The University Athletic Association has announced its 30th Anniversary Women's Tennis Team. Forty-three student-athletes earned the honor, including 30 from Emory University, which has captured 28 of the first 30 UAA championships.
UAA Women's Tennis 30th Anniversary Release
The team consists of each student-athlete who was named Most Valuable Player or accumulated five or more points with two points awarded for All-Association first-team singles recognition, and one point for second-team singles honors in her career. Players who captured the top-flight singles title in years preceding the designation of a Most Valuable Player (1989-93) were also named to the team.
Among those honored is Mary Ellen Gordon of Emory, who was named Most Valuable Player four consecutive times from 2001-04 and captured back-to-back NCAA Division III individual titles in 2003 and 2004. Gabrielle Clark of the Eagles was named to the All-Association first team all four years and earned UAA Most Valuable Player honors three times (2011, 2013-14). She also won a pair of NCAA singles titles.
The other honorees to earn multiple Most Valuable Player recognition were Amy Staloch of Carnegie Mellon University, Jessica Levy of Emory, and Kendra Higgins of the University of Chicago.
Three other Emory Most Valuable Players joined Gordon and Clark as four-time All-Association selections, including 1996 Most Valuable Player Amy Smith, who accomplished the feat from 1993-96 and is now Amy Bryant, the Eagles' head coach. 2000 Most Valuable Player Julie Sterner received All-Association honors each year from 1997-2000, while the 2005 Most Valuable Player Carina Alberelli garnered All-Association accolades from 2002-05.
Other four-year honorees from Emory were Jill Tobin (1989-92), Megan Bern (1994-97), Madison Gordon (2013-16), Beatrice Rosen (2013-16). Mandy Jackson of the Eagles was also named to the 30th Anniversary Women's Basketball Team.
In 30 years, 39 teams from the UAA have finished in the top-eight with 22 advancing to at least the NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championship Final Four. Emory has won seven national championships, including in 2016, and has reached the NCAA final each of the past five seasons. The Eagles have finished second five times, while Chicago placed second in 2012.
All-UAA 30th Anniversary Women's Tennis Team
Carina Alberelli, Emory
Megan Bern, Emory
Jamie Chan, Emory
Gabrielle Clark, Emory
Zahra Dawson, Emory
Vindya Dayananda, Chicago
Melissa Goodman, Emory
Mary Ellen Gordon, Emory
Madison Gordon, Emory
Bridgette Harding, Emory
Kendra Higgins, Chicago
Rebecca Ho, Washington
Mandy Jackson, Emory
Nithya Kanagasegar, CWRU
Karen Kirschbom, Emory
Jennifer Kung, Chicago
Stefanie Leshaw, Emory
Jessica Levy, Emory
Jill Mazza, Rochester
Shannon McGlame, Emory
Debbie Michelson, Washington
Keri Mills, Carnegie Mellon
Margaret Moscato, Emory
Tshema Nash, Emory
Vanessa Pavia, Carnegie Mellon
Shilpa Reddy, Washington
Beatrice Rosen, Emory
Lindsay Reidenbach, Emory
Michelle Satterfield, Emory
Tracy Shub, Emory
Amy Smith, Emory
Amy Staloch, Carnegie Mellon
Julie Sterner, Emory
Katarina Su, Emory
Nicole Sullivan, Emory
Jolyn Taylor, Emory
Erin Terrell, Emory
Jill Tobin, Emory
Minh Tran, Brandeis
Carmen VacaGuzman, Chicago
Emily Warburg, Emory
Alexa Wilensky, Emory
Jordan Wylie, Emory