2009-10 Women's Tennis Media Guide by Doug Meffley

NORTHWESTERN

SAMANTHA MURRAY Senior

LAUREN LUI Senior

O F F I C I A L

M E D I A

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R E C R U I T I N G

G U I D E

NORTHWESTERN WOMEN’S TENNIS

-TIME DEFENDING BIG TEN CHAMPIONS

2009

TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN

ITA NATIONAL INDOOR TEAM CHAMPIONS

MARIA MOSOLOVA

2009 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS NO. 1 OVERALL SEED

TABLE OF CONTENTS NORTHWESTERN WILDCAT WOMEN’S TENNIS

General information • 1-9 Quick Facts............................................. 1 2009-10 Roster/Pronunciation Guide..... 2 World-Class Facilities............................. 3 National Prominence........................... 4-5 ITA Indoor Team Championship............. 6 Big Ten Championships.......................... 7 NCAA Tournament Appearances............ 8 Big Ten Network/National Exposure....... 9

QUICK FACTS Location....................................................................................Evanston, Ill. Founded.................................................................................................1851 Enrollment.............................................................................................8,000 President........................................................................... Morton Schapiro Faculty Representative........................................................ Bob Gundlach Nickname......................................................................................... Wildcats Colors................................................................................Purple and White Conference........................................................................................ Big Ten Director of Athletics and Recreation.......................................Jim Phillips Sport Administrator.................................................................Brad Hurlbut Head Coach.......................................Claire Pollard (Mississippi State ’89) Career Record................................................................... 338-111 / 17 years NU Record / Years...............................................................265-52 / 11 years Assistant Coach............................. Jackie Holden (Mississippi State ’89) Letterwinners Returning / Lost.............................................................5 / 3 Singles Starters Returning / Lost..........................................................3 / 3 2008-09 Overall Record..........................................................................28-2 2008-09 Conference Record / Finish..........................................10-0 / First

2009-10 Season • 10-23 2009 Fall Season Review.....................12 2010 Spring Season Preview...............13 Head Coach Claire Pollard..............14-15 Assistant Coach Jackie Holden............16 Northwestern Support Staff .................17 2009-10 Wildcats.............................18-23

PROGRAM History • 24-32 2008-09 In Review...........................26-27 2008-09 Statistics and Results.............28 All-time Program Records....................29 Honors and Awards.........................30-32

ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS The 2009-10 Northwestern University Women’s Tennis Media Guide was produced by the Northwestern University Athletic Communications Department. Assistant Director/Women’s Tennis Contact.......................Scott Hammer Email................................................................ hammer@northwestern.edu Direct Office Phone.............................................................. (847) 491-8800 Cell Phone............................................................................. (847) 791-4651 FAX......................................................................................... (847) 491-8818 Assistant AD for Athletic Communications............................... Mike Wolf Associate Director................... Nick Brilowski, Julie Dunn, Doug Meffley Assistant Director.............................................................. Rand Champion Big Ten Network Liaison............................................................Rob Coons Web Site................................................................................ NUsports.com Photography.................................................. Scott Arey, Stephen Carrera Printing.....................................................................Multi-Ad Services, Inc.

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This is Northwestern • 33-40 This is Northwestern....................... 34-35 President Morton Schapiro.................. 36 Director of Athletics Jim Phillips........... 37 Academic Services . ........................... 38 Athletic Excellence.............................. 39 Athletic Endowments........................... 40

ROSTER AND PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

2009-10 ROSTER Name Linda Abu Mushrefova Elena Chernyakova Stacey Lee Lauren Lui Maria Mosolova Samantha Murray Kate Turvy Brittany Wowchuk

Ht. 5-5 5-8 5-5 5-7 5-8 5-9 5-2 5-7

Yr. Fr. So. So. Sr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Fr.

Hometown Bradenton, Fla. Moscow, Russia Old Westbury, N.Y. Houston, Texas Moscow, Russia Altrincham, England Dublin, Ohio Toronto, Ont.

High School Pendleton No. 150 Wheatley Kinkaid No. 204 Altrincham Grammar Dublin-Coffman Oakville Trafalgar

Head Coach: Claire Pollard, 12th year (Mississippi State ’89) Assistant Coach: Jackie Holden, Second year (Mississippi State ’89)

PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Linda Abu Mushrefova.........a-BOO MOOSH-re-fo-va Lauren Lui.......................................... LOO Elena Chernyakova....... e-LAY-na chair-nee-a-KO-va Maria Mosolova................moz-uh-LOW-va

2009-10 WILDCAT WOMEN’S TENNIS

DEFENDING ITA NATIONAL INDOOR TEAM CHAMPIONS ELEVEN-TIME DEFENDING BIG TEN CHAMPIONS 2

FROM LEFT: Assistant Coach Jackie Holden, Maria Mosolova, Brittany Wowchuk, Lauren Lui, Kate Turvy, Linda Abu Mushrefova, Stacey Lee, Elena Chernyakova, Samantha Murray, Head Coach Claire Pollard.

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NU TENNIS FACILITIES

COMBE TENNIS CENTER

here is a place inside the Combe Tennis Center where one can overlook six tennis courts in one direction while enjoying a breathtaking view of Lake Michigan and Northwestern’s own private beach in the other. Construction of the $10 million project began on Dec. 1, 2000. Varsity team locker rooms are state-ofthe-art, with individual wooden lockers for each player. In addition, a team conference room, athletic training room and varsity equipment storage room make for a completely self-contained facility. Both of the tennis head coaches’ offices have

a complete view of the beach and Lake Michigan. “The Combe Tennis Center is an outstanding venue for college tennis,” said head coach Claire Pollard. “It is perfect for both players and spectators.” Each of the six courts has its own electronic scoreboard. The main team scoreboard, which dominates the center of the south wall, gives a composite score and features an electronic message center. Spectator seating for over 300 is on a balcony overlooking the courts, so fans have an unobstructed view of each match being played.

VANDY CHRISTIE OUTDOOR TENNIS CENTER

he Vandy Christie Tennis Center was dedicated on Oct.29, 1994, to honor an outstanding alumnus and special representative of Northwestern. Christie’s career at NU began as a varsity tennis player in 1955 and he returned as the men’s head coach from 1976-83 before becoming the director of athletic development.

The Center boasts 15 courts, a pro shop and permanent seating for approximately 400 spectators. The courts have been home to Wildcat tennis since 1941, and have been the site of four NCAA Championships and 23 Big Ten Championships.

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NATIONAL PROMINENCE 2009 ITA National Indoor Team CHampionship...................................................... 6 Eleven-consecutive Big Ten Titles........................................................................ 7 WILDCAT History in the NCAA Championships...................................................... 8 Big Ten Network and National Exposure............................................................ 9

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ITA NAT I O N A L I N DOO R

T EAM CHAMPI O N S

Northwestern, the No. 1 overall seed at the 2009 ITA National Indoor Team Championship, arrived in Madison in February with one goal in mind. After four grueling days of tennis against the nation’s top competition, the ’Cats had achieved what they set out to do, becoming the first northern school and only the sixth program overall to capture the Indoor Team title in the 22-year history of the event.

ITA INDOOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP YEAR-BY-YEAR WINNERS

1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

* Also won NCAA championship in same season

Florida Stanford * Stanford * Florida Florida * Stanford Georgia * Georgia Florida * Florida Stanford Florida Stanford Stanford * Georgia Duke Stanford * Stanford * Stanford * Georgia Tech * Georgia Tech Northwestern

2009 ITA INDOOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP Qualifying Rounds Northwestern 7, New Mexico 0 Northwestern 7, Tulsa 0 Round of 16 Northwestern 6, Miami (Fla.) 1 Quarterfinal Northwestern 4, Duke 3 Semifinal Northwestern 4, Notre Dame 1 Championship Northwestern 4, Georgia 1

etween 2006 and 2008, Northwestern’s rise to national prominence could be tracked by its increasingly successful performances at the ITA National Indoor Team Championship, which brings together the top 16 tennis teams in the nation in a single-elimination team tournament. The ’Cats showed progress each successive year: reaching the round of 16 but falling in the first round in 2006, winning two matches in 2007, and reaching the final match in 2008. For NU’s trio of seniors in 2009 (Nazlie Ghazal, Keri Robison and Georgia Rose), their trip to Madison last February represented the last chance to realize their goal of becoming the first northern school to win an ITA national championship. Not surprisingly, each of them played a crucial role in making that dream become reality. Northwestern opened its tournament with an easy 6-1 defeat of No. 15 Miami (Fla.) in the first round, setting up what proved to be a dramatic quarterfinal match against eighth-ranked Duke. With the team score even at three, the outcome hinged on Ghazal’s No. 5 singles match against Duke’s Melissa Mang, which had entered a deciding third set. Tied at five and with tension mounting, Ghazal fell behind 0-30 in her service game before winning 12 of the next 13 points to steal the third set 7-5 and oust the Blue Devils, who went on to win the NCAA championship in May. The Wildcats took care of business in the semifinal when they defeated No. 14 Notre Dame by a 4-1 decision, setting up a meeting in the final with No. 6 Georgia. It didn’t take long for the drama to set in as the two teams promptly split the results at the first and third doubles positions. In the decisive No. 2 doubles match, Robison and Maria Mosolova trailed 7-6 with the game at deuce before rallying to pull even at seven. The match eventually reached a tiebreaker where Robison and Mosolova—playing at the top of their games—withstood a late charge from Monika Dancevic and Nadja Gilchrist to win the breaker 7-3 and secure the critical 1-0 lead entering singles play. The ’Cats came out firing on all cylinders in singles, with Rose and Lauren Lui racing to victories to set up Samantha Murray’s title-clinching win at No. 3 singles. By the end of the tournament, every Wildcat had played an integral role in securing Northwestern’s historic first national championship and completing an ascent to the top of the college tennis world that was years in the making.

