NCAA Women's Tennis Championship
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The NCAA Women's Tennis Championship is the National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

's tennis tournament to determine the Team Championships, Singles Championships, and Doubles Championships in Women's Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

. It was started in 1982.

2009 Division tournament

After two rounds, Round of 16: (May 15 at Texas A&M) – Northwestern (27-1) vs. Fresno St. (24-5); California (19-4) vs. Georgia Tech (18-7); Baylor (26-4) vs. Stanford (19-4); Notre Dame (26-4) vs. Clemson (19-7); UCLA (19-6) vs. Miami (Fla.) (25-4); Arkansas (15-7) vs. Duke (25-3); South Carolina (16-10) vs. Washington (18-7); Florida (16-9) vs. Georgia (25-2).

Winners in the Round of 16 were: No. 4 Baylor, (8) California, (3) Duke, (6) Miami (FL), Northwestern, (5) Notre Dame, (2) Georgia, South Carolina.

Final Four teams are: No. 3 Duke, which defeated No. 6 Miami (FL), 4-1; No. 2 Georgia, defeated South Carolina, 4-3; No. 8 California, defeated No. 1 Northwestern; No. 5 Notre Dame, defeated No. 4 Baylor. Duke will play Georgia and California will play Notre Dame in the semifinals on Monday, May 18, 2009.

Championship Match teams are: No. 3 Duke, which defeated No. 2 Georgia, 5-2, and No. 8 California, which defeated No. 5 Notre Dame, 4-2, making one Pacific-10 conference team in both the men's and women's finals.

In the championship match, Duke swept California, 4-0, to win its first ever team national championship.

Division I winners

Year Team champion Singles champion Doubles champions
1982 Stanford
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 
Alycia Moulton
Alycia Moulton
Alycia Moulton is a former professional tennis player.Moulton was active on the WTA tour from 1978 to 1988. Her powerful game brought her two singles title in 1983 and five doubles titles. She twice defeated Helena Suková in an overall 76-99 career singles record...

, Stanford
Heather Ludloff and Lynn Lewis, UCLA
1983 Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

 
Beth Herr, Southern California Louise Allen and Gretchen Rush, Trinity (Tex.)
1984 Stanford Lisa Spain, Georgia Elise Burgin
Elise Burgin
Elise Burgin was an American tennis player. Her highest ranking was # 22.-Tennis career:Before playing professionally, Burgin was an outstanding singles and doubles player at Stanford University...

 and Linda Gates, Stanford
1985 Southern California Linda Gates, Stanford Leigh Ann Eldredge and Linda Gates, Stanford
1986 Stanford Patty Fendick
Patty Fendick
Patty Fendick is a former professional women's tennis player and is the current head women's tennis coach at the University of Texas.She was born on March 31, 1965 in Sacramento, California and played collegiately at Stanford University, where the team won the NCAA title three times...

, Stanford
Lise Gregory and Ronni Reis, Miami (Fla.)
1987 Stanford Patty Fendick, Stanford Katrina Adams and Diane Donnelly, Northwestern
1988 Stanford Shaun Stafford, Florida Allyson Cooper and Stella Sampras, UCLA
1989 Stanford Sandra Birch, Stanford Jackie Holden and Claire Pollard, Mississippi St.
1990 Stanford Debbie Graham, Stanford Meredith McGrath and Teri Whitlinger, Stanford
1991 Stanford Sandra Birch, Stanford Jillian Alexander and Nicole Arendt
Nicole Arendt
Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...

, Florida
1992 Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...

, Florida
Mamie Ceniza and Iwalani McCalla, UCLA
1993 Texas
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

 
Lisa Raymond, Florida Alix Creek and Michelle Oldham, Arizona
1994 Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...

 
Angela Lettiere, Georgia Rebecca Jensen and Nora Koves, Kansas
1995 Texas Keri Phebus, UCLA Keri Phebus and Susie Starrett, UCLA
1996 Florida Jill Craybas
Jill Craybas
- Early years :Craybas was born in Providence, Rhode Island. She received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, where she played for coach Andy Brandi's Florida Gators women's tennis team in National Collegiate Athletics Association competition from 1993 to...

