Posted: Mar 22, 2023
THE TEAMS
Santa Clara (0-9, 0-1 WCC) at Saint Mary's (4-5, 0-0 WCC)
Santa Clara (0-9, 0-1 WCC) at Pacific (5-3, 0-0 WCC)
All records are as of March 22. Pacific plays San Francisco on Friday.
MATCH INFO
vs. Saint Mary's
When: Friday, March 24 at 11 a.m.
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Video: Live Stream
vs. Pacific
When: Saturday, March 25 at 11 a.m.
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Where: Degheri Tennis Center (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Video: Live Stream
NOTES
- Santa Clara returns home to host a pair of West Coast Conference matches, against Pacific on Friday and Saint Mary's on Saturday.
- They will be the second and third league matches for the Broncos who opened WCC play back on March 4 against BYU.
- It will be the WCC opener for Pacific and the second league match for Saint Mary's who will play San Francisco a day earlier.
- The Broncos are 0-7 at home this season while Saint Mary's is 1-4 and Pacific is 3-2 in true road contests.
- SCU played the first seven matches of the spring at home before playing their first road matches last weekend.
- 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.