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BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2000 Big Ten

1999 Big Ten Regular Season

Conference Champions

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2002 Big Ten Regular Season

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Conference Champions

2004 Big Ten Regular Season

2005 Big Ten Regular Season

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Conference Champions

2006 Big Ten Regular Season

2007 Big Ten Regular Season

2008 Big Ten Regular Season

2003 Big Ten Conference Champions

2009 Big Ten Regular Season

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Conference Champions

Tournament Champions

Eleven-Straight Big Ten Titles T

here are streaks, and then there is the run that Northwestern has enjoyed in the 11 seasons that Claire Pollard has been in Evanston. The Wildcats have claimed 11 consecutive Big Ten championships, the longest streak in Big Ten women’s tennis since the conference began sponsoring the sport in 1981. In fact, the ’Cats have a chance in 2010 to tie the Big Ten record for most titles in a row by a women’s team (12), currently held by Michigan swimming and diving from 1987-98. Year after year, the Wildcats have dominated the Big Ten, proving to be one of the most consistently successful teams in the country. Under Pollard’s direction, the Wildcats have posted a 265-52 record. Six times the ’Cats have gone undefeated in conference play with Pollard at the helm while 32 Wildcats

have been named All-Big Ten. Northwestern has boasted the Big Ten Player of the Year each of the last eight seasons, with Maria Mosolova taking home the award the last two seasons. To top it off, six Wildcats have earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors—most recently Mosolova in 2008—while Pollard has been voted the league’s Coach of the Year on five occasions. In 2009, Northwestern extended its unbeaten streak against conference opponents to 77 matches in coasting to the regular-season and tournament championships. The ’Cats, who won 70 of 72 singles matches and 39 of 42 doubles matches against Big Ten opponents during the regular season and league tournament, knocked off Michigan in the final match of the Big Ten Tournament for the fifth straight season.

NORTHWESTERN clinched its 2009 Big Ten championship with a 7-0 sweep of Penn State, its eighth sweep in 10 Big Ten dual matches.

BIG TEN TOURNAMENT — CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH RESULTS 1999: #1 Northwestern 4, #2 Wisconsin 1 2000: #3 Northwestern 4, #1 Minnesota 3 2001: #1 Northwestern 4, #2 Illinois 2 2002: #1 Northwestern 4, #2 Wisconsin 1 2003: #2 Northwestern 4, #1 Minnesota 2 2004: #1 Northwestern 4, #6 Ohio State 0 2005: #1 Northwestern 4, #7 Michigan 1 2006: #1 Northwestern 4, #2 Michigan 2 2007: #1 Northwestern 4, #3 Michigan 0 2008: #1 Northwestern 4, #2 Michigan 0 2009: #1 Northwestern 4, #2 Michigan 0

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NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES 1982 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

1983 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

1986 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals

2002 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

1984 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

1987 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals

2004 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

2007 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

1985 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

2000 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

2005 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

2008 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals

2001 NCAA Tournament Round of 16

2006 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals

2009 NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals

NCAA Postseason History 1982: 1983: 1984: 1985: 1986: 1987: 1996: 1997: 1998:

Round of 16 San Diego State 8, Northwestern 1 Round of 16 Trinity (Texas) 9, Northwestern 0 Round of 16 UCLA 6, Northwestern 3 Round of 16 San Diego State 6, Northwestern 3 Quarterfinals Northwestern 6, UCLA 3 Stanford 5, Northwestern 1 Quarterfinals Northwestern 5, Indiana 4 Florida 5, Northwestern 1 Regional Final Northwestern 5, Illinois 1 Mississippi 5, Northwestern 2 First Round Wisconsin 5, Northwestern 1 First Round Notre Dame 6, Northwestern 2

1999: 2000: 2001: 2002: 2003: 2004:

Regional Final Northwestern 5, Illinois 3 Arizona State 5, Northwestern 2 Round of 16 Northwestern 5, Oral Roberts 0 Northwestern 5, Tulsa 0 Stanford 5, Northwestern 1 Round of 16 Northwestern 4, Illinois-Chicago 0 Northwestern 4, Kentucky 1 California 5, Northwestern 1 Round of 16 Northwestern 4, Illinois-Chicago 0 Northwestern 4, Wisconsin 0 Florida 4, Northwestern 1 First Round Kansas State 4, Northwestern 1 Round of 16 Northwestern 4, Illinois-Chicago 0 Northwestern 4, Notre Dame 1 Duke 4, Northwestern 1

2005: 2006: 2007: 2008: 2009:

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Round of 16 Northwestern 4, Valparaiso 0 Northwestern 4, Notre Dame 0 Clemson 4, Northwestern 3 Quarterfinals Northwestern 4, Illinois-Chicago 0 Northwestern 4, Purdue 1 Northwestern 4, Georgia Tech 0 Southern California 4, Northwestern 3 Round of 16 Northwestern 4, Western Michigan 0 Northwestern 4, Indiana 1 UCLA 4, Northwestern 0 Quarterfinals Northwestern 4, Illinois-Chicago 0 Northwestern 4, Indiana 0 Northwestern 4, Fresno State 1 California 4, Northwestern 2 Quarterfinals Northwestern 4, Miami (Ohio) 0 Northwestern 4, Kentucky 1 Northwestern 4, Fresno State 0 California 4, Northwestern 2

BIG TEN NETWORK AND NATIONAL EXPOSURE S ILLINOIS Champaign, Ill.

INDIANA Bloomington, Ind.

IOWA

Iowa City, Iowa

MICHIGAN Ann Arbor, Mich.

MICHIGAN STATE East Lansing, Mich.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis, Minn.

NORTHWESTERN Evanston, Ill.

OHIO STATE Columbus, Ohio

PENN STATE University Park, Pa.

PURDUE West Lafayette, Ind.

WISCONSIN Madison, Wis.

ince 2007, Northwestern’s 19 varsity sports have gained unprecedented media exposure thanks in large part to the advent of the Big Ten Network, one of the premier television carriers of college athletics in the nation. The network currently reaches approximately 35 million households nationwide and is available to an estimated 73 million households in the United States and Canada. BTN is available in 22 of the top 25 media markets in the U.S. through agreements with more than 250 cable, satellite and telco affiliates. Based in Chicago, the network routinely visits Northwestern’s campus to keep up with the latest news and events associated with NU Athletics. In 2009, BTN aired Northwestern’s championship match of the Big Ten Tournament in its entirety from Wisconsin’s A.C. Nielsen Tennis Center. Katrina Adams (pictured above with NU’s Maria Mosolova), who was an NCAA doubles champion while a player for Northwestern in the 1980’s, provided color commentary on the match for the Big Ten Network. The ESPN family of networks also spotlighted Northwestern and its back-to-back No. 1 NCAA seed during its coverage of the 2009 NCAA Championships from College Station, Texas (pictured). Live Events ach year, the Big Ten Network televises approximately 350 live events, plus hundreds of hours of original programming, classic games, coaches’ shows and campus programming. Virtually all of the network’s live event programming is available in high definition. The network also plans to expand its streaming initiative in 2009-10, with more than 200 events, including Olympic sports, available live on www.BigTenNetwork.com.

The Big Ten Network will be in Iowa City to air the 2010 Big Ten Women’s Tennis Tournament April 29-May 2.

“Eleven schools, 252 varsity teams, one great network to cover it all. Welcome to the Big Ten Network, your ultimate source for Big Ten sports, featuring the games, passion and tradition of the nation’s foremost athletic conference.”

– Dave Revsine, August 30, 2007 First words ever spoken on the Big Ten Network

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2009-10 SEASON 2009 Fall in review...................................................................................................... 12 2010 Spring preview................................................................................................... 13 head coach claire pollard...............................................................................14-15 Assistant coach Jackie Holden............................................................................ 16 Northwestern Support Staff.............................................................................. 17 Linda abu mushrefova—Elena Chernyakova.................................................... 18 StacEy Lee—Lauren Lui........................................................................................ 19-20 Maria Mosolova........................................................................................................... 21 Samantha Murray....................................................................................................... 22 Kate Turvy—Brittany Wowchuk........................................................................... 23

2009 FALL SEASON IN REVIEW FURMAN FALL INVITATIONAL

ITA ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sept. 25-27 • Greenville, S.C.

orthwestern opened its fall season at the Furman Fall Classic and came away with two singles titles and one doubles championship. On the final day of competition, Maria Mosolova and Samantha Murray completed their bids for singles titles in flights one and five, respectively. Elena Chernyakova wrapped up a 2-1 weekend with a second-place showing in flight seven. In flight two, Lauren Lui defeated Dijana Stocic of South Carolina for seventh place, marking the 100th win in Lui’s NU career. On Saturday, Murray teamed with freshman Linda Abu Mushrefova to win the flight three doubles title.

Oct. 3-11 • Los Angeles, Calif.

reshman Brittany Wowchuk started strong in her first trip to the ITA All-American Championships and just the second collegiate tournament of her career. Wowchuk won her first two matches in the prequalifying singles draw, losing just one game in four sets to open the tournament. The 35th-ranked doubles team of Samantha Murray and Lauren Lui won their opening-round match in the qualifying bracket before falling to No. 10 Marritt Boonstra and Joanna Mather of Florida. SAM MURRAY

BRITTANY WOWCHUK

WILDCAT FALL INVITATIONAL

ITA MIDWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Oct. 9-11 • Evanston, Ill.

Oct. 22-27 • Evanston, Ill.

orthwestern saw a quartet of players reach the semifinals of their respective singles brackets. Lauren Lui and Linda Abu Mushrefova each finished singles play unbeaten (3-0) but were unable to play their flight championship matches due to time restraints. Abu Mushrefova’s final win of the weekend came in a three-set match against Wisconsin’s Hannah Berner when the Wildcat held Berner without a point in the tiebreaker to decide the match. Kate Turvy and Elena Chernyakova each reached the semifinal round of flight B, with Turvy scoring a quarterfinal victory over South Carolina’s Dijana Stocic and Chernyakova defeating Minnesota’s Alexa Palen in straight sets in the quarters.

