COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Five members of the Texas A&M women's tennis team are ranked in the Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Women's Division I Preseason Rankings, as announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Aggie senior Saska Gavrilovska will enter the fall season ranked a team-high and career-high No. 15 in singles. The Serbian ended the 2016 spring season ranked a then-career-high No. 23 after advancing to the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship.
Senior Rutuja Bhosale's No. 45 preseason singles ranking is her career high, bettering her then-career-high No. 50 ranking in last year's fall preseason rankings. Senior Rachel Pierson is No. 91, and junior Tina Bokhua, a transfer from the University of Colorado, is No. 102.
In addition, Pierson and junior partner Eva Paalma are No. 14 in the preseason doubles rankings.
Complete preseason individual rankings are available at ITATennis.com. The preseason team rankings, as well as the next individual rankings, will be published Jan. 5, 2017.
Second-year head coach Mark Weaver returns six players from last year's team that went 17-11 and finished with a No. 19 national ranking after advancing to the second round of the NCAA Championship before falling to eventual national champion Stanford. He also welcomes back fifth-year senior Stefania Hristov, who redshirted last spring after having shoulder surgery following the fall season.
Weaver also welcomes newcomers Bokhua, the 2015 ITA Mountain Region Rookie of the Year, Macarena Olivares, a junior transfer who was a two-time All-American in both singles and doubles at ASA College in Miami, and Margo Taylor, a sophomore transfer from the University of Tennessee.
The Aggies kick off the fall season Sept. 26-30 at the LTP Futures in Charleston, S.C.
Visit 12thMan.com for more information on Texas A&M women's tennis. Aggie fans also can keep up to date with the A&M women's tennis team on Twitter by following @AggieWTEN or on Facebook at Facebook.com/AggieWomensTennis.
Aggie senior Saska Gavrilovska will enter the fall season ranked a team-high and career-high No. 15 in singles. The Serbian ended the 2016 spring season ranked a then-career-high No. 23 after advancing to the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship.
Senior Rutuja Bhosale's No. 45 preseason singles ranking is her career high, bettering her then-career-high No. 50 ranking in last year's fall preseason rankings. Senior Rachel Pierson is No. 91, and junior Tina Bokhua, a transfer from the University of Colorado, is No. 102.
In addition, Pierson and junior partner Eva Paalma are No. 14 in the preseason doubles rankings.
Complete preseason individual rankings are available at ITATennis.com. The preseason team rankings, as well as the next individual rankings, will be published Jan. 5, 2017.
Second-year head coach Mark Weaver returns six players from last year's team that went 17-11 and finished with a No. 19 national ranking after advancing to the second round of the NCAA Championship before falling to eventual national champion Stanford. He also welcomes back fifth-year senior Stefania Hristov, who redshirted last spring after having shoulder surgery following the fall season.
Weaver also welcomes newcomers Bokhua, the 2015 ITA Mountain Region Rookie of the Year, Macarena Olivares, a junior transfer who was a two-time All-American in both singles and doubles at ASA College in Miami, and Margo Taylor, a sophomore transfer from the University of Tennessee.
The Aggies kick off the fall season Sept. 26-30 at the LTP Futures in Charleston, S.C.
Visit 12thMan.com for more information on Texas A&M women's tennis. Aggie fans also can keep up to date with the A&M women's tennis team on Twitter by following @AggieWTEN or on Facebook at Facebook.com/AggieWomensTennis.