WOMEN S RESULTS TENNIS TENNIS LIBERTY FLAMES

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1 WOMEN S RESULTS Singles Player #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Total Livia Branco Erica Fredstrom Martyna Hanusz Ekaterina Kuznetsova Jonita Randolph Dina Senkina Totals Doubles Players #1 #2 #3 Totals Branco/Fredstrom Branco/Kuznetsova Fredstrom/Senkina Fredstrom/Kuznetsova Hanusz/Randolph Hanusz/Senkina Kuznetsova/Senkina Randolph/Senkina Senkina Totals Spring Results Date Opponent Score Record Conference February 6 UNC Greensboro L, February 18 at Davidson L, February 25 Mary Washington W, March 4 George Washington W, March 9 Virginia Intermont W, March 11 at Coastal Carolina* L, March 13 at Charleston Southern* L, March 16 at UNC Wilmington L, March 16 UNC Asheville* W, March 17 at North Carolina A&T W, March 27 at James Madison L, March 29 Birmingham-Southern* L, March 30 at High Point* W, April 1 Howard W, April 4 Radford* W, April 7 at Longwood W, April 9 Winthrop* L, April 13 vs. No. 3 High Point # W, April 14 vs. No. 2 Coastal Carolina # L, *=Big South Match #=Big South Women s Championship 24

2 WOMEN S SEASON IN REVIEW The 2006 season was one marked by promise for the Liberty women s tennis team. Not only did the Lady Flames post their first-ever Big South Tournament match win with their first-round victory over High Point, but they garnered four all-conference team honors and completed the season with a 10-9 overall record and a 3-4 conference mark. Coming into the campaign, the team looked to junior Jonita Randolph to provide stability and success at the No. 1 singles position, as well as to provide help on the doubles side of competition. Randolph did not falter, posting 20 singles wins on the season, including a tournament victory in her flight at the Hampton Roads Collegiate Invitational. This success earned Randolph her second All-Big South singles honor, as well as putting her in the record book as having the most career wins in the six-year history of Liberty Women s Tennis. Randolph s success also extended to doubles, as she won 13 matches and earned all-conference honors with partner Martyna Hanusz. Hanusz, a two-year veteran of Liberty tennis, became part of one of the best doubles teams in the conference while teaming with Randolph. Together, the duo won six-straight matches at one point in the season and, with that level of success, Hanusz earned her first All-Big South honor. In addition to these two collegiate tennis veterans, the team also saw success from other sources. Firstyear player Dina Senkina far exceeded expectations. Playing from the No. 2 singles position, Senkina went 21-4, including a 17-1 mark during the spring season. Those 21 singles victories are the most single-season in program history. Another transfer also had a solid season, as North Dakota native Erica Fredstrom posted a better than.500 record playing at No. 3 singles. Towards the lower part of the singles lineup, freshman Ekaterina Kuznetsova proved to be a key part of the future of the women s tennis team, posting a 5-1 record at No. 5 singles and winning five of her final six matches. Fellow freshman Livia Branco also showed promise. The team as a whole began their spring season with a difficult non-conference slate. After dropping their first two matches, at home versus UNC Greensboro and on the road against Davidson, the squad rebounded with wins over Mary Washington, Atlantic-10 power George Washington, and a 7-0 shutout of Virginia Intermont. On March 11, the women s team began Big South conference play against eventual tournament runnerup Coastal Carolina. After dropping a 5-2 decision to the Chanticleers, Liberty suffered a close 4-3 setback to the Lady Buccaneers of Charleston Southern. The team split its next four matches, leaving them with a 5-6 overall record heading into their March 28 match against Birmingham-Southern. The match was a disappointing setback, both in terms of the 6-1 overall loss as well as individually. After winning 11-straight matches to start the spring, Senkina dropped a three-set match at No. 2 singles, which would prove to be her only defeat of the spring. Senkina would go on to win her final six matches and was taken to three sets once more all year. Despite the disappointment of that day in Alabama, the team rebounded well from the defeat, going on to play their best tennis of the season. From March 30- April 7, the Lady Flames won four-consecutive matches, including 4-3 wins over conference foes Radford and High Point, and a 6-1 rout of the Howard Lady Bison. April 9 brought the team to a home match versus conference power Winthrop. The Lady Flames dropped the match by a 5-2 count to finish the regular season with a 9-8 overall mark. This gave the Lady Flames a first-round date with the Panthers of High Point in the Big South Championship. The 4-2 result was one of the most important triumphs in program history. Behind singles wins from Randolph, Kuznetsova and Senkina, Liberty won its first Big South Conference tournament match and moved on to the semifinals of the tournament. The Lady Flames season would end there, as they were defeated by No. 2-seed Coastal Carolina. Despite the loss, the Liberty women s tennis team clearly showed great promise during the season and hopes for bigger and better things during the upcoming campaign. Ekaterina Kuznetsova and Dina Senkina MEDIA GUIDE 25