LAUREN LUI

laying one of the fall’s biggest tournaments on her home courts, Maria Mosolova took advantage of her familiar surroundings and captured the 2009 ITA Midwest Regional singles championship, the first of her career. In the process, Mosolova became the seventh Northwestern player since 2001 to win the regional title. The NU junior knocked off three Big Ten opponents—including 2009 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Sonja Molnar of Iowa in the quarterfinals—before meeting Notre Dame’s 20th-ranked and second-seeded Kristy Frilling in MARIA MOSOLOVA the final. Mosolova appeared right at home in the title match, playing arguably her best match of the fall in knocking off Frilling 6-1, 6-2. NU also asserted itself in doubles play against its regional opponents, sending three doubles duos into the quarterfinals with two advancing as far as the semifinals.

DUALS IN THE DESERT

ITA INDOOR SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPS

Nov. 6-8 • Palm Springs, Calif.

he ’Cats wrapped up their fall season at the round-robin Duals in the Desert tournament with strong singles performances by Stacey Lee and Samantha Murray. As a team, the Wildcats managed to post a perfect 7-0 singles record on Saturday while playing against competitors from several of the nation’s top programs including Texas, UCLA, Southern California and Georgia. Murray finished 4-0 on the weekend while Lee won three of her four singles matches. STACEY LEE

Nov. 6-8 • New Haven, Conn. aking her second consecutive trip to the prestigious ITA National Indoor Singles Championships, top-seeded Maria Mosolova posted a 1-2 record after falling in the first round to a close friend and a fellow Moscow native, 22nd-ranked Anastasia Petukhova of Fresno State. Mosolova rebounded in the consolation draw to defeat the Atlantic regional singles champion, Nadhine Fadhoum of Old Dominion, before bowing out to Duke’s 13th-ranked Reka Zsilinszka, 6-4, 6-0.

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MARIA MOSOLOVA

2010 SPRING SEASON PREVIEW Head coach Claire Pollard provides a look at her team, the Big Ten Conference and the 2010 dual season. What did you learn about your team this fall, both the returners and your freshmen newcomers? “I think this year is a transition year in a lot of ways for us. We’re very young—even our sophomores are young in terms of not getting as much experience as we would have liked last year. Our work ethic on the court in the fall was the best it’s been in some time, in part because our freshmen brought tremendous energy and excitement. The returners did a good job going steady as they normally do. We’re very much a team of action now rather than a team of talkers. Our leaders are very quiet and just go about their business, leading by example. I thought it was a good fall. We didn’t play amazing tennis but we certainly learned quite a bit. I think we can expect a few bumps in the road this year, not necessarily in terms of losses but we still don’t know what to expect from anybody (on the team). We will still have a lot of positive outcomes but I just expect matches to be tougher in general. That can prove to be beneficial for us in the end of the year when hopefully we’ll be playing our best tennis.”

so many intangible ways but in my eyes we have five players on our roster who haven’t won anything. The key is going to be for them to not put too much pressure on themselves.” You made a few changes to your season-long preparations for the NCAA Championships last season. How pleased were you with the results of those decisions and is there anything you see yourself doing differently in 2010? “It went really well. We spent a lot of conditioning sessions in (NU’s) wrestling room where it’s easy to get a good sweat going and it was as good of a thing as we could do. (Conditioning) certainly was not one of the reasons we lost in the tournament, we played well out in the heat. We’re always looking to get better. Our program changes every year, which people always seem stunned by because they think we must have done things the same way for 11 years because it works. In reality, I’m doing things radically different than we’ve done in the past. Change and adaptation is important for everyone. In the end, we’re still looking to peak in February and then peak again in May.” What are your early assesments of your competition in the Big Ten?

“I see Illinois as a very good team, Michelle (Dasso) has done a great job and that’s a team that’s very hungry for success. That will be a How would you compare the good, early test for us. It’s a Friday mindset of your players in the fall night match and I bet they’ll pack versus in the spring season? in the gym so it should be fun. “The tough thing about college Michigan has certainly gotten tennis is that to play really well for better and gave us a great test in nine months is so difficult so if you’re the Big Ten final last year. Ohio not going to play great, the fall would CLAIRE POLLARD coaches her top-seeded Wildcats at the 2009 NCAA Championships in State is also returning a good be a good time. We had some players College Station, Texas. team. The league has continued to who were a little up and down in get better, especially at the bottom the fall maybe because there isn’t that sense of urgency in the spring, where there isn’t nearly as much of a drop-off from the top teams as there when you’re 100 percent determined to not let the team down. We’ve used to be. We’re going to have to be on our game.” been more focused on the process of improving and understanding that we’re not going to see our results in the fall. Of course we balance the individual aspect but at the end of the day the team does come first.” What do you expect from your senior duo, Lauren Lui and Samantha Murray? “They’ve done a good job already but what they need to do more of is talking the freshmen through a lot of what we do—especially when we hit some tough stretches during the dual season—and I know they will. They can teach them that it’s OK if we lose a match, we’re still going to get up the next morning and eat breakfast and the sun will come up. There is inherent pressure when you enter the program to perform, especially as the stakes have gotten higher the last couple of years. Sam and Lauren have been through that, along with Maria (Mosolova), and they need to do a good job of guiding and mentoring the younger girls.” How hungry would you say your team is to defend its ITA National Indoor Team championship from a year ago? “It’s really just more of a different influx of energy because we have five players who really didn’t win that championship for us. Elena (Chernyakova) contributed in doubles and Stacey (Lee) contributed in

Describe the contributions that last year’s trio of seniors had on this year’s team and the program as a whole. “You just can’t replace those three kids. That’s not a discredit to the newcomers because they’re bringing everything we could ask for. But you can’t replace that experience that we had going into the big matches last year. They left us with a program that has come closer and closer to the top of the mountain and one day when we reach the top they’ll be proud of what they contributed.” Last season’s home schedule featured some big matches against top competition and you drew great crowds to support the Wildcats. What does that type of support and atmosphere do for your team? “It’s hugely important to us. We need them to come out and they enjoy when we play in a big match, which we have a few more of on the schedule this season. What makes college tennis exciting is that you’re no longer playing on a court in the back of a grove where only your mom is watching you. There’s always a reason to play your absolute hardest here and there is always someone behind you. That helps us tremendously and I think we’re pretty tough to beat on our home courts.”

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HEAD COACH CLAIRE POLLARD Claire POLLARD Head Coach 12th Season

n 11 seasons at the helm of the Northwestern women’s tennis program, Claire Pollard has brought the ’Cats from regular contender in the Big Ten to national powerhouse. In addition to 11 consecutive Big Ten championships—the second-longest streak by any women’s program in Big Ten history—Pollard has guided NU to several program-firsts in the past two years including a No. 1 national ranking, back-to-back No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Championships and an ITA National Indoor Team championship. Pollard was the 2008 Wilson/ITA National Coach of the Year, is a four-time Wilson/ITA Midwest Region Coach of the Year honoree and a five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year, winning the award consecutively in 2008 and 2009. Pollard has coached the Wildcats to an overall record of 265-52, including an astounding 110-6 mark in the Big Ten regular season. She is also 38-0 against conference opponents in postseason play (Big Ten Tournament and NCAA Championships) and is currently riding a 77-match winning streak against Big Ten opponents. Under Pollard, NU has flourished with 40 individual NCAA qualifiers, nine Midwest Regional singles champions—including seven since 2001, most recently Maria Mosolova in 2009—33 All-Big Ten honorees and 45 Academic All-Big Ten recipients. In 2009, Northwestern maintained the No. 1 spot in the Campbell’s/ ITA College Tennis polls from the preseason through the start of the NCAA Championships and eventually finished ranked No. 2 for the second consecutive season. NU defended its top ranking early in the year with its historic win at the ITA National Indoor Team Championship in February as it became the first northern school—and just the sixth school overall—to win the crown in the 22-year history of the event. Later in the year, Pollard and the ’Cats capped off a fifth straight unbeaten Big Ten dual season and eventually reached the NCAA quarterfinals for the third time in four years. Pollard first brought Northwestern to the NCAA round of eight in 2006, the same year in which the Wildcats won their first individual national championship under Pollard’s guidance when Cristelle Grier and Alexis Prousis captured the NCAA doubles crown. With that win, Pollard became the second coach in NCAA history to capture a doubles title as both a player and a coach. NU’s success in the 2009 dual season continued the momentum it developed in 2008 when the ’Cats completed a landmark season by setting program records for wins (29), winning percentage (.935) and shutouts (15). Even prior to its consecutive years with a No. 2 final team ranking, Northwestern was consistently in the mix as one of the nation’s elite programs under Pollard. In her time at NU, the Wildcats have recorded final finishes of fifth (2005), eighth (2006 and 2007), ninth (2001), 10th (2004), 14th (2002) 15th (2001) and 18th (2003). Northwestern has reached at least the round of 16 in the NCAA Championships in eight of the last nine years, increasing the program’s number of total NCAA appearances along the way to 20. On the individual side, Pollard has coached three of only four players in Big Ten history to earn the league’s Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year honors in the same season. In 2003, Cristelle Grier became

POLLARD AT-A-GLANCE Born

August 9, 1966

Alma Mater

Mississippi State, 1989

Degree Bachelor’s Degree, 1989 Fitness Management Master’s Degree, 1990 Sports Administration Playing Experience Mississippi State, 1986-89 Wimbledon participant, 1989 U.S. Open participant, 1989 Coaching Experience Northwestern, 1998-present Head Coach Lamar, 1993-98 Head Coach Chris Lane Tennis Club (England), 1992-94 Junior Development Coordinator Mississippi State, 1990-91 Head Coach

