Posted: Apr 06, 2022
THE TEAMS
Friday: Santa Clara (8-6) at Dixie State (2-14)
Saturday: Santa Clara (8-6, 2-2 WCC) at BYU (7-13, 1-3 WCC)
* Plays San Francisco on Thursday before facing Santa Clara
MATCH INFO
vs. Dixie State
vs. BYU
When: Saturday, April 9 at 11 a.m.
Where: Outdoor Tennis Courts (Provo, Utah)
Where: Outdoor Tennis Courts (Provo, Utah)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
NOTES
- Santa Clara plays a nonconference match against Dixie State on Friday and a West Coast Conference match against BYU on Saturday, both on the road.
- The Broncos are 6-4 in nonconference matches this spring and 2-2 in WCC action.
- Giulia Hayer leads the team with eight singles victories this spring. She is 5-0 on court five.
- Velizara Fileva, JennaMarie Gordon and Varya Zlotnik have each won two matches in a row.
- Katherine Petty has a team-high eight doubles wins in the dual match season.
- Santa Clara returns eight players (JennaMarie Gordon, Giulia Hayer, Finley Kalinic, Lindsay Lynch, Lindsey Pesqueira, Katherine Petty, Jamie Schroer and Varya Zlotnik) from last season and add two newcomers (Kacey Feng and Velizara Fileva).
- During the fall season, Feng led the team with five singles wins while Gordon and Hayer topped the squad with eight doubles wins each.
During the 2020-21 season:
- Four freshmen (Gordon, Kalinic, Petty and Zlotnik) were regulars in the starting lineups in both singles and doubles.
- Gordon, a transfer from Gonzaga, was named honorable mention All-West Coast Conference in singles in her first season on the Mission Campus.
- Kalinic posted a team-high seven wins in singles with three of those wins coming on court three.
- Hayer had a team-high eight doubles wins with seven of them coming on court two, all while paired with Gordon last season.
- Head coach Ben Cabell is in his 16th year as the head coach. He owns a 137-162 career record and has coached 26 all-conference singles, 12 all-conference doubles and 41 conference all-academic honorees.