Saturday, February 23
Amherst, MA / Bay Road Club
1:30 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
University of Massachusetts
Bobcats Travel to UMass on Saturday in Non-Conference Play
2/23/2019 8:30:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Quinnipiac at UMass
Saturday, Feb. 23 | 1:30 p.m.
Bay Road Club | Amherst, Mass.
Amherst, Mass. – Quinnipiac women's tennis is back in action on Saturday, traveling to UMass for a match vs. the Minutewomen at 1:30 p.m. at the Bay Road Club.
LAST WEEKEND
Saturday, Feb. 23 | 1:30 p.m.
Bay Road Club | Amherst, Mass.
Amherst, Mass. – Quinnipiac women's tennis is back in action on Saturday, traveling to UMass for a match vs. the Minutewomen at 1:30 p.m. at the Bay Road Club.
LAST WEEKEND
- The Bobcats topped Niagara, 4-3, in MAAC play on Saturday, Feb. 16, then fell at Buffalo by the final score of 6-1 on Sunday, Feb. 17.
- The Bobcats have now won 49 straight MAAC matches since joining the conference in 2013-14, including 39 consecutive regular season wins.
- Dominique Vasile, Jennifer Lu, Layla Rodriguez and Courtney Nash all earned singles wins for the Bobcats – as all four Quinnipiac points came via singles action.
- Nash now has two singles wins for the Bobcats over three events in the spring season.
- Quinnipiac women's tennis has been selected as the conference favorite in the 2019 MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced by the conference office on Thursday, Jan. 17.
- The Bobcats, who received 47 total points in the poll, earned five of seven first place votes.
- Quinnipiac has won 48 straight MAAC matches since joining the conference in 2013-14, including 38 consecutive regular season victories.
- The Bobcats are coming off their fifth-straight MAAC Championship in 2017-18, posting a perfect 7-0 record in regular season conference action. Quinnipiac finished the 2018 MAAC Championship with two singles victories 15 seconds apart, lifting the program to a 4-1 win over Marist at the Mercer County Tennis Center on April 29, 2018.
- Paula Miller enters her fifth season as the Director of Tennis and Women's Tennis Head Coach in 2018-19, after a successful season in which Quinnipiac women's tennis reached their 11th NCAA Tournament Appearance in the Division I era after winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship title for the fifth straight year.
- Miller also earned her fourth consecutive MAAC Coach of the Year Award as she guided the Bobcats to their fifth straight MAAC Regular Season Championship with a fifth straight perfect year in the MAAC.
- The Bobcats went 7-0 in the regular season before claiming two more wins in the MAAC Tournament, to improve to a perfect 47-0 against league opponents since joining the MAAC in 2013-14.
- Sophomore Dominique Vasile (Bingham Farms, MI) returns to the Bobcats after an impressive freshman year. She was named 2017-18 MAAC Player of the Year and MAAC Rookie of the Year, and was selected to the First-Team All-MAAC team at No. 1 singles and No. 2 doubles. She finished 17-5 in singles last year, leading the program in win percentage.
- The reining MAAC Championship Most Outstanding Performer Jennifer Lu (Cypress, CA) returns for her senior year with the Bobcats. Lu posted a team-high 20 wins in singles (20-14) and a team-best 18 wins in doubles (18-13) in 2017-18, earning All-MAAC First Team status at No. 2 singles.
- Proyfon Lohaphaisan (Santa Clara, CA) also returns for her senior year in 2018-19 after posting 34 total wins last season. She went 19-11 in singles play and 15-10 in doubles action, earning First Team All-MAAC status at No. 5 singles and No. 2 doubles.
- Sophomore Courtney Nash (Andover, Mass.) was a First-Team All-MAAC performer at No. 6 singles last year, finishing with a 17-8 mark in singles play.
- Sophomore Payton Bradley (Downington, PA) was named First-Team All-MAAC for No. 3 singles, compiling 25 total wins in 2017-18.
- Layla Rodriguez (Rancho Santa Margarita) was named to the All-MAAC First Team in No. 4 singles, earning 15 singles wins and 15 doubles wins last year.
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