CLAIRE POLLARD

the first NU player and just the second in conference history to earn both accolades in the same season, preceding Audra Cohen (2005) and Maria Mosolova (2008). In 2009, Mosolova joined Grier as NU’s only winners of multiple Big Ten Player of the Year awards. Grier, a four-time All-Big Ten selection, captured the honor three times (2003, 2005-06). The superb depth of Pollard’s lineups has become apparent in recent years with four All-Big Ten selections in both 2008 and 2009, the second and third times in school history that a quartet of Wildcats earned the recognition, the other being 1984. Pollard’s first head coaching position was at her alma mater, Mississippi State University, where she was the coach during the 1990-91 season. After a short stint with the Chris Lane Tennis Club in England, she came back to the States to assume the head coaching position at Lamar, where she led both the men’s and women’s teams. During that time, the women’s team posted a 64-49 overall record. A decorated collegiate player, Pollard teamed with NU assistant coach Jackie Holden to win the 1989 NCAA Doubles championship as well as back-to-back Southeastern Conference Indoor and Outdoor Doubles

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HEAD COACH CLAIRE POLLARD championships. An All-American and Academic All-American, Pollard and Holden were named Mississippi State’s Female Athletes of the Year in 1989. Pollard is the Bulldogs’ program leader for doubles victories in one season with 39 in 1988-89. She is also tied for eighth in season singles victories (23, 1985-86). In 1989, Pollard participated in the Wimbledon and U.S. Open Championships. Pollard graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi State with a bachelor of science in fitness management and received her master’s from Mississippi State in sports administration. A native of Surrey, England, Pollard served for four years on the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tennis Committee and served as chairman of the NCAA Committee for two years.

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Winningest coach in program history Nine Big Ten regular-season championships 11 consecutive Big Ten Tournament titles 2009 ITA National Indoor Team championship Big Ten Coach of the Year (2001, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009) ITA National Coach of the Year (2008) ITA Midwest Coach of the Year (2001, 2003, 2005, 2008) Six Big Ten Freshman of the Year awards Nine Big Ten Player of the Year awards 33 All-Big Ten selections Seven undefeated Big Ten seasons 22 NCAA qualifiers (singles) 18 NCAA qualifiers (doubles) Nine ITA Midwest Regional singles championships Four ITA Midwest Regional doubles championships Two ITA National Indoor doubles championships 2004 ITA All-American singles champion and NCAA runner-up Coach of 2006 NCAA national champion doubles pairing 2008 and 2009 NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed

CLAIRE POLLARD and then-assistant coach DAVE MULLINS were named the ITA National Coach of the Year and Assistant Coach of the Year, respectively, in 2008.

THE LOWDOWN ON COACH POLLARD A pair of former players weigh in on what it’s like to play for Claire Pollard and what the keys to her success have been:

“Claire is the best coach in college tennis, her record speaks for itself. I couldn’t have asked for a better four years playing at Northwestern. Claire is able to motivate and push everyone on the team, but always balances hard work with fun. Her success comes from how much she cares about her players and making them into better tennis players and people.” —Georgia Rose ’09 Four-time All-American

POLLARD’S COACHING RECORD

Season 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02 2000-01 1999-00 1998-99 1997-98 1996-97 1995-96 1994-95 1993-94 1990-91 Career

Record 28-2 29-2 24-5 24-5 26-3 25-5 19-9 23-6 24-5 24-5 19-5 15-8 18-4 10-8 8-15 11-14 11-10 338-111

* Also coach of the men’s team (37-41)

School Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern Lamar * Lamar * Lamar * Lamar * Lamar Mississippi State

“Playing for Northwestern and Claire Pollard was an experience I’m so lucky to have had. The way Claire was able to challenge me and help me grow, not only as a player but as a person, led me to accomplish things I never thought possible.” —Alexis Prousis ’07 2006 NCAA Doubles champion

CLAIRE POLLARD (left) and JACKIE HOLDEN celebrate their 1989 NCAA doubles championship, still the only individual national tennis title won at Mississippi State.

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ASSISTANT COACH JACKIE HOLDEN JACKIE HOLDEN

JACKIE HOLDEN

Second Season Assistant Coach

ackie Holden enters her second season as assistant coach at Northwestern after making an immediate impact on the program in 2008-09. Holden, who along with Pollard won the 1989 NCAA Doubles championship playing for Mississippi State, was instrumental in helping the ’Cats win the 2009 ITA Indoor National Team championship and spend the entire regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation. Holden arrived at NU after a three-year stint as a national training coach at the Lawn Tennis Association, the governing body of tennis in Great Britain. While coaching for the LTA, Holden was responsible for the training and development of Britain’s performance players between the ages of 10 and 16. She also organized and implemented national training camps for the region’s best players and served as an advisor to a multitude of coaches and club teams. Holden, a native of Yorkshire, England, has also worked extensively in sports marketing, performing consulting work for such organizations as Mint Apparel Limited and the Rugby Football Union, in addition to her role as a promotions and public relations executive for the LTA. She contributed programs such as the Play Tennis and Girls in Tennis campaigns and directed all aspects of the LTA’s PR function, including tournament management and media training for players and coaches. As a student-athlete at Mississippi State, Holden was a two-time All-American whose doubles championship with Pollard remains MSU’s only individual women’s tennis title. She and Pollard were recognized as the Bulldogs’ Female Athletes of the Year in 1989 when she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in fitness management.

HOLDEN AT-A-GLANCE Born

June 23, 1967

Alma Mater

Mississippi State, 1989

Degrees Bachelor of Science, Fitness Management Playing Experience Mississippi State, 1985-1989 1989 NCAA Doubles Champion 1989 Mississippi State Female Athlete of the Year Lawn Tennis Association, 1989 Professional tennis player Coaching Experience

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Lawn Tennis Association, 2005-2008 National training coach Tennis World, 1990-1991 Professional tennis coach Northwestern University, 2008-present Assistant coach

NORTHWESTERN SUPPORT STAFF KARI TAGGART Second Season Athletic Training

MELI RESENDIZ 20th Season Equipment Manager

SCOTT Hammer

KATIE AUSTIN

Second Season Athletic Communications

Eighth Season Strength and Conditioning

TRACKING THE ’CATS...

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2009-10 WILDCATS LINDA ABU MUSHReFova

ELENA CHERNYAKOVA

5-7 Freshman Bradenton, Fla. Pendleton

5-8 Sophomore Moscow, Russia N150

Fall 2009

FALL 2009

Finished with an 8-2 mark in singles after winning the first six matches of her collegiate career ... Won one match at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships ... 5-3 in doubles ... Won all three doubles matches at the Furman Fall Classic with Samantha Murray.

Finished 6-5 in singles and 6-4 in doubles ... Advanced to the doubles semifinals of the ITA Midwest Regional Championships with Lauren Lui ... Won two singles matches each at the Furman Fall Classic, Wildcat Invitational and Duals in the Desert.

High school Attended the IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Fla. ... No. 15-ranked recruit in the nation and No. 5 in Florida according to tennisrecruiting.net ... Competed at the 30th International Casablanca Junior Cup in 2007 where she competed against Wildcat sophomore Elena Chernyakova ... In 2006, took part in a five-week tour competing on behalf of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) against representatives from COSAT and Tennis Europe, winning a doubles title in Milan as well as in the Derby Cadets tournament in La Baule, France.

PERSONAL Born Linda Abu Mushrefova on 3/21/91 ... Daughter of Lenka Abu Mushrefova and Ahmad Abu Mushref ... Attended same training academy as tennis player Maria Sharapova and golfer Paula Creamer.

LINDA ABU MUSHREFOVA

2008-09 Played as a doubles specialist for much of the year, posting a 23-2 dual record in the No. 3 doubles spot with Samantha Murray ... The duo won a season-high 14 consecutive matches from 3/1 to 4/25 ... Finished second on the team in total doubles victories with 38 (38-6 overall) ... 10-0 in Big Ten regular ELENA season dual matches ... Chernyakova and Murray CHERNYAKOVA won all three matches they completed during the NCAA Championships ... In singles, Chernyakova finished with a 12-8 record and a 3-0 mark in the Big Ten ... Won two matches playing No. 6 (vs. Purdue, at Minnesota) and one while playing No.5 (at Iowa) ... Compiled an 8-6 fall singles record ... Reached the quarterfinals of the Midwest Regional Championships with two of her three wins coming against Big Ten opponents; the third came against No. 86 Zaruhi Harutyunyan of Akron ... Won three of four matches at Wildcat Fall Invitational ... Finished 2-1 at Duals in the Desert ... In doubles play, won Flight Three of the Duals in the Desert playing alongside Keri Robison ... Reached the semifinals of the Furman Invitational with Maria Mosolova.

HIGH SCHOOL Received the First President of Russia-Elcin scholarship for three consecutive years ... Nominated as Player of the Year in Europe for 16-andunder age group.

PERSONAL Born Elena Chernyakova on 10/19/90 ... Daughter of Vladimir and Nadezda Chernyakova ... Played against Northwestern teammate Maria Mosolova in juniors competition in Russia ... Majoring in economics.

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2009-10 WILDCATS CHERNYAKOVA’S CAREER SINGLES RECORD YEAR 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 12-8 6-5 18-13

DUAL 3-0 — 3-0

LEE’S CAREER DOUBLES RECORD BIG TEN 3-0 — 3-0

YEAR 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 5-5 8-1 13-6

DUAL BIG TEN 0-0 0-0 — — 0-0 0-0

CHERNYAKOVA’S CAREER DOUBLES RECORD YEAR 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 38-6 6-4 46-10

DUAL 27-2 — 27-2

BIG TEN 10-0 — 10-0

STACEY LEe 5-5 Sophomore Old Westbury, N.Y. Wheatley

STACEY LEE

FALL 2009

Lauren LUi

Posted a 6-5 record in singles and an 8-1 mark in doubles ... Reached the doubles semifinals of the ITA Midwest Regional Championships with Samantha Murray, picking up a win over Michigan’s 32nd-ranked team of Whitney Taney and Rika Tatsuno ... Won three singles matches at the Duals in the Desert.

