October 10, 2002

MOUNT VERNON, IOWA . . . The 2002 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) Women’s Tennis Championship will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 11-12, at the Coe College and Veterans Park Tennis Courts in Cedar Rapids. Should weather force the Championship indoors, matches will be played at the Clark Racket Center at Coe and Westfield Tennis Club. Loras College serves as the host of this year’s Championship.

New Format: The format of the Women’s Tennis Championship has changed from previous years. This year a dual team championship will be played. Previously, an individual flighted tournament determined the IIAC champion.

2002 Seeds: #1 – Cornell, #2 – Luther, #3 – Loras, #4 – Coe, #5 – Simpson, #6 – Central, #7 – Buena Vista, #8 – Wartburg, #9 – Upper Iowa, #10 - Dubuque

Championship Schedule: Following is the schedule for the 2002 Women’s Tennis Championship.

Recap of 2001: In 2001, Cornell College ended Luther College’s 19-year run as IIAC Champion. Cornell won four of six singles flights to finish with 81 points. Luther had two doubles champions and three singles runners-up for 75 points.

Central College (72 points) finished third followed by Loras College (69), Coe College (52), Wartburg (49), Simpson (35), Buena Vista (31), Upper Iowa (18) and Dubuque (10).

Individually, five of the six singles champions from 2001 are back as are four members of doubles champion teams. Number one singles champion and Conference MVP Sarah Leavenworth (West Des Moines, Iowa/Valley HS) leads a group of four returning champions to the Cornell line-up. Stacey Barth (Littleton, Colo./Heritage HS) won #4 singles, Ingrid Spiegel (Lemont, Ill./Providence Catholic HS) won #5 singles and Tara Alcazar (Greeley, Colo./Greeley Central HS) won #6 singles. Central’s Emilie Larson (Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge HS) was the #3 singles champion.

Loras’ Katherine Trevino (Fort Dodge, Iowa/St. Edmonds HS) and Luther’s Lindsay Hagen (Wells, Minn./United South Central HS), were champions at #1 and #2 doubles, respectively but lost their partners to graduation (Trevino lost Anna Kramer and Hagen lost Rachel Horstman). Luther’s Jacie Haroldson (Kiester, Minn./United South Central HS) and Amanda Roiger (Dundas, Minn./Northfield HS) won #3 doubles.

Also back this season is 2000 IIAC MVP Lindsey Pfalmer (Colorado Springs, Colo./Palmer HS) of Cornell who missed the 2001 season due to injury.

Each school’s projected line-up and the individuals records follow.

Team-by-Team Projected Line-ups
(Note: doubles records listed for each individual overall; the record when the pair played together is listed in parenthesis)

#7 Buena Vista University Beavers
2002 Record – 2-5 overall, 2-5 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 8th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Kristi Busse 0-6
# 2 Dani Martinez 3-3
# 3 Jess Fortin 1-5
# 4 Shelli Smith 2-4
# 5 Courtney Johnson 2-2
# 6 Yuvanca Russ 2-0
Doubles
# 1 Martinez/Busse 1-6/1-6 (1-6)
# 2 Smith/Fortin 3-3/3-4 (2-1)
# 3 Johnson/Laura Matic 1-3/2-4 (1-2)

# 6 Central College Dutch
2002 Record – 6-7 overall, 3-4 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 3rd place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Tracey Stursma 9-4
# 2 Emilie Larson 8-5
# 3 Michelle Van Vark 8-5
# 4 Ellen Gallinger 10-3
# 5 Danielle Dowling 4-8
# 6 Jacquelyn Johnson 3-9
Doubles
# 1 Larson/Van Vark 6-8/5-8 (1-3)
# 2 Stursma/Gallinger 5-8/9-5 (4-1)
# 3 Dowling/Johnson 2-6/2-8 (1-4)

# 4 Coe College Kohawks
2002 Record – 10-3 overall, 6-2 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 5th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Ashley Peterson 9-1
# 2 Luyre Hupfer 6-3
# 3 Lauren Clifford 2-5
# 4 Lindsay Chase 7-3
# 5 Jamie Sheridan 7-3
# 6 Jessie Williams 5-4
Doubles
# 1 Hupfer/Peterson 7-4/7-4 (7-4)
# 2 Chase/Clifford 10-2/8-2 (8-2)
# 3 Sheridan/Ashley Hubler 7-4/8-4 (7-4)

