For Immediate Release
April 5, 2008
Wellesley College Sports Information
Wellesley Tennis Ranked 8th Nationally
WELLESLEY, MA – The Wellesley College tennis team secured a top-10 ranking in the latest ITA Collegiate Rankings released on April 15th.
Wellesley is ranked eighth in the country in Division III and third in the region. The ranking is the lowest for a Wellesley team since the 1991 Blue held the seventh spot.
Wellesley tennis is currently 18-3 on the season, under head coach Christine Franek. The team won the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship this season as well as the 2008 Seven Sisters Tournament Title, completing four-year sweeps of both honors. Their NEWMAC title also qualifies the team for a spot in the upcoming NCAA Championships.
Wellesley returns to action at home on Friday, April 18 with a 2:30pm match against #13 Tufts University.
ITA Collegiate Rankings
Women's NCAA Division III
April 15, 2008
1. Washington & Lee University
2. Williams College
3. Amherst College
4. Emory University
5. Denison University
6. DePauw University
7. University of Mary Washington
8. Wellesley College
9. Carnegie Mellon University
10. Univ. of Redlands
11. Middlebury College
12. Pomona-Pitzer Colleges
13. Tufts University
14. Washington University in St. Louis
15. Gustavus Adolphus College
16. Bowdoin College
17. Vassar College
18. Trinity University (Texas)
19. Univ. of the South
20. Coe College
21. Johns Hopkins University
22. Wheaton College (Illinois)
23. UC Santa Cruz
24. Chapman University
25. Kenyon College
26. College of New Jersey
27. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
28. The University of Texas at Tyler
29. Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater
30. Univ. of Chicago