Important weekend for women’s tennis
The Centennial Center Tennis Facility will become a ‘who’s who’ of small college tennis this weekend.
Georgia College & State University will host its annual Fall Women’s Championships. There are many teams that are traditional nationally ranked programs.
The Bobcats will compete in the individually flighted tournament on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free and open to the public.
Matches begin at 8 a.m. Friday and will continue all day with first and
second round action. The tournament will also run all day Saturday, and the championships will be held on Sunday morning. The tournament is broken down into three singles flights and two doubles flights.
Players from GC&SU, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Augusta State University, Brenau University, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Clayton State University, Georgia Perimeter College, Gordon College, Kennesaw State, Unuversity of North Carolina at Pembroke and University of South Carolina at Aiken will be competing.
“I am very excited about having such a high-quality field of women’s tennis players coming to our campus for this weekend’s GC&SU Fall Championships,” said Bobcat Tennis Head Coach Steve Barsby. “It is probably the toughest overall field in all of small college tennis, so we will see how our women fare with the stiff competition.”
Brenau University’s Tonya Grib is the top seeded player in the ‘A’ Singles Flight, which also features last year’s Intercollegiate Tennis Association NCAA Division II National Champion, Zsofia Golopencza from Armstrong Atlantic State, who is the No.2 seed. Several other All-American and All-Conference athletes will be competing.
GC&SU will be represented in the various flights by sophomores Luiza Biktyakova and Annika Persson, freshmen Mia Paavilainen, Kelly Miller and Caroline Lefevre and junior Kremena Vassileva.
Biktyakova and Paavilainen hope to continue their success after winning the ITA Mid-Atlantic Regional Doubles Championship last weekend.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Oct 11 2002. Filed under Sports.
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