#1 Cornell College Rams
2002 Record – 9-1 overall, 6-0 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 1st place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Lindsey Pfalmer 10-1
# 2 Sarah Leavenworth 8-1
# 3 Marie Schutte 12-3
# 4 Stacey Barth 4-6
# 5 Steph Froehlich 7-3
# 6 Ingrid Spiegel 9-2
Doubles
# 1 Pfalmer/Froehlich 15-2/14-2 (14-2)
# 2 Leavenworth/Schutte 7-0/12-0 (6-0)
# 3 Barth/Spiegel 11-4/10-5 (7-3)

# 10 University of Dubuque Spartans
2002 Record – 0-7 overall, 0-4 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 10th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Elizabeth Freiburger 1-6
# 2 Amanda Tonne 0-7
# 3 Katharine Scercario 1-4
# 4 Michelle Ragland 0-7
# 5 Amanda Thompson 0-7
# 6 Alaina Lindsey 0-1
Doubles
# 1 Freiburger/Tonne (0-7)
# 2 Scecario/Ragland (0-4)
# 3 Thompson/Lindsey (0-1)

# 3 Loras College Duhawks
2002 Record – 11-3 overall, 6-2 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 4th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Katherine Trevino 5-3
# 2 Michelle Stecher 9-4
# 3 Natalia Fernandez 7-2
# 4 Andrea Villa 5-7
# 5 Margaret Arendt 6-6
# 6 Nora Lawrenson 7-6
Doubles
# 1 Trevino/Stecher 5-3/8-5 (5-3)
# 2 Fernandez/Villa 7-2/8-3 (6-1)
# 3 Arendt/Lawrenson 6-5/8-5 (3-3)

# 2 Luther College Norse
2002 Record – 3-2 overall, 3-1 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 2nd place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Miriam Blom 7-2
#2-4 * Tasha Allemang 4-5
           Lindsay Hagen 6-4
           Jacie Haroldson 7-3
# 5-6 ** Kirsten Madsen 5-2
          Amanda Roiger 10-2
          Tara Huinker 9-2
Doubles
# 1 Blom/Huinker (6-2)
# 2 Hagen/Andrea Trimble (7-3)
# 3 Haroldson/Roiger or Madsen (2-0)

* - Allemang, Hagen and Haroldson will play #2, #3 and #4 singles in an order to be determined
** - Madsen, Roiger and Huinker will play #5 and #6 singles in an order to be determined

# 5 Simpson College Storm
2002 Record – 9-4 overall, 7-4 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 7th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Sherry Warren 6-5
# 2 Carrie Brannen 6-2
# 3 Tracy Schiltz 9-2
# 4 Trisha Buckley 10-3
# 5 Emily DeBolt 8-2
# 6 Brooke Beaman 6-3
Doubles
# 1 Warren/Brannen 7-5/8-4 (4-2)
# 2 Schiltz/Amanda Byas 6-6/6-6 (6-6)
# 3 Beaman/DeBolt 10-3/9-4 (6-1)

# 9 Upper Iowa University Peacocks
2002 Record – 1-7 overall, 1-6 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 9th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Meskerem Birru 3-3
# 2 Kristie Calvert 1-6
# 3 Margaret Carver 0-7
# 4 Jenny Lawler 1-6
# 5 Jeanette Pettlon 1-6
# 6 Angie Webber 0-3
Doubles
# 1 Birru/Calvert 1-5/1-6 (0-5)
# 2 Carver/Lawler 1-6/1-6 (0-4)
# 3 Pettlon/Crystal Johnson 1-6/0-1 (0-1)

# 8 Wartburg College Knights
2002 Record – 2-8 overall, 2-8 IIAC
2001 Championship Finish – 6th place

Pos. Name (s) Record
Singles
# 1 Sara Kammerer 4-5
# 2 Kelly Dotson 2-7
# 3 Anna Johnson 3-6
# 4 Kim Warren 1-8
# 5 Tomoko Shibuya 0-4
# 6 Lori Hammerand 2-7
Doubles
# 1 Kammerer/Dotson 3-7/3-7 (3-7)
# 2 Johnson/Shibuya 2-8/1-5 (1-3)
# 3 Warren/Melissa Gates 3-7/4-6 (2-2)

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