Gators Awarded No. 1 Seed for ITA National Team Indoor Championship

Friday, February 10

New Haven, CT

3:30 PM ET

Florida Gators

Michigan

Brooke Austin and the Gators are the No. 1 seed at the national event.

Gators Awarded No. 1 Seed for ITA National Team Indoor Championship

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 | Women's Tennis

Complete Draw

This is Florida’s 17th all-time appearance in the national event, but just its second in the last six years.

By: Kathy Cafazzo

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Florida is heading to the 2017 ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoor Championship as the No. 1 seed in the 16-team event held in New Haven, Connecticut.

The four-day event, which begins on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, takes place at two sites: the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center and the Tennis and Fitness Center of Rocky Hill, with Yale University serving as the official event host. The University of California, Berkeley, is the defending National Indoors champion.

Florida at the National Indoor

This is Florida's 17th all-time appearance in the national event, but just its second in the last six years.
The Gators have won the championship six times, with the last title coming in 1998-99. Since that year, Florida has competed in the event just five times.
The last time the Gators were at the NIC was in 2014-15 and the squad reached the semifinals.

Following the Action

For updated draws, results, live scoring and video, daily video highlights and photo galleries, head to the Division I Women's National Indoors event page.
On social media, be sure to follow @ITA_Tennis on Twitter and Instagram and use the hashtag #ITAIndoors to join the conversation.
FloTennis will be on site providing live streaming coverage of all four days of competition. FloTennis is a subscription-based service with monthly and annual rate options. To sign up and view the live stream, click here.

Quick Overview

The ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoor Championship is in its 30th year of existence.
Fifteen teams qualified for the event by winning their respective 2017 ITA Kick-Off Weekend four-team regional, while Yale received an automatic bid as the host site.
The teams will compete in a single-elimination tournament over a four-day span to crown a national indoor champion.
Each team is guaranteed three matches at the event.

About the Draw

The top eight seeds in the #ITAIndoors field were determined based on an unpublished ranking conducted by the National Ranking Committee.

The remaining eight teams were placed into the draw by random selection.
Teams were moved to avoid playing opponents in the first round already on their respective regular-season schedules.

#ITAIndoors First Round Matches
No. 3 Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss, 9 a.m. (RH)
No. 6 Ohio State vs. Auburn, 9 a.m. (Yale)
No. 2 North Carolina vs. Yale, 12 p.m. (Yale)
No. 7 California vs. Georgia Tech, 12 p.m. (RH)
No. 1 Florida vs. Michigan, 3:30 p.m. (Yale)
No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. Texas Tech, 3:30 p.m. (RH)
No. 4 Pepperdine vs. Texas A&M, 6:30 p.m. (Yale)
No. 5 Georgia vs. Duke, 6:30 p.m. (RH)

Yale - Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center
RH - Tennis and Fitness Center of Rocky Hill