, Florida
Dawn Buth and Stephanie Nickitas, Florida
1997 Stanford Lilia Osterloh
Lilia Osterloh
Lilia Osterloh is a tennis player from the United States, who started a professional career in August 1997....

, Stanford
Dawn Buth and Stephanie Nickitas, Florida
1998 Florida Vanessa Webb, Duke Amanda Augustus and Amy Jensen, California
1999 Stanford Zuzana Lesenarova, San Diego Amanda Augustus and Amy Jensen, California
2000 Georgia Laura Granville
Laura Granville
Laura Granville is an American professional tennis player. During the two years she spent at Stanford University, she set the record for most consecutive singles victories with 58. As of November 17, 2008, she is ranked World No...

, Stanford
Claire Curran
Claire Curran
Claire Curran is an ex-professional female tennis player.Curran represented both Great Britain and Ireland in the Fed Cup during her career. She has a Fed Cup win-loss record of 20–7. She specialised primarily in doubles and reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No.89...

 and Amy Jensen, California
2001 Stanford Laura Granville, Stanford Whitney Laiho and Jessica Lehnhoff, Florida
2002 Stanford Bea Bielik, Wake Forest Lauren Kalvaria and Gabriela Lastra, Stanford
2003 Florida Amber Liu
Amber Liu
Amber Christine Liu Chang is a former American professional tennis player and the wife of fellow tennis pro Michael Chang. At Stanford University, she was a two-time NCAA singles champion in 2003 and 2004. Her highest ranking was No. 241 in singles and No...

, Stanford
Christina Fusano and Raquel Kops-Jones,
California
2004 Stanford Amber Liu, Stanford Daniela Bercek and Lauren Fisher, UCLA
2005 Stanford Zuzana Zemenova, Baylor Alice Barnes and Erin Burdette, Stanford
2006 Stanford Suzi Babos, California Cristelle Grier and Alexis Prousis, Northwestern
2007 Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

 
Audra Cohen
Audra Cohen
Audra Marie Cohen is a right-handed American 5' 9" professional tennis player with a two-handed backhand, living in Plantation, Florida, who was the # 1 collegiate female tennis player in the United States in 2007...

, Miami
Sara Anundsen and Jenna Long, North Carolina
2008 UCLA
UCLA Bruins
The UCLA Bruins are the sports teams for University of California, Los Angeles . The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pacific-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation . For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I...

Amanda McDowell, Georgia Tech Tracey Lin and Riza Zalameda, UCLA
2009 Duke
Duke Blue Devils
Duke University's 26 varsity sports teams, known as the Blue Devils, compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry...

Mallory Cecil, Duke Mari Andersson and Jana Juricova, California
2010 Stanford
Stanford Cardinal
The Stanford Cardinal is the nickname of the athletic teams at Stanford University.-Nickname and mascot history:Following its win over Cal in the first-ever Big Game in 1892, the color cardinal was picked as the primary color of Stanford's athletic teams...

Chelsey Gullickson
Chelsey Gullickson
Chelsey Gullickson is an American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 399, which she reached on June 9, 2008. Her career high in doubles is 665, which she reached on July 7, 2008...

, Georgia
Hilary Barte and Lindsay Burdette, Stanford
2011 Florida Jana Juricova, California Hilary Barte and Mallory Burdette, Stanford

Division II – Team Champions

  • 1982 Cal St. Northridge
    California State University, Northridge
    California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States....

  • 1983 Chattanooga
    University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a public university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The University, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System; the others being in...

  • 1984 Chattanooga
  • 1985 Chattanooga
  • 1986 SIU Edwardsville
    Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, commonly abbreviated SIUE, is a four-year coed public university in Edwardsville, Illinois about from St. Louis, Missouri. SIUE was established in 1957 as an extension of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is the younger of the two largest...