5-7 Senior Houston, Texas Kinkaid

2008-09 Finished a superb freshman season with a 20-2 overall singles record and a 9-1 mark in dual matches ... Undefeated (8-0) in Big Ten dual matches, winning six matches in the No. 6 spot and two at No. 5 ... Enjoyed a 12-match winning streak from 10/31 to 4/4 ... 5-5 overall in doubles matches ... Racked up an 8-1 fall singles mark ... Won four consecutive matches to capture the flight C singles title at the Wildcat Fall Invitational on 10/12, defeating DePaul’s Selma Salkovic in the final in three sets ... At the Duals in the Desert, won all three of her matches in the round-robin bracket of the tournament ... Finished 1-1 in her first Midwest Regional Championship ... Also recorded a 1-1 mark in the doubles bracket at Midwest Regionals playing with Nazlie Ghazal ... 2-1 in doubles at Wildcat Invitational with Keri Robison.

HIGH SCHOOL Played No. 1 singles position all four years ... Earned all-county, allconference and all-state honors as a senior.

PERSONAL Born Stacey Giwon Lee on 1/17/90 ... Daughter of Michael and Sunnie Lee ... Majoring in learning and organizational change.

LEE’S CAREER SINGLES RECORD YEAR 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 20-2 6-5 26-7

DUAL BIG TEN 9-1 8-0 — — 9-1 8-0

FALL 2009 Finished with a 7-7 singles record and a 9-3 doubles mark ... Ranked No. 89 in singles and No. 35 in doubles with Samantha Murray in the preseason Campbell’s/ITA College Tennis poll ... Won her 100th career singles match on 9/27 against Dijana Stocic in the Furman Fall Classic ... Advanced to the singles quarterfinals of the ITA Midwest Regional Championships, the best performance in her four trips to the tournament ... Also reached the doubles semifinals at the Midwest Regionals with Elena Chernyakova ... Competed in the prequalifying bracket in singles and the qualifying bracket in doubles at the ITA All-American Championships in Los Angeles.

2008-09 Reached ITA All-American status in doubles for the first time in her career by advancing to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Doubles Championship with partner Georgia Rose ... The duo finished the season ranked No. 13 with a 27-13 overall record (18-8 playing No. 1 spot in duals, including 9-1 in Big Ten) ... Compiled a 34-13 overall singles record (21-5 in duals, 9-1 Big Ten) ... Named an All-Big Ten selection ... Undefeated (8-0) at third singles spot and 12-5 at traditional fourth spot in the lineup ... Became the first representative from the Big Ten to win the ITA National Sportsmanship Award (2/15) ... Competed at National Collegiate Tennis Classic where she won three singles matches and one doubles match with Maria Mosolova ... Lui and Rose won two matches in the NCAA Doubles tournament, besting Fresno State’s Tinesta Rowe

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2009-10 WILDCATS and Melanie Gloria in the first round before ousting Kentucky’s Carolina Escomilla and Caroline Lilley in the second ... Amassed a 9-6 fall singles record ... Won Flight Four singles at the Duals in the Desert, beating No. 106 Leyla Entekhabi of Southern California in the finals ... Won her first two matches at the All-American Championships in Los Angeles ... Along with Georgia Rose, won four of five doubles matches at the Midwest Regional Championships ... Entered the fall ranked No. 36 nationally in singles and No. 7 in doubles with Georgia Rose ... Academic All-Big Ten.

LUI’S CAREER SINGLES RECORD

2007-08

LUI’S CAREER DOUBLES RECORD

All-Big Ten selection ... Academic All-Big Ten ... NCAA singles and doubles qualifier ... Defeated the 2006 NCAA singles champion, Susie Babos of Cal, in a three-set first round comeback victory during NCAA singles championship ... Finished the season ranked No. 46 nationally ... Recorded a team-best 23-1 record in dual singles, including a perfect 22-0 from the No. 4 position ... 10-0 in Big Ten singles ... Won 27 of her last 28 dual matches ... Won a team-high 19-consecutive matches from 2/16-5/22 ... Posted seven wins against nationally ranked opponents, including five in the top 50 ... Went 16-0 in dual doubles, including 22-1 overall, with partner Georgia Rose ... Finished the season ranked in the top 20 with two different doubles partners; No. 14 with Rose and No. 17 with Samantha Murray ... Defeated nine nationally ranked duos throughout the year, all of which were ranked in the nation’s top 35 ... Named Big Ten Athlete of the Week on 4/2 ... Two-time Hilton Garden Inn Athlete of the Week (1/21 & 4/14) ... Started the fall season on an eight-match doubles winning streak, also had a five-match winning streak in singles ... Won Nike-Cal Invitational with Alexis Conill over pair from Arizona State ... Qualified for Riviera/ ITA Women’s All-American Championships ... Reached the finals of Midwest Regional Championships with Georgia Rose ... Reached singles semifinals of the Duals in the Desert.

YEAR 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 33-9 32-9 34-13 7-7 106-38

OVERALL 28-10 39-9 32-16 9-3 110-39

2006-07 Ended season on 12-match singles winning streak ... Won clincher against Indiana in NCAA second round ... Won two matches in Big Ten Championship ... Posted 20-5 dual record, including a 10-0 record in Big Ten play ... 33-9 overall record ... Named Big Ten Player of the Week on 2/27 ... Posted wins over No. 40 Ashley Joelson of UCLA and No. 53 Romy Farah of Miami ... Compiled a 5-4 record playing No. 2 doubles with Samantha Murray ... 14-2 dual record playing doubles with Keri Robison ... Notched a non-conference singles win over Notre Dame’s 26th-ranked Catrina Thompson ... Posted 8-2 fall singles record and 7-2 fall doubles mark ... Went 3-1 in singles at Wildcat Invitational ... Posted 3-1 record in doubles at Wildcat Invitational with partner Keri Robison ... Advanced to the round of 16 in singles of ITA Midwest Regional Championships, where she fell to Murray ... Went undefeated in singles and doubles with Murray at WMU Super Challenge.

HIGH SCHOOL Played No. 1 singles all four years at Kinkaid ... Earned all-Southwest Preparatory Conference honors all four years ... Team won conference title three straight years ... Four-year honor roll student ... Attended same high school as current NU men’s tennis player Alex Sanborn.

PERSONAL Born Lauren S. Lui on 2/4/88 ... Daughter of Lillian and Alfred Lui ... Majoring in learning and organizational change.

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DUAL 20-5 23-1 21-5 — 64-11

DUAL 19-6 21-6 20-8 — 60-20

BIG TEN 10-0 10-0 9-1 — 29-1

BIG TEN 10-0 7-2 9-1 — 26-3

ALL-AMERICAN LAUREN LUI

2009-10 WILDCATS Maria Mosolova 5-8 Junior Moscow, Russia No. 204 FALL 2009 Drew the No. 1 overall preseason singles ranking in the Campbell’s/ITA College Tennis poll ... Ranked No. 41 in doubles with Brittany Wowchuk ... Won the 2009 ITA Midwest Regional singles championship, defeating 20th-ranked Kristy Frilling of Notre Dame in the final ... Did not lose a set in her five matches at the Midwest Regionals ... Finished the fall with a 9-4 singles record ... Owned the No. 1 seed at both the ITA All-American Championships and the ITA National Indoor Singles Championships ... Won a flight singles title at the Furman Fall Classic.

2008-09 Named an ITA All-American in singles and finished the season ranked No. 2 in the nation ... One of four finalists for the 2009 Honda Sports Award, presented to the nation’s top player at the end of the season ... Won second straight Big Ten Player of the Year award and named firstteam All-Big Ten ... Drew the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Singles Championship and reached the quarterfinals before falling to No. 8 Chelsey Gullickson of Georgia ... Spent 10 weeks ranked No. 1 in the Campbell/ITA College Tennis poll after becoming the first Northwestern player to garner the top preseason singles ranking ... 36-8 overall singles record with a 17-5 mark in duals and a 7-0 Big Ten record ... Qualified for her first NCAA Doubles Championships with partner Keri Robison ... The duo played the No. 2 spot for NU and ended the year ranked No. 36 nationally with a 25-5 overall record (22-3 duals, 10-0 Big Ten) ... Won 16 straight doubles matches from 3/4 to 5/9 ... Three-time Big Ten Player of the Week (1/20, 2/17, 4/7) ... 24 of 36 singles wins came against ranked opponents ... Clinched NU’s 11th straight Big Ten Tournament title with her 6-2, 6-1 win against Michigan’s 62ndranked Chisako Sugiyama ... Named to all-tournament team in doubles following NU’s title at the ITA National Indoor Team Championship ... Won the singles bracket at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic (1/18), defeating Stanford’s 26th-ranked Hilary Barte in three sets in the final ... In the fall, posted a 13-2 record in singles play ... At All-American Championships, won her first three matches, including a come-frombehind three-set victory against Amanda McDowell of Georgia Tech, the 2008 NCAA singles champion ... Came away with tournament titles at

the Duals in the Desert and the Furman Invitational ... Advanced to the semifinals of the National Indoor Singles Championships ... Paired with Keri Robison to win three of four matches at the Midwest Regional Championships ... Academic All-Big Ten ... Named an ITA ScholarAthlete.

