Women's Tennis Quartet Selected for NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Women's Tennis
The University of Florida's Csilla Borsanyi (Hungary) and Julia Cohen (Philadelphia, Pa.) were selected to compete in the NCAA Women's Tennis Singles Championships, while the pair of Megan Alexander (Dallas, Texas) and Marrit Boonstra (The Netherlands) was named to the NCAA Doubles Championship, the NCAA Committee announced Wednesday.
Borsanyi, a sophomore who is ranked No. 33 nationally, will be making her second appearance in the NCAA Singles Championship after advancing to the quarterfinals her rookie season and collecting All-America honors. Cohen is a freshman, who is ranked No. 29 in the country and plays the No. 1 singles position in the dual match lineup this year for the sixth-ranked Gators.
The doubles team of Alexander and Boonstra are the No. 8-ranked pair in the country and sport a 13-1 record together, including a 7-0 record versus other nationally-ranked teams.
The individual draws for both will be revealed by Tuesday, May 21 with action in the 64-player singles tournament beginning on Wednesday, May 22, while the 32-team doubles event gets underway on Thursday, May 23 at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center in Tulsa, Okla.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championships was 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 applied the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete is the automatic qualifier from those conferences.
Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championships was awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applied the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences.
Gators have produced a total of four NCAA Singles titles and four NCAA Doubles crowns since the individual tournaments began in 1982:
Florida's NCAA Singles Champions
1988 - Shaun Stafford
1992 - Lisa Raymond
1993 - Lisa Raymond
1996 - Jill Craybas
Florida's NCAA Doubles Champions
1991 - Jillian Alexander & Nicole Arendt
1996 - Dawn Buth & Stephanie Nickitas
1997 - Dawn Buth & Stephanie Nickitas
2001 - Whitney Laiho & Jessica Lehnhoff
2008 NCAA Singles & Doubles Championships Selections
SINGLES
Automatic qualifications (18), listed alphabetically by conference:
Atlantic Coast: Ani Mijacika Clemson
Atlantic Sun: Yevgeniya Stupak East Tennessee State
Big East: Kelcy Tefft Notre Dame
Big Sky: Katrina Zheltova Sacramento State
Big Ten: Maria Mosolova Northwestern
Big 12: Lenka Broosova Baylor
Big West: Hannah Grady Long Beach State
Colonial: Megan Moulton-Levy William and Mary
C-USA: Kellie Schmitt Marshall
Ivy Beier Ko: Harvard
Missouri Valley: Jennifer Migan Indiana State
Mountain West: Elena Gantcheva UNLV
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 (46), listed alphabetically by last name:
Nadia Abdala, Arizona State
Susie Babos, California
Csilla Borsanyi, Florida
Ekaterina Burduli, Washington State
Venice Chan, Washington
Fani Chifchieva, Auburn
Julia Cohen, Florida
Marina Cossou, California
Megan Falcon, LSU
Amanda Fink, Southern California
Kirsten Flower, Georgia Tech
Yvette Hyndman, Georgia
Claire Ilcinkas, California
Maya Johansson, Georgia Tech
Tracey Lin, UCLA
Lauren Lui, Northwestern
Sanaz Marand, North Carolina
Whitney McCray, Georgia Tech
Amanda McDowell, Georgia Tech
Kelcy McKenna, Arizona State
Kristi Miller, Georgia Tech
Samantha Murray, Northwestern
Lindsey Nelson, Southern California
Catherine Newman, Vanderbilt
Jessica Nguyen, Stanford
Gabriela Niculescu, Southern California
Ellah Nze, Duke
Taylor Ormond, Baylor
