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2X ACC Champion
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Nancy Harris Head Coach • 15th Season
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In her 15th season at the helm of the Clemson women’s tennis program, Nancy Harris has established Clemson as one of the consistently excellent national powers. Over the past ten seasons, Harris has strung together one of the finest runs of any coach anywhere in the country. Her resume reads like what’s-what of collegiate tennis: The nation’s number-one player and doubles team, two team final fours, seven NCAA Sweet 16s, and top-20 finishes in each season, and a former singles player to knock off the World’s #1 player in the US Open. Additionally, her players constantly compete for national tournament titles, and former players have gone on to stellar pro careers. Harris has now led Clemson to 12 NCAA Team Tournament appearances in her 14 years with the program. After a 21-11 season in 2010, she has coached the Tigers to 238 wins against 129 losses and boasts a 90-42 record in regular season ACC matches. She has coached eight singles players to 18 appearances at the NCAA Singles Championships and has led a Tiger doubles team to the national doubles tournament in each of the past eight seasons, including a runner-up finish in 2011. Fourteen of Harris’ student-athletes have been named to the All-ACC team 25 times and seven Tiger singles players and five doubles teams have claimed conference flight championships during her tenure. The 2010 season turned into another special campaign early on, as Clemson knocked off #4 Georgia on the road, and advanced against two tough ranked teams in the National Indoor Championships within the season’s first two weeks. After blowing through ACC competition at 9-2, which included wins over #7 Duke, Clemson marched to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament, before making an ninth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. Clemson advanced to the Sweet 16, in part by again knocking off then-#19 Georgia in the NCAA second round, for the fourth straight season. The Tigers fell to the eventual national champion Stanford Cardinal, but the 24-6 final mark was one of the finest in team history. Individually, Keri Wong, Josipa Bek, and Ina Hadziselimovic were named to the All-ACC team and Bek and Hadziselimovic were named All-Americans for the second straight season. Four Tigers finished the season in the final ITA rankings, and freshman Nelly Ciolkowski was named the ITA Carolina Region Rookie of the YEar after compiling a 29-7 record. It was just another spectacular season for Harris, who has made a habit of excellent performances.
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Four players from the 2009 squad were named All-America giving Harris and Clemson the most of any nationally. The four honorees were also a program high and quite an accomplishment for a team with just eight members. In singles, the Tigers were the only team in the country to boast two players ranked in the top 15 during the regular season as Ani Mijacika remained a constant at the top of the polls and a stellar fall season quickly propelled Josipa Bek into the top 10. Both received bids to the NCAA Singles Championships and won their first-round matches. Bek reached the round of 16 in singles and advanced to the quarterfinals in the national doubles tournament with Ina Hadziselimovic to earn All-America status. Under Harris’ guidance, Bek became the first freshman in school history to be named an All-American in singles and doubles. Harris led Clemson to a third straight Sweet 16 appearance and the program’s eighth consecutive NCAA tournament in 2009. The Tigers posted a 19-8 overall record and finished third in the ACC with a 9-2 record. They spent every week ranked in the top 15 and were ranked 11th in the final poll. Harris coached Mijacika back into the number-one spot in the singles poll and she remained atop the rankings for six straight weeks. With Mijacika headlining the group at #4, four players were ranked in the final ITA singles rankings for the second straight season and just the third time in school history. Bek finished the year at #13 to give Harris and Clemson two players ranked in the top 15 for the first time ever. A pair of doubles teams also were also listed in the final rankings. In 2008, the Tigers, seeded fourth, won their second conference title under Harris, knocking off the top two seeds in the tournament en route to the crown. Clemson’s win over number-one seed and second-ranked Georgia Tech in the semifinals was the program’s great upset in history. Harris helped then-sophomore Ani Mijacika make individual history in 2008 as well. On Feb. 20, Mijacika became the first Clemson tennis player, man or woman, to rise to the #1 national ranking. She spent every week of the spring in the poll’s top five and finished the season at #2. The 2008 Clemson team completed one of the greatest turn-arounds in program history, rallying from a 5-9 record on Mar. 22 to win the final seven matches of the regular season and the ACC Championship. The Tigers earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament for the eighth consecutive season and played host to their fifth straight