3 WOMEN S YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS Spring 2001 (1-12) 1 GARDNER-WEBB 6 7 NORTH CAROLINA A&T 0 0 at Davidson 6 0 at Wofford 7 0 at UNC Asheville 7 1 at Winthrop 6 0 HIGH POINT 7 0 ROBERT MORRIS 7 0 ELON 7 0 at Radford 7 0 CHARLESTON SO. 7 0 COASTAL CAROLINA 7 0 vs. Radford % 4 Spring 2002 (5-14) 6 RANDOLPH MACON 1 7 MT. ST. MARY'S 0 0 APPALACHIAN STATE 7 0 at Coastal Carolina 7 0 at Charleston Southern 7 0 at UNC Wilmington 7 0 WINTHROP 7 6 N.C. A&T 1 0 at High Point 7 1 BIRMINGHAM-SO. 6 1 at Elon 6 First Women s Team RADFORD 4 2 at Longwood 5 1 NORFOLK ST. 6 0 at James Madison 7 7 LYNCHBURG 0 4 UNC ASHEVILLE 3 0 vs. Winthrop % 5 Spring 2003 (5-14) 6 RANDOLPH MACON 1 7 MT. ST. MARY'S 0 0 APPALACHIAN STATE 7 0 at Coastal Carolina 7 0 at Charleston So. 7 0 at UNC Wilmington 7 0 WINTHROP 7 6 N.C. A&T 1 0 at High Point 7 1 BIRMINGHAM-SO. 6 1 at Elon 6 3 RADFORD 4 2 at Longwood 5 1 NORFOLK ST. 6 0 at James Madison 7 7 LYNCHBURG 0 4 UNC ASHEVILLE 3 0 vs. Winthrop % 5 Andreea Cotuna Spring 2004 (12-8) 7 AVERETT 0 7 SWEET BRIAR 0 3 at E. Tennessee St. 4 7 vs. Carson Newman 0 5 at Berry 2 6 vs. Shorter College 1 0 at Coastal Carolina 7 7 at Charleston So. 0 1 at UNC Wilmington 6 6 at North Carolina A&T 1 7 GARDNER-WEBB 0 7 RADFORD 0 2 BIRMINGHAM-SO. 5 4 UNC-ASHEVILLE 3 1 WINTHROP 6 3 at High Point 4 7 at Longwood 0 6 NORFOLK ST. 1 1 vs. Birmingham-So.% 4 26

