Teams: Women's Tennis: Schedule & Results

McCOOEY PLAYS INTO SEMI-FINALS AT NCAA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPS

COLLEGE WOMEN'S TENNIS RESULTS
NCAA Singles Championships
At Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, MN)
Friday-Saturday, May 16-17, 2008

Match Scores

Meghan McCooey in action at the NCAA Singles Championships

SAINT PETER, MINN. -- Tufts University sophomore Meghan McCooey (Cumberland, RI) was the surprise of the NCAA Singles Championships hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College this weekend. She won three matches to advance to the NCAA semi-finals before losing.

McCooey made a big entry into her first NCAA Singles competition on Friday, defeating second seed Katie Tabb from Washington & Lee in the first round. After Tabb won the first set easily 6-1, McCooey rallied to win the match with 7-5 and 6-2 victories. In second-round action later on Friday, McCooey advanced easily past Pomona-Pitzer College's Rebecca Lange 6-2 and 6-4. That victory put McCooey in the national quarter-finals, thereby earning her All-American honors for the season.

On Saturday, McCooey kept it going with a two-set (7-5, 6-3) win over Vassar College's Nicole Pontee. That set up a national semi-final match between McCooey and fifth-seed Cary Gibson from Williams College on Saturday, which Gibson took 6-3, 6-2. The loss finished an outstanding season for McCooey with a 24-8 record. In the fall she won the New England #2 doubles championship with Hayley Young and this spring she was an All-New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) First Team selection.

Jumbo first-year Julia Browne (Old Brookville, NY), the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Rookie of the Year this spring, was also in action at the NCAA Singles Championships. She had a strong opening win against Janelle Arita from Depauw, 6-0, 5-7, 6-4. However, she went up against top seed Siobhan Finicane from Pomona-Pitzer in the round of 16 and lost 6-2, 6-0.

Gibson will play Finicane for the NCAA Singles title on Sunday.

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