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April 28, 2010

WHAT:  No. 18 Texas (15-4, 10-1 Big 12) begins postseason play this week at the Big 12 Championships.  UT is hosting the tournament for the third time in the event’s 14-year history.  

WHEN: Quarterfinals – Friday, April 30 – 3 p.m. Central; Texas will take on the winner of Thursday’s match featuring seventh-seeded Oklahoma State against 10th-seeded Iowa State.  Texas defeated the Cowgirls and the Cyclones during the regular season.

WHERE:  Penick-Allison Tennis Center – Austin, Texas

LAST TIME OUT:  Texas finished the regular season with a victorious weekend road swing at Missouri and Colorado.  UT defeated Missouri by a 6-1 count on April 23 and knocked off Colorado by a 5-2 count on April 25.

BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPS HISTORY
Texas has reached the finals at the Big 12 Championships 12 of 13 times and has won the event a league-leading seven times.  UT’s most recently won the Big 12 Championship in 2005, when the Horns last hosted the event at UT’s Penick-Allison Tennis Center. 

ITA RANKINGS UPDATE
Singles
24. Aeriel Ellis (Texas)
63. Krista Damico (Texas)
76. Vanja Corovic (Texas)

Doubles
36. Vanja Corovic/Aeriel Ellis (Texas)

DAMICO, CRADDOCK AND LANCASTER EARN BIG 12 TITLES
Sarah Lancaster and Krista Damico won Big 12 individual titles by way of their regular season conference records, as did the doubles tandem of Damico and Amanda Craddock. 

Lancaster is the Big 12 champion at No. 5 singles after going 11-0 in league play.  Damico earns the individual title at No. 3 singles at 9-2, and Damico and Craddock won the title at No. 2 doubles with a 9-2 overall record. 

LONGHORNS MOVE UP IN ITA TEAM RANKINGS
Texas moved from No. 19 to No 18 in this week’s ITA team rankings, marking its highest position since January 2009. 
 
Texas moved into the ITA top-25 at No. 20 on April 13 on the strength of its 6-1 victory over then-No. 5 Northwestern on April 10.  It marked UT’s first victory over an ITA top-five opponent since February 2006, when the Horns knocked off Georgia Tech at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship. 

LANCASTER CONTINUES DOMINANCE OF BIG 12 FOES
Texas senior Sarah Lancaster maintained her excellence in conference play over the weekend with a pair of wins Missouri and Colorado.  Lancaster finished Big 12 play at a perfect 11-0.  She boasts a 40-1 record in Big 12 regular season matches through her four seasons in Austin.   

ELLIS TABBED BIG 12 CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK
The Big 12 Conference selected Texas freshman Aeriel Ellis on Tuesday, April 13 as its women’s tennis co-player of the week after she went undefeated in singles and doubles in the Horns’ win over No. 5 Northwestern.  Ellis shared the award with Texas A&M’s Nazari Urbina.

Ellis upset Northwestern’s 13th-ranked Maria Mosolova at No. 1 singles to clinch the Longhorns’ 6-1 victory over the fifth-ranked Wildcats.  Ellis also helped the Horns clinch the doubles point when she teamed up with Vanja Corovic to post an 8-5 win over NU’s 23rd-ranked duo of Lauren Lui and Mosolova at No. 1 doubles.

THE 2009-10 LONGHORNS
Under fifth-year head coach Patty Fendick-McCain, the Longhorns return five of six singles and doubles starters from the 2009 squad that reached the finals at the Big 12 Championships and the round of 32 at the NCAA Championships.

Corovic returns after earning All-Big 12 singles honors in each of her three seasons in Austin.  Senior Sarah Lancaster posted a 19-3 dual-match record last season and went unbeaten in conference play.  Lancaster has won 15 of her last 16 singles contests.   

Sophomore Krista Damico brought a 13-4 overall fall singles record into the dual-match season.  Damico was selected as the Big 12 Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Week on April 6 after going 4-0 in her singles and doubles contests at Oklahoma State and Oklahoma. 

Freshman Aeriel Ellis turned in a fall season that produced appearances in the main singles draws at the ITA All-American Championships and the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships.  Ellis totaled a 16-5 singles mark in the fall.