  • 1987 SIU Edwardsville
  • 1988 SIU Edwardsville
  • 1989 SIU Edwardsville

  • 1990 UC Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

  • 1991 Cal Poly Pomona
    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, or Cal Poly Pomona, is a public university located in Pomona, California, United States...

  • 1992 Cal Poly Pomona
  • 1993 UC Davis
  • 1994 North Florida
    University of North Florida
    The University of North Florida is a public university located in Jacksonville, Florida. A member institution of the State University System of Florida, the university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s...

  • 1995 Armstrong Atlantic
    Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Armstrong Atlantic State University, also referred to as Armstrong Atlantic, Armstrong, or simply AASU, is a four-year public university part of the University System of Georgia. It is located on a campus in suburban Savannah, Georgia, United States...

  • 1996 Armstrong Atlantic
  • 1997 Lynn
    Lynn University
    Lynn University is a private, non-profit university in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 1962.The university currently hosts students from 40 states and 90 nations...

  • 1998 Lynn
  • 1999 BYU-Hawaii
    Brigham Young University Hawaii
    Brigham Young University–Hawaii is a private university located in Laie, Hawaii. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....


  • 2000 BYU-Hawaii
  • 2001 Lynn
  • 2002 BYU-Hawaii
  • 2003 BYU-Hawaii
  • 2004 BYU-Hawaii
  • 2005 Armstrong Atlantic
  • 2006 BYU-Hawaii
  • 2007 BYU-Hawaii
  • 2008 Armstrong Atlantic
  • 2009 Armstrong Atlantic
  • 2010 Armstrong Atlantic
  • 2011 Barry
    Barry University
    Barry University is a private, Catholic university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb north of Downtown Miami. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami....



Division III – Team Champions

  • 1982 Occidental
    Occidental College
    Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...

  • 1983 Principia
    The Principia
    The Principia is an educational institution for Christian Scientists located on two campuses in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Principia School, located in West St. Louis County, serves students from early childhood through high school...

  • 1984 Davidson
    Davidson College
    Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. The college has graduated 23 Rhodes Scholars and is consistently ranked in the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country by U.S. News and World Report magazine, although it has recently dropped to 11th in U.S. News...

  • 1985 UC San Diego
    University of California, San Diego
    The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

  • 1986 TCNJ
    The College of New Jersey
    The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Trenton....

  • 1987 UC San Diego
  • 1988 Mary Washington
    University of Mary Washington
    The University of Mary Washington is a public, coeducational liberal arts college located in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. Founded in 1908 by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a normal school, during much of the twentieth century it was part of the University of Virginia, until...

  • 1989 UC San Diego

  • 1990 Gust. Adolphus
    Gustavus Adolphus College
    Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in St. Peter, Minnesota, United States. A coeducational, four-year, residential institution, it was founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans. To this day the school is firmly...

  • 1991 Mary Washington
  • 1992 Pomona-Pitzer
  • 1993 Kenyon
    Kenyon College
    Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

  • 1994 UC San Diego
  • 1995 Kenyon
  • 1996 Emory
    Emory University
    Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...

  • 1997 Kenyon
  • 1998 Skidmore
    Skidmore College
    Skidmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,500 students. The college is located in the town of Saratoga Springs, New York State....

  • 1999 Amherst
    Amherst College
    Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...


  • 2000 Trinity (Tex)
    Trinity University (Texas)
    Trinity University is a private, independent, primarily undergraduate, university in San Antonio, Texas. Its campus is located in the Monte Vista Historic District and adjacent to Brackenridge Park....

  • 2001 Williams
    Williams College
    Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this...

  • 2002 Williams
  • 2003 Emory
  • 2004 Emory
  • 2005 Emory
  • 2006 Emory
  • 2007 Washington and Lee
    Washington and Lee University
    Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States.The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location. In 1776 it was renamed Liberty Hall in a burst of...

  • 2008 Williams College
  • 2009 Williams College
  • 2010 Williams College
  • 2011 Williams College


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