Anastasia Petukhova, Fresno State
Elizabeth Plotkin, Duke
Andrea Remynse, UCLA
Georgia Rose, Northwestern
Katie Rybakova, Florida State
Yasmin Schnac,k UCLA
Gira Schofield, South Carolina
Danielle Steinberg, Arizona
Chisako Sugiyama, Michigan
Amanda Taylor, Vanderbilt
Katarina Tsang, North Carolina
Tatsiana Uvarova, VCU
Laura Vallverdu, Miami (Florida)
Cristina Visico, California
Caitlin Whoriskey, Tennessee
Riza Zalameda, UCLA
Zuzana Zemenova, Baylor
Reka Zsilinszka, Duke
ALTERNATES:
1. Kelley Hyndman, Georgia
2. Carol Salge, Clemson
3. Nina Munch-Soegaard, TCU
4. Elizabeth Ferris, Utah
5. Anastasia Sukova, Brigham Young
6. Vanja Corovic, Texas
7. Michaela Kissel,l Miami (Florida)
8. Celia Durkin, Stanford
Seeds 1-8:
1. Aurelija Miseviciute, Arkansas
2. Ani Mijacika, Clemson
3. Hilary Barte, Stanford
4. Maria Mosolova, Northwestern
5. Marina Cossou, California
6. Amanda Fin,k Southern California
7. Amanda McDowell, Georgia Tech
8. Riza Zalameda, UCLA
Seeds 9-16, listed alphabetically by last name:
Fani Chifchieva, Auburn
Megan Falcon, LSU
Melanie Gloria, Fresno State
Sanaz Marand, North Carolina
Kristi Miller, Georgia Tech
Megan Moulton-Levy, William and Mary
Jessica Nguyen, Stanford
Georgia Rose, Northwestern
DOUBLES
Automatic qualifications (14), listed alphabetically by conference:
Atlantic Coast: Carol Salge -Ani Mijacika, Clemson
Big East: Brook Buck -Kelcy Tefft, Notre Dame
Big Ten: Georgia Rose -Lauren Lu,i Northwestern
Big 12: Lenka Broosova -Zuzana Zemenova, Baylor
Big West: Steffi Wong -Brittany Blalock, Cal Poly
Colonia:l Megan Moulton-Levy -Katarina Zoricic, William and Mary
C-USA: Karolina Soor -Kellie Schmitt, Marshall
Ivy: Julia Koulbitskaya -Kate Kosminskaya, Pennsylvania
Mountain West: Elizabeth Ferris -Emily Kwok, Utah
Pacific-10: Riza Zalameda -Tracey Lin, UCLA
SEC: Megan Alexander -Marrit Boonstra, Florida
Sun Belt: Egle Petrauskaite -Liset Brito, Florida International
West Coast: Bianca Dulgheru -Sylvia Kosakowski, Pepperdine
WAC: Melanie Gloria -Tinesta Rowe, Fresno State
At-large selections (18), listed alphabetically by institution:
Laila Abdala -Nadia Abdala, Arizona State
Ela Kaluder -Aurelija Miseviciute, Arkansas
Alex Haney -Melissa Koning, Auburn
Susie Babos -Stephanie Kusano, California
Melissa Mang -Amanda Granson, Duke
Renata Kucerkova -Anastasia Petukhova, Fresno State
Kristi Miller -Whitney McCray, Georgia Tech
Mykala Hedberg -Megan Falcon, LSU
Romy Farah -Laura Vallverdu, Miami (Florida)
Nika Koukhartchouk -Karen Nijssen, Mississippi
Sophie Grabinski -Sanaz Marand, North Carolina
Gira Schofield -Ana Zubori, South Carolina
Amanda Fink -Gabriela Niculescu, Southern California
Lindsey Burdette -Hilary Barte, Stanford
Anna Sydorska -Macall Harkins, TCU
Caitlin Whoriskey -Zsofia Zubor, Tennessee
Marija Milic -Vanja Corovic, Texas
Amanda Taylor -Courtney Ulery, Vanderbilt
ALTERNATES:
1. Elena Gantcheva -Kristina Nedeltcheva, UNLV
2. Carolina Escamilla -Christine Johnson, Kentucky
3. Chisako Sugiyama -Tania Mahtani, Michigan
4. Lindsey Pereira -Maggie Yahner, Virginia
5. Natalia Bubien -Pavi Francis, SMU
6. Julia Bauregger -Mallory Voelker, Denver
7. Caroline Baily -Maria Mizyuk, Nevada
8. Janet Durham -Samantha van der Drift, Texas Tech
Seeds 1-4:
1. Riza Zalameda -Tracey Lin, UCLA
2. Tinesta Rowe -Melanie Gloria, Fresno State
3. Brook Buck -Kelcy Tefft, Notre Dame
4. Carol Salge -Ani Mijacika, Clemson
Seeds 5-8, listed alphabetically by institution:
Zuzana Zemenova -Lenka Broosova, Baylor
Amanda Fink -Gabriela Niculescu, Southern California
Megan Alexander -Marrit Boonstra, Florida
Melissa Mang -Amanda Granson, Duke
END OF REPORT
