W. Tennis Earns 12th Straight Top-15 Finish
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The ITA released its final rankings of the 2015 season Tuesday afternoon and the University of Miami women’s tennis took the No. 15 spot in the nation.
This marks the 12th consecutive season the Hurricanes have finished in the top 15 and the 13th year in a row Miami has landed in the final top 25. The entire stretch has come under the direction of Paige Yaroshuk-Tews, who just wrapped up her 14th season as the team’s head coach.
Yaroshuk-Tews also guided Miami (18-7, 12-2 ACC) to its 10th straight Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA Team Championship and the Hurricanes hosted the first two rounds of the tournament for the 11th year in a row.
In addition, Miami won 17-plus matches and lost seven or fewer for the 13th consecutive year. This was also the 11th straight year—each one Miami has been in the Atlantic Coast Conference—the Hurricanes finished in the top four in the ACC, taking the No. 2 position in 2015.
A pair of streaks Miami extended this year date back beyond Yaroshuk-Tews’ tenure, as the program has now both made the NCAA Team Championship and finished at least .500 for 20 consecutive seasons.
Miami was one of six ACC schools to close the 2015 season in the top 25, good for the second most of any conference. All six teams finished in the top 20, the most of any league in the nation.
The Hurricanes posted six wins over teams in the final top 25, with road wins at No. 9 Virginia and No. 20 Georgia Tech, a neutral site victory against No. 14 Alabama, and home wins over No. 18 Clemson, No. 19 Duke, and No. 24 Ole Miss. Miami dropped more than one point in just two of those six matches and conceded three in only one.
Ten of the Hurricanes’ 18 victories this year came against teams that finished the season in the top 50. Additionally, Miami concluded the season ranked third in the Southeast Region.
The final singles and doubles national rankings will be released Wednesday, June 3. Miami had two players, freshman Sinead Lohan and junior Stephanie Wagner, reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championship, with Wagner advancing to the Final Four.
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