Six from @HurricaneTennis in Final Rankings
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Six members of the University of Miami women’s tennis team are featured in the final Oracle/ITA rankings of the season, released Wednesday afternoon.
Miami is one of just 10 schools in the nation with six different players ranked in either singles or doubles, and the half dozen equals the most in program history, a mark first recorded last season. With five ranked singles players, the Hurricanes are tied for the fourth-most in the country and also set a new program record.
NCAA Singles Championship semifinalist Stephanie Wagner paces the Hurricanes in the singles rankings, completing her season ranked No. 9 in the country. Wagner, the recipient of the ITA National Player to Watch award, was in the top 11 all season and finished as the second-highest ranked junior in the nation.
In the quarterfinals of the NCAA Singles Championship, Wagner defeated UCLA’s Robin Anderson, who was ranked No. 1 then and also concluded the season in the top overall spot.
ACC Freshman of the Year Sinead Lohan made a huge jump in the rankings after her run to the NCAA Singles Championship quarterfinals. Lohan rose 17 spots and checks in at No. 20 nationally, the highest mark of her career. The Waterford, Ireland native spent the whole season in the top 45 and completed the year as the third-highest ranked freshman in the country and one of just four in the top 50.
Junior Clementina Riobueno holds the No. 87 spot on the singles list and was in the top 90 all year long. Freshman Wendy Zhang comes in at No. 101 and senior Lina Lileikite is No. 112, with both completing their seasons ranked wire-to-wire. Lileikite was ranked at the end of all four of her seasons as a Hurricane.
In the Southeast Region rankings, Wagner finished third and Lohan was just two spots behind, placing fifth. Miami is atop the ACC with five players nationally ranked in singles, and only three schools in the country had more.
In doubles, the Hurricanes are one of 22 teams with multiple ranked pairs. NCAA Doubles Championship participants Lileikite and Wagner finished the season at No. 21 and spent the whole year in the top 25. Wagner is one of 25 players, male or female, to finish in the top 25 in both singles and doubles. Fifteen of those 25 are on the women’s side.
Riobueno and senior Monique Albuquerque jumped 14 spots in the final release and ended 2015 at No. 58 in doubles. They were nationally ranked the entire season.
Both pairs finished in the top 10 in the Southeast Region, with Lileikite/Wagner sixth and Albuquerque/Riobueno ninth. With Lileikite, Riobueno and Wagner ranked nationally in singles and doubles, the Hurricanes are one of 13 teams in the country, and one of two in the ACC, with three players on both lists.
Miami is one of just eight schools in the nation, and the only one in the ACC, with five-plus ranked singles players and multiple ranked doubles pairs. Just 10 schools even have at least four players ranked in singles and multiple duos ranked in doubles.
The Hurricanes went 18-7 (12-2 ACC) in 2015 and reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Team Championship for the 10th consecutive season.
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