2007-08 Selected to the singles ITA All-America Team ... Named ITA National Player to Watch and Midwest Region Player of the Year ... Recipient of Big Ten Player and Freshman of the Year awards ... All-Big Ten team selection ... Finished the season ranked No. 7 overall ... Advanced to the NCAA singles quarterfinals as the tournament’s No. 4 seed ... Only Wildcat with 40-plus wins, posting a 41-6 overall singles record ... Posted a 23-3 dual record, including a perfect 10-0 in Big Ten action ... Teambest winning percentage of .872 ... Rode a 14-match winning streak from 3/26-5/17 ... Recorded seven victories over top-50 opponents ... Spent the entire season ranked among the nation’s top 10 ... 40-5 overall in doubles competition ... Posted a 23-4 dual doubles record, including 9-1 in the Big Ten ... In the fall season, she instantly dominated college scene with a 13-2 singles record, while going 12-1 in doubles ... Victorious in first nine singles matches ... Reached finals of Nike-Cal Invitational with three wins over ranked players, including a semifinals win over thenNo. 4 Susie Babos ... Beat teammate Georgia Rose in the championship of National Indoor Championships consolation draw ... Notched four wins over ranked opponents in the tournament overall ... Won first 12 doubles matches ... Won titles at the Nike-Cal Invitational and Wildcat Invitational with Ghazal ... Reached the semifinals of the Midwest Regional Championships with Conill, winning five matches.

HIGH SCHOOL Won the Russian under-16 title and the under-18 title ... Ranked No. 41 in the ITF World Junior Rankings.

PERSONAL Born Maria S. Mosolova on 10/19/89 ... Daughter of Svetlana and Sergey Mosolova ... Majoring in economics.

MOSOLOVA’S CAREER SINGLES RECORD YEAR 2007-08 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 41-6 36-8 9-4 86-18

DUAL 23-3 17-5 — 40-8

BIG TEN 10-0 7-0 — 17-0

MOSOLOVA’S CAREER DOUBLES RECORD

TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN MARIA MOSOLOVA

YEAR 2007-08 2008-09 Fall 2009 Career

OVERALL 40-5 31-8 2-1 73-14

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DUAL 23-4 24-3 — 47-7

BIG TEN 9-1 10-0 — 19-1

2009-10 WILDCATS Samantha Murray 5-9 Senior Altrincham, England Altrincham Grammar FALL 2009 Ranked No. 40 in singles and No. 35 in doubles in the preseason Campbell’s/ ITA College Tennis poll ... Enjoyed a 10-2 start to the season this fall ... Undefeated at Furman Fall Classic (30) and Duals in the Desert (4-0) events ... Reached the doubles semifinals of the ITA Midwest Regional Championships with Stacey Lee and finished 10-1 in doubles during the fall season.

2006-07

SAMANTHA MURRAY

2008-09 NCAA Singles qualifier for third consecutive season ... Finished the season ranked No. 56 nationally in singles with a 34-13 overall record (19-6 duals, 7-1 Big Ten) ... Earned third All-Big Ten selection ... Recorded 11 victories against ranked opponents ... Posted a 33-7 doubles record, including a 24-3 mark with Elena Chernaykova ... Murray and Chernyakova went 23-2 in dual matches at the No. 3 spot and won a season-high 14 matches from 3/1 to 4/25 ... Won her 100th career singles match on 4/18 against Christina Keesey of Ohio State ... Named to the all-tournament team for doubles following NU’s title at the ITA National Indoor Team Championship ... Fell in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championship to Georgia Tech’s Cristy Striplin ... Finished the fall with a 13-5 singles mark ... Captured the Wilson/ITA Midwest Regional crown, marking the eighth straight season a Northwestern player has won the event ... Defeated Notre Dame’s Kelcy Tefft (No. 43) in the finals, rallying to win 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 ... It was the only match of the tournament in which Murray was pushed to a third set ... Finished 2-2 at the All-American Championships ... Won her opening-round match at the ITA National Indoor Championships ... Along with Keri Robison, won the Flight Two doubles bracket at the Furman Invitational ... Academic All-Big Ten ... Named an ITA Scholar-Athlete.

2007-08 All-Big Ten selection for the second time ... Academic All-Big Ten ... ESPN The Magazine second-team Academic All-District V at-large selection ... NCAA singles qualifier for second straight year ... Finished the season as the ITA’s 39th-ranked singles player ... Ranked No. 17 in doubles with partner Lauren Lui ... Posted a 37-11 overall singles record,

including 20-6 in duals, all from the No. 3 position ... Went 9-1 in Big Ten dual action, with five of those wins coming in critical superbreaker third sets ... Recorded five wins against nationally ranked opponents, including Whitney McCray of Georgia Tech ... Posted a 35-11 doubles record, including 15-3 in duals with partner Suzie Matzenauer ... Three doubles wins over top-20 tandems ... Big Ten Athlete of the Week on 1/16 ... In the fall, compiled a 14-4 singles record, 9-3 in doubles ... Reached semifinals of the Nike-Cal Invitational ... Won qualifying consolation draw of All-American Championships with five victories over ranked opponents ... Made it to finals of the Midwest Regional Championships to qualify for National Indoor Championships ... Won first-round match to reach the round of 16 at Indoor Championships ... Qualified for and reached quarterfinals of the All-American Championships with Lauren Lui in doubles ... Also reached semifinals of Cal-Nike Invitational and the quarterfinals of the Midwest Regional Championships with Matzenauer. 2007 Big Ten Freshman of the Year ... All-Big Ten selection ... ITA Midwest Region Rookie Player of the Year ... NCAA singles qualifier ... Won two doubles matches in NCAA Regionals with Alexis Conill ... Finished regular season as the 38th-ranked singles player in the nation ... Posted wins over No. 19 Katrina Tsang, No. 28 Yasmin Schnack and No. 31 Colleen Rielley ... Named Big Ten Player of the Week on 1/12 and 4/24 ... Posted a 14-11 record in singles in the dual season and a 7-3 record in the Big Ten ... Partnered with Lauren Lui to post a 5-4 record at No. 2 doubles... 15-3 doubles record in dual match play with Conill ... Pair entered NCAA round of 16 on nine-match winning streak ... Advanced to the semifinals of the main singles draw at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic ... Closed regular season with two singles wins in a row ... Had an impressive fall going 10-1 in singles and 9-1 in doubles ... Posted a perfect 4-0 singles record at Wildcat Invitational to go along with a 3-0 doubles record with partner Nazlie Ghazal ... Advanced to quarterfinals in singles of ITA Midwest Regional Championships and made it to doubles semifinals with partner Alexis Conill ... Undefeated in both singles and doubles WMU Super Challenge, winning three doubles matches with partner Lauren Lui.

HIGH SCHOOL Played eight years of tennis at Altrincham Grammar ... Also played rounders, field hockey and badminton ... Team was local region championships in rounders and tennis, 1999-04 ... Made national school’s finals in badminton.

PERSONAL Born Samantha Dawn Murray on 10/9/87 ... Daughter of Catherine and David Murray ... Brothers Neil and Peter played tennis at Bath University in England ... Majoring in economics.

MURRAY’S CAREER SINGLES RECORD YEAR 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Fall 2008 Career

OVERALL 33-9 37-11 34-13 10-2 127-40

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DUAL 20-5 20-6 19-6 — 59-17

BIG TEN 7-3 9-1 7-1 — 23-5

2009-10 WILDCATS MURRAY’S CAREER DOUBLES RECORD YEAR 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Fall 2008 Career

OVERALL 30-10 35-11 33-7 10-1 108-29

DUAL 20-7 21-8 25-2 — 66-17

5-7 Freshman Toronto, Ont. Oakville-Trafalgar Fall 2009

KATE TURVY

Ranked No. 41 in doubles with Maria Mosolova in the preseason Campbell’s/ITA College Tennis poll ... Finished 7-5 in singles and 4-2 in doubles ... Won her first two matches at the ITA All-American Championships in the prequalifying bracket ... 1-1 in singles and 2-1 in doubles at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships

5-4 Freshman Dublin, Ohio Dublin-Coffman Fall 2009 Notched a 7-5 record in fall singles and a 4-1 mark in doubles ... Won her first two singles matches at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships, both of which came against Big Ten opponents (Michigan’s Tania Mahtani, Illinois’ Rachel White) ... Victorious in two matches in the Duals in the Desert.

BRITTANY WOWCHUK

BIG TEN 8-1 8-2 8-0 — 24-3

BRITTANY WOWCHUK

High school

KATE TURVY

High school Posted a perfect 59-0 record during her sophomore and junior seasons at Dublin Coffman, winning every match in straight sets ... 2006 and 2007 OHSSA Division I state singles champion ... Competed at the USTA G18 National Team Championships in Berkeley, Calif., helping the Midwest Regional team to the title ... Won six matches at the USTA Interscholastics East in May, 2009, to win the singles bracket ... Captured a Midwest Regional singles championship in October, 2008, winning all six matches she played on the way to the title.

No. 1-ranked juniors player in Canada with seven national juniors championships ... Finalist in U-16 Orange Bowl ... Career-high ITF ranking of 254 ... Gold-medalist in 2008 OFSAA competition.

PERSONAL Born Brittany Jane Wowchuk on 12/16/91 ... Daughter of Brad and Lynda Wowchuk ... One brother, Byron ... Major is undecided.

PERSONAL Born Kathryn E. Turvy on 11/6/90 ... Daughter of Kathleen and John Turvy ... Featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section ... Major is undecided.

