Posted: Mar 16, 2023
THE TEAMS
Santa Clara (0-7) at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (6-1)
Santa Clara (0-7) at Long Beach State (4-6)
All records are as of March 15. Both Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Long Beach State have matches on Thursday, March 16.
MATCH INFO
vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
When: Friday, March 17 at noon.
Where: Biszantz Family Tennis Center (Claremont, Calif.)
Where: Biszantz Family Tennis Center (Claremont, Calif.)
Video: Live Stream
vs. Long Beach State
When: Saturday, March 18 at 11 a.m.
Where: Rhodes Tennis Center (Long Beach, Calif.)
Where: Rhodes Tennis Center (Long Beach, Calif.)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
NOTES
- Santa Clara travels to southern California to play their first road matches of the spring season after opening with seven-straight home contests.
- The Broncos play Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Friday at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center where the defending 2022 NCAA Division III National Champions are 3-0 this season (as of March 15).
- On Saturday, SCU faces Long Beach State who are 2-4 at home on the year (as of March 15).
- SCU last played on March 8 where they lost 4-0 to San José State.
- Dasee Carter and JennaMarie Gordon leads the team with two singles wins. Carter also tops the team with a pair of doubles wins along with Zlotnik.
- During the fall season, Gordon led the team with five singles wins while a trio of Broncos tallied two wins.
- The Broncos are led by first-year head coach Cliford Awuy who was promoted from a volunteer assistant on the SCU men's program. Awuy takes over the program from Ben Cabell who was at the helm for 16 seasons.
- Awuy is be assisted by Alory Pereira, a former All-Southern Conference selection at East Tennessee State, who joined the Broncos last September.
- The Broncos return six players from last season: Kacey Feng, Velizara Fileva, JennaMarie Gordon, Giulia Hayer, Finley Kalinic and Varya Zlotnik while adding two newcomers: Dasee Carter and Anna Semler.
During the 2021-22 season:
- Santa Clara finished with a 9-9 overall record including 2-5 in the West Coast Conference.
- Hayer was named All-WCC doubles honorable mention.
- The team finished with a ranking of No. 10 in ITA's Northwest Regional team standings.
- For the fourth year in a row, the ITA recognized the Broncos as a 2022 All-Academic team while eight Broncos were named ITA Scholar-Athletes.
- Gordon and Hayer topped the team with 13 overall singles wins.
- Hayer also led the Broncos in overall doubles wins with 16 while Gordon was second with 15.