected] Athletic Medicine/Nutrition ................... 36-37 Nickname ...................... Cornhuskers, Huskers Photographer ................................Scott Bruhn Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab ....... 38-39 Colors ................................. Scarlet and Cream Administrative Assistant .............. Vicki Capazo Academic Success/Experience ............... 40-43 Affiliation .................................NCAA Division I Website .......................................Huskers.com Nebraska Life Skills ................................. 44-45 Conference ........................................... Big Ten University of Nebraska ........................... 46-49 Chancellor ..................................Ronnie Green City of Lincoln/State of Nebraska ........... 50-51 Director of Athletics ................ Shawn Eichorst Nebraska Women’s Tennis Tradition ........... 52 Executive Associate A.D./SWA ......Pat Logsdon Nebraska Athletics Mission Statement Media Guide Credits Women’s Tennis Information The mission of the University of Nebraska The 2016-17 Nebraska women’s tennis Head Coach ..............................Scott Jacobson Athletic Department is to serve our student- media guide was written and designed by Record at Nebraska ............................ 370-226 athletes, coaches, staff and fans by: Displaying Communications Student Assistants Cheyenne Years at Nebraska ........................................ 26 INTEGRITY in every decision and action; Rowe, Rachel Long and Bobby Kelly. Editing Jacobson’s E-mail [email protected] Building and maintaining TRUST with others; assistance was provided by Director of Jacobson’s Cell .........................(402) 450-6229 Giving RESPECT to each person we encounter; Communications Operations Jeff Griesch. The Assistant Coach ..................German Dalmagro Pursuing unity of purpose through TEAMWORK; guide was produced entirely on Adobe InDesign Years at Nebraska ..................................... Four Maintaining LOYALTY to student-athletes, co- CS6 and printed at the University of Nebraska Dalmagro’s E-mail [email protected] workers, fans and the University of Nebraska. Printing Services. Photos by Scott Bruhn, Nate Dalmagro’s Cell ........................(402) 707-8617 Huskers.com Olsen, Sarah Pogue, Stephanie Carpenter. Tennis Secretary ............................Ellen Shutts Complete results, releases and statistics Cover and inside front cover photo by Kelly Tennis Office Phone .................(402) 472-9430 will be updated each week on the official Morgan Kuwitzky. Tennis Office Fax ......................(402) 472-2272 athletic department home page at Facility ....... Sid and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center Huskers.com. Updated biographies for Nebraska Media Information 2016 Overall Finish ................................... 17-8 tennis athletes, along with current roster and All interviews of student-athletes and coaching 2016 Big Ten Record/Finish ............... 4-7/10th schedule information are also available, along staff must be arranged through Communications 2016 Final ITA Ranking...................Not Ranked with other special features. Student Assistant Cheyenne Rowe by e-mail at Letterwinners Returning/Lost ....................7/3 FOUR NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES SINCE 2010 2 2016-17 NEBRASKA WOMEN'S TENNIS NEBRASKA WELCOMES NEW TALENT The 2017 Nebraska women’s tennis team (bottom, from left): Elizabeth Gould and Sydney Harlow; (middle from left): Paula Del Cueto Castillo, Hayley Haakenstad, Jeannie Lozowski and Vasanti Shinde; (top, from left): Lisa Andersson, Katerina Matysova, Mary Hanna, Emma Worley, M’Balia Bangoura and Claire Reifeis. Nebraska plans to continue its rise on the Big Ten of sophomores Shinde, Paula Del Cueto Castillo, Reifeis joins the Big Red from Indianapolis, Ind. as and national levels on the women’s tennis courts in Elizabeth Gould and Sydney Harlow. the fourth of five freshman. As a four-star commit, the spring of 2017. Shinde made a big impact at the No. 4 singles Reifeis was ranked as high as No. 94 nationally. The Huskers, who produced a five-match position, where she claimed 10 of her 15 total Reifeis performed well for the Huskers during improvement in the win column with a 17-8 overall singles wins in 2015-16. As a freshman, Shinde won the fall, earning the most combined wins among the record in 2016, must replace a pair of talented 33 combined spring matches in singles and doubles freshmen with a 14-7 record. seniors in Maggy Lehmicke and Mackenna Maddox- for one of the most successful rookie campaigns in Worley joins the Huskers after earning all-state Herr from last year’s squad. Husker history. honors in Northville, Mich. She won her only match Although those two seniors combined for 43 wins Shinde spent the fall rehabilitating an injury which of the fall season. in singles and doubles last spring, Nebraska Coach could limit her in the middle of the Husker lineups in Nebraska’s returning players and talented Scott Jacobson said the Huskers are confident that 2017. However, if Shinde is healthy, the Huskers could newcomers will compete in the state-of-the-art Sid five freshmen and a year of experience for seven field formidable lineups at the national level in both and Hazel Dillon Tennis Center again in 2016-17. The returning players can keep the Big Red climbing. singles and doubles. sparkling facility’s championship indoor and outdoor “We have a tremendously gifted group of returners While Shinde’s status is still a question mark courts are expected to provide the Huskers with an from a much-improved program last year,” Jacobson entering the spring, the Huskers have been impressed amazing home-court advantage. Last season the said. “And a group of incoming freshmen who have with the talent and work ethic of their group of five Big Red finished 16-3 in the inaugural season of the worked harder at growing their games than any class freshmen. Dillon Tennis Center. that we have ever recruited.” M’Balia Bangoura, Hayley Haakenstad, Jeannie The 2017 Huskers open with a nine-match home The young team will be led by seniors Lisa Lozowski, Claire Reifeis and Emma Worley come stand that runs from Friday, Jan. 27 (Air Force) Andersson and Mary Hanna along with junior to Nebraska with impressive