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PROGRAM HISTORY 2008-09 Season in review......................................................................................26-27 2008-09 Statistics and dual match results....................................................... 28 All-time series records.......................................................................................... 29 program records...................................................................................................... 29 All-time honors and awards.............................................................................30-32

2008-09 SEASON IN REVIEW A

fter a decade of unparalleled success within the Big Ten Conference, On the Big Ten level, the conference’s top awards again went to the head coach Claire Pollard and her squad proved in the 2008league's most dominant team as Pollard and Mosolova repeated as the 09 season that they are ready to remain a permanent fixture near Big Ten Coach of the Year and Player of the Year, respectively. It was the top of the national rankings. Northwestern held the No. 1 Pollard's fifth career nod as the league's top coach in her 11 years at ranking in the Campbell/ITA College Tennis rankings from Northwestern while Mosolova joined Cristelle Grier as NU's only the preseason through the start of the NCAA Championships two-time Players of the Year, keeping the award in Evanston for an and eventually finished No. 2 in the country for the second eighth straight season. straight year. The Big Ten selected a league-best four Wildcats—Mosolova, By the end of the 2009 season, Rose, Murray and Lui—to the all-conference team for the Northwestern—which in January received a second year in a row. It was the third time in program history preseason No. 1 ranking for the first time in that four NU players received All-Big Ten recognition. program history back—had owned the top spot in the polls in 25 of the last 27 ranking periods. Fall 2008 NU actually concluded spring 2009 with a final t was an eventful fall season for the Wildcats, whose first points average (84.65) that was 0.67 points higher true test came at the All-American Championships in Los than Duke's, but the ITA traditionally awards the Angeles. Rose won her first two matches and picked up a final No. 1 ranking to that year's NCAA champion. win over the 2008 ITA Rookie of the Year, Hilary Barte Northwestern finished the year with a record of 28-2— of Stanford, before falling in the quarterfinals to Marina one win shy of the program-record 29 set in 2008—and Cossou of Cal. Mosolova advanced as far as the semifinals with its 11th straight Big Ten title in tow. The Wildcats by knocking off last year's NCAA singles champion, went 10-0 in the league and posted three sweeps in the Big Georgia Tech's Amanda McDowell. In the semis, Mosolova Ten Tournament to extend their winning streak against dominated Arizona State's Kelcy McKenna in the first set, conference opponents to 77 matches. All told, NU won 70 of 6-0, but was narrowly edged in the next two sets, 7-5 and 72 singles matches as well as 35 of 37 doubles matches in dual 7-6 (4). contests against league opponents. NU came home the following week to host the Wildcat Fall Early in the year, Northwestern valiantly KERI ROBISON at the ITA National Invitational, where freshman Stacey Lee won a closely contested defended the top position thanks to one of Indoor Team Championship three-set match against Selma Salkovic of DePaul to win the flight C the most impressive accomplishments in singles championship. Lee won four matches over the the Claire Pollard era, a title at the ITA National Indoor Team weekend on her way to the title. Championship in February. On their way to becoming just the From there it was on to the Midwest Regional sixth program to win the title in the 22-year history of the event, Championships, where Murray kept the title of the Wildcats knocked off four teams—Miami (Fla.), Notre Dame, Midwest singles champion in Evanston for the eighth Georgia and eventual NCAA champion Duke—that would finish straight season. Murray defeated a pair of Notre Dame the season ranked in the top seven in the country. NU also became players—Kristy Frilling and Kelcy Tefft—in her last two the first Big Ten school and the first northern team to claim the championship. In addition to the team exploits, Northwestern saw unprecedented success on the individual side of things as three Wildcat players earned All-American status in the same season for the first time in program history. Sophomore Maria Mosolova, who entered the NCAA Singles Championship as the top overall seed, reached the quarterfinals to earn her second All-American honor and finished the year ranked No. 2 nationally in singles with a 36-8 record. In doubles, NU’s No. 1 pairing of senior Georgia Rose and junior Lauren Lui won two matches at the NCAAs to reach the quarterfinals, securing Rose's fourth All-American nod (two doubles, two singles) and the first for Lui. The pairing earned the No. 13 spot in the final ITA doubles poll. ALL-AMERICAN Junior Samantha Murray earned her third invitation MARIA MOSOLOVA to the NCAA Singles Championship and finished the year ranked No. 56 nationally with a 34-13 record. Rounding out NU's list of NCAA qualifiers is senior Keri Robison, who received her first bid to the matches. Freshman Elena Chernyakova made her presence known as individual championships thanks to a stellar season at No. 2 doubles well, reaching the quarterfinals thanks to a trio of victories. with Mosolova. The duo finished 25-5 overall with a 22-3 record in After an impressive showing at the Duals in the Desert, where dual matches—including a memorable victory to clinch the doubles Mosolova, Lui and Robison all won their respective singles flights, point against Georgia in the ITA National Indoor Team Championship Mosolova capped the individual season with a run to the semifinals at final—and landed at No. 36 in the ITA doubles rankings at year’s end. the ITA National Indoor Singles Championships. In all, Northwestern concluded the fall with a 74-34 singles record and with eight total singles and doubles titles.

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2008-09 SEASON IN REVIEW Spring 2009

fter garnering the preseason No. 1 ranking for the first time in program history, NU won early-season matches against New Mexico, Tulsa and Texas to enter the ITA Indoor Team Championship as the event’s No. 1 seed. After disposing of Miami (Fla.), Northwestern encountered a tough test against eighthseeded Duke in the quarterfinals. With the team score even at three, the GEORGIA ROSE (foreground) and outcome LAUREN LUI reached All-American status at the 2009 NCAA Doubles hinged on Championships. an intense battle at No. 5 singles between Nazlie Ghazal and Duke’s Melissa Mang. The score in the third set was tied at five with Ghazal trailing 0-30 in her service game, but the NU senior stormed back and lost just one point the rest of the way, winning 7-5 and sending the Wildcats into the semifinals. The next day, Northwestern regrouped to knock off Notre Dame by a 4-1 margin to earn a berth in the finals against Georgia. Robison and Mosolova’s tiebreaker win to secure the doubles point gave the Wildcats momentum in singles, where Murray bested Nadja Gilchrist, 6-4, 6-3, to clinch NU's first title at the event. Bolstered by the team championship, NU sandwiched wins against Georgia Tech and North Carolina around its only regular-season loss of the year, a 4-3 defeat against Duke on Feb. 28. On March 4, Northwestern began defending its 10 consecutive Big Ten titles with a 7-0 win at Wisconsin. NU went on to post its fifth straight undefeated Big Ten season—beating each team except Illinois and Michigan by 7-0 scores—and celebrated its 11th straight title on Senior Day with a sweep of Penn State. NU headed to Wisconsin—also the site of the ITA Indoor Team Championship—for the Big Ten Tournament, where it extended its

winning streak against Big Ten opponents to 77 with wins against Minnesota, Ohio State and Michigan. This marked the fifth year in a row Northwestern downed the Wolverines in the championship match.

NCAA Championships

rom there, the Wildcats entered the NCAA Championships as the top overall seed for the second year in a row and kicked off the tournament with a first-round sweep against first-time tournament qualifier Miami (Ohio) in Evanston. The following day, Northwestern bested a tough 26th-ranked Kentucky team, 4-1, on a chilly, overcast day in Evanston, to earn a spot in the tournament's round of 16 in College Station, Texas, where it faced the same two teams it faced in Tulsa in the 2008 championships. NU handled No. 16 Fresno State, 4-0, thanks in part to Lui and Rose taking down the nation's top-ranked doubles team, Anastasia Petukhova and Renata Kucerkova, to earn a rematch with eighth-seeded California in its third trip to the quarterfinals in the last four years. The match got off to an auspicious start for the Wildcats, with Murray and Chernyakova winning 8-4 at No. 3 doubles to finish the dual season with a remarkable 23-2 dual record. After Cal took the No. 1 match, the Golden Bears eked out the crucial doubles point thanks to a tiebreaker win at the No. 2 spot. Cal held the momentum through the start of singles, winning four first sets, but the Wildcats fought hard to come back. Robison responded after dropping the first set to Stephany Chang 6-0 to take the next two, 6-2, 6-1 and end her senior year with a 31-8 mark. At No. 5, Ghazal came back against 34th-ranked Bojana Bobusic to win the last two sets 6-4, 7-6 (4) to end her career on a 14-match singles winning streak. Lui played a lengthy and memorable first set against No. 54 Claire Ilcinkas, hitting several winners to win 12-10 in an extended tiebreaker. Nevertheless, the Golden Bears eventually picked up the necessary three singles points and dealt NU just its second loss of the year. Although the Wildcats lost three key components of their singles lineup in Rose, Ghazal and Robison, Coach Pollard has plenty of options for the 2010 season thanks to the experience gained last year by Cherynakova and Lee as well as the No. 2-ranked recruiting class that arrived on campus in the fall. As has become routine, this 2009 squad set the bar at the highest heights, but if history is any indication, Northwestern will find a way to raise its standards once again in 2009-10.

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2008-09 STATISTICS AND RESULTS Singles No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Elena Chernyakova 1-0 2-0 Nazlie Ghazal 1-0 8-0 12-1 Stacey Lee 1-0 8-1 Lauren Lui 1-0 8-0 12-5 Maria Mosolova 17-5 Samantha Murray 6-1 13-5 Keri Robison 1-0 8-0 13-3 Georgia Rose 4-0 14-5 TEAM 21-5 21-6 22-5 20-4 22-1 23-4

Dual 3-0 21-1 9-1 21-5 17-5 19-6 22-3 18-5 130-26

Big Ten 3-0 10-0 8-0 9-1 7-0 7-1 8-0 6-0 58-2

Doubles No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Dual Big Ten Chernyakova/Ghazal 2-0 2-0 2-0 Chernyakova/Lui Chernyakova/Mosolova Chernyakova/Murray 23-2 23-2 8-0 Chernyakova/Robison Chernyakova/Rose 2-0 2-0 Ghazal/Lee Ghazal/Robison Lee/Robison Lui/Mosolova 2-0 2-0 Lui/Murray Lui/Rose 18-8 18-8 9-1 Mosolova/Robison 22-3 22-3 10-0 Mosolova/Rose Murray/Robison 2-0 2-0 Murray/Rose TEAM 20-8 24-3 27-2 70-12 29-1

Overall 5-1 1-0 2-1 24-3 4-1 2-0 3-4 0-1 2-1 4-1 0-2 27-13 25-5 0-1 8-2 1-0 108-36

Win % .833 1.000 .667 .889 .800 1.000 .429 .000 .667 .800 .000 .675 .833 .000 .800 1.000 .750

Fall 2-1 1-0 2-1 1-1 3-0 — 2-3 0-1 2-1 — 0-2 7-4 3-1 0-1 4-1 — 25-17

Fall 8-6 9-5 8-1 9-6 12-2 13-5 6-5 6-4 74-34

Overall 12-8 32-6 20-2 34-13 36-8 34-13 31-8 26-11 225-69

GEORGIA ROSE finished 26-11 in singles in her senior season and earned All-American status in doubles for the second time in her career.