4 Spring 2005 (2-15) 1 EAST TENNESSEE STATE 6 6 SWEETBRIAR COLLEGE 1 0 at Winthrop* 7 3 at UNC Asheville* 4 4 at Gardner-Webb 3 1 at Birmingham-So. 6 0 at Virginia Tech 7 3 NORTH CAROLINA A&T 4 0 HIGH POINT 7 0 COASTAL CAROLINA 7 WOMEN S YEAR-BY-YEAR RESULTS Women s Team Jonita Randolph 1 CHARLESTON SO. 6 3 at Radford 4 3 LONGWOOD 4 1 at UNC Greensboro 6 2 at James Madison 5 0 at Winthrop # 4 # Big South Tournament Spring 2006 (10-9) Coach: Alejandra Aguilar 2 UNC GREENSBORO 5 1 at Davidson 6 6 MARY WASHINGTON 1 6 GEORGE WASHINGTON 1 7 VIRGINIA INTERMONT 0 2 at Coastal Carolina 5 3 at Charleston So. 4 2 at UNC Wilmington 5 7 UNC ASHEVILLE 0 6 at North Carolina A&T 1 3 at James Madison 4 1 BIRMINGHAM-SO. 6 4 at High Point 3 6 HOWARD 1 4 RADFORD 3 5 at Longwood 2 2 WINTHROP 5 4 vs. High Point % 2 0 vs. Coastal Carolina % 4 Last Opponents W L Meeting Appalachian State Averett Berry Birmingham-Southern Carson Newman Charleston Southern Coastal Carolina Davidson East Tennessee St Elon Gardner-Webb George Washington High Point Howard James Madison Longwood Lynchburg All-Time Series Records Last Opponents W L Meeting Mary Washington Mt. St. Mary s Norfolk State North Carolina A&T UNC Asheville UNC Greensboro UNC Wilmington Radford Randolph-Macon Robert Morris Shorter Sweet Briar Virginia Intermont Virginia Tech Winthrop Wofford MEDIA GUIDE 27

5 WOMEN S ALL-TIME ROSTER Andreea Cotuna Channel Meijer Clara GonzalezDorado April Hermann AAAA Bethany Allen 2002 BBBB Amber Barrett 2002 Livia Branco 2006 CCCC Alison Cho 2002, 03 Elizabeth Cleavenger 2002 Andreea Cotuna 2002, 03, 04, 05 Carrie Cragen 2002 DDDD Onastazia Deluca 2005 Nichole Duncan 2004, 05 FFFF Erica Fredstrom 2006 GGGG Brooke Garman 2002, 03 Ana GonzalezDorado 2003 Clara GonzalezDorado 2003, 04 KKKK Ekaterina Kuznetsova 2006 MMMM Channel Meijer 2004 PPPP Mayra Prado 2005 RRRR Jonita Randolph 2004, 05, 06 SSSS Dina Senkina 2006 Maria Solc 2002, 03 WWWW Christine Winner 2003, 04 Current players in bold and italics HHHH Martyna Hanusz 2005, 06 Sarah Henry 2005 April Hermann 2002, 03, 04 Stacey Housley

6 WOMEN S TENNIS RECORDS SINGLE SEASON RECORDS Most Singles Wins Player Year Record Dina Senkina Jonita Randolph Channell Meijer Clara GonzalezDorado Best Singles Winning Pct. Player Year Record Pct. Dina Senkina Jonita Randolph Channell Meijer Jonita Randolph Clara GonzalezDorado Most Doubles Wins Player Year Wins Channell Meijer Jonita Randolph Martyna Hanusz Jonita Randolph Best Doubles Winning Pct. Player Year Record Pct. Channell Meijer Jonita Randolph Nichole Duncan Clara GonzalezDorado Most Doubles Team Wins Players Year Wins Randolph/Meijer Hanusz/Randolph Cotuna/Housley Duncan/C. GonzalezDorado Best Doubles Team Winning Pct. (Min. 5 wins) Players Year Record Pct. Randolph/Meijer Cotuna/Housley Duncan/Winner CAREER RECORDS Most Singles Wins Player Years Wins Jonita Randolph Andreea Cotuna Dina Senkina Clara GonzalezDorado Best Singles Winning Pct. Player Years Record Pct. Dina Senkina Chanell Meijer Jonita Randolph Most Doubles Wins Player Years Wins Jonita Randolph Clara GonzalezDorado Chanell Meijer Nichole Duncan Best Doubles Team Winning Pct. (Min. 10 matches) Player Years Record Pct. Randolph/Meijer Duncan/Winner Cotuna/Housley Martyna Hanusz Nichole Duncan Andreea Cotuna Jonita Randolph MEDIA GUIDE 29