2009 DUAL MATCH RESULTS Date Event/Opponent Result Jan. 16-18 Wildcat Invitational NTS Jan. 29 New Mexico W, 7-0 Feb. 1 Tulsa W, 7-0 Feb. 8 Texas W, 6-1 Feb. 13-16 Indoor Team Championship (Madison) vs. Miami (Fla.) W, 6-1 vs. Duke W, 4-3 vs. Notre Dame W, 4-1 vs. Georgia W, 4-1 Feb. 22 Georgia Tech W, 5-2 Feb. 28 Duke L, 4-3 Mar. 1 North Carolina W, 5-2 Mar. 4 Wisconsin * W, 7-0 Mar. 7 Michigan State * W, 7-0 Mar. 13 Illinois * W, 6-1 Mar. 14 Indiana * W, 7-0 Mar. 27 Fresno State W, 4-2 Mar. 29 Michigan * W, 6-1

Date Event/Opponent Result Apr. 4 Notre Dame W, 4-3 Apr. 5 Purdue * W, 7-0 Apr. 9 William & Mary W, 6-1 Apr. 11 Minnesota * W, 7-0 Apr. 12 Iowa * W, 7-0 Apr. 18 Ohio State * W, 7-0 Apr. 19 Penn State * W, 7-0 Apr. 24-26 Big Ten Tournament (Madison, Wis.) vs. Minnesota (outdoors) W, 4-0 vs. Ohio State (indoors) W, 4-0 vs. Michigan (indoors) W, 4-0 May 8-9 NCAA Regional (Evanston, Ill.) vs. Miami (Ohio) W, 4-0 vs. Kentucky W, 4-1 May 15-19 NCAA Tournament (College Station, Texas) vs. Fresno State W, 4-0 vs. California L, 4-2 Home matches in Bold * Designates Big Ten match

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Win % .600 .842 .905 .723 .818 .723 .795 .702 .765

ALL-TIME PROGRAM RECORDS ALL-TIME SERIES RECORDS Opponent W L Alabama 3 1 Arizona 2 1 Arizona State 0 3 Arkansas-Little Rock 1 0 Aurora 1 0 Ball State 1 0 Baylor 3 0 Boston College 1 0 Brigham Young 11 11 California 1 6 California-Irvine 1 0 California-Santa Barbara 1 1 Cal State-Fullerton 2 1 Cal State-Northridge 2 0 Cal State-Riverside 1 0 Chicago 1 0 Clemson 4 3 Colorado 2 0 DePaul 8 0 Drake 1 0 Duke 5 10 Eastern Illinois 2 0 Eastern Michigan 6 0 East Texas State 1 0 Florida 1 8 Florida State 5 0 Fresno State 5 2 Furman 2 0 Georgia 4 3

Opponent Georgia Tech Harper College Harvard Hawaii Houston Illinois Illinois-Chicago Illinois State Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kalamazoo College Kansas Kansas State Kentucky Long Beach State Louisiana State Marquette Miami (Fla.) Miami (Ohio) Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Mississippi Mississippi State Missouri Murray State Nebraska New Mexico

W L 4 2 1 0 10 1 2 0 1 0 40 7 6 0 9 2 23 25 35 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 3 1 9 2 1 0 1 0 9 0 6 3 7 0 45 8 33 1 32 5 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0

Opponent North Carolina North Carolina State Northern Illinois North Florida North Texas State Notre Dame Ohio State Oklahoma State Oral Roberts Pacific Penn State Pepperdine Portland Princeton Purdue Rollins San Diego San Diego State South Alabama South Carolina South Florida Southern California Southern Illinois S. Illinois-Edwardsville Southern Methodist Stanford Tennessee

W L 5 9 1 1 10 0 1 0 0 1 24 10 30 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 25 0 1 8 1 0 3 1 37 1 1 1 1 6 4 8 2 0 3 0 5 1 1 5 7 0 2 0 3 3 0 4 2 3

NU COACHING RECORDS

Year

1976

Coach

June Booth 1977 June Booth 1978 June Booth 1979 June Booth 1980 Sandy Stap 1981 Sandy Stap 1982 Sandy Stap 1983 Sandy Stap Clifton 1984 Sandy Stap Clifton 1985 Sandy Stap Clifton 1986 Sandy Stap Clifton 1987 Sandy Stap Clifton 1988 Sandy Stap Clifton 1989 Sandy Stap Clifton 1990 Lisa Fortman 1991 Lisa Fortman 1992 Lisa Fortman 1993 Lisa Fortman 1994 Lisa Fortman 1995 Lisa Fortman 1996 Lisa Fortman 1997 Lisa Fortman 1998 Lisa Fortman 1999 Claire Pollard 2000 Claire Pollard 2001 Claire Pollard 2002 Claire Pollard 2003 Claire Pollard 2004 Claire Pollard 2005 Claire Pollard 2006 Claire Pollard 2007 Claire Pollard 2008 Claire Pollard 2009 Claire Pollard Totals

Dual Record 3-4 12-2 14-6 10-9 16-7 26-9 28-5 25-6 22-7 24-7 26-4 22-4 11-18 16-7 17-7 15-6 11-12 13-11 17-3 17-5 18-8 11-13 13-11 19-5 24-5 24-5 23-6 19-9 25-5 26-3 24-5 23-5 29-2 28-2 648-223

Big Ten Record — — — — — — 13-3 12-1 11-1 12-0 10-0 9-1 8-3 9-2 8-3 8-4 6-4 7-3 10-3 11-2 8-2 5-5 8-2 9-1 8-2 10-0 10-0 8-2 9-1 10-0 10-0 10-0 10-0 10-0 259-45

Big Ten Place

Opponent W L Texas 8 3 Texas A&M 6 1 TCU 1 1 Texas-San Antonio 1 0 Trinity (Texas) 2 7 Tulane 1 0 Tulsa 2 0 UCLA 3 3 U.S. International 4 1 Utah 4 0 Valparaiso 2 0 Vanderbilt 2 1 Wake Forest 2 1 Washington 5 1 Weber State 1 0 West Chester State 1 0 Western Kentucky 2 0 Western Michigan 10 0 Wheaton (Ill.) 6 1 William & Mary 5 2 Wisconsin 42 15 Wisconsin-Whitewater 1 0 Totals 549 206 2009-10 opponents in bold

ALL-TIME PROGRAM RECORDS NCAA Place

— — — — — — — — — — — — 2nd 9th 2nd 9th 2nd 9th 1st 9th 1st 5th 2nd 5th 3rd — 3rd — 2nd — 3rd — 3rd — 4th — 3rd — 2nd — 2nd 4th — 2nd — 1st — 1st — 1st 9th 1st 9th 1st — 1st 9th 1st 9th 1st 5th 1st 9th 1st 5th 1st 5th

ITA Final

13th 25th 24th 43rd 42nd 24th 15th 9th 9th 18th 5th 8th 8th 2nd 2nd

Team Most Wins In A Season—29, 2008 Most Shutouts—15, 2008 Best Winning Pct.—.935, 2008 Most Consecutive Wins—23, 2008 Individual Records Singles Career Wins—181, Cristelle Grier, 2002-2006 Season Wins—51, Audra Cohen, 2005 Consecutive Matches Won—29, Georgia Rose, 2006 Consecutive Sets Won—32, Kim Gandy, 1983 Winning Percentage—.935 (29-2), Diane Donnelly, 1985 Fewest Sets Lost—6, Marjorie Gantman, 1994; Kelly Boyse, 1986; Diane Donnelly, 1985; Kim Gandy, 1983 Doubles Season Wins—41, Cristelle Grier/ Jessica Rush, 2003 Consecutive Matches Won—21, Katrina Adams/Diane Donnelly, 1987 Consecutive Sets Won—28, Katrina Adams/ Diane Donnelly, 1987 Winning Percentage—1.000 (21-0), Katrina Adams/Diane Donnelly, 1987 Fewest Sets Lost—2, Katrina Adams/Diane Donnelly, 1987

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HONORS AND AWARDS ALL-AMERICANS

NCAA CHAMPIONS 1987 Katrina Adams......................... doubles Diane Donnelly........................ doubles 2006 Cristelle Grier........................... doubles Alexis Prousis.......................... doubles

NCAA QUALIFIERS 1982 Courtney Lord .............singles, doubles Tina Oeschle.............................. singles Randi Rosen.............................. singles Cynthia Brightfield.....................doubles 1983 Courtney Lord .............singles, doubles Maeve Quinlan.............singles, doubles Randi Rosen.............................. singles 1984 Diane Donnelly.........................doubles Eva Lucido................................doubles Maeve Quinlan.............singles, doubles Courtney Lord...........................doubles 1985 Stephanie Lightvoet...... singles, doubles Kirstin Laux..................................singles Kim Gandy.................... singles, doubles 1986 Katrina Adams.............singles, doubles Diane Donnelly............singles, doubles 1987 Lynn Nabors............................... singles Katrina Adams.............singles, doubles Diane Donnelly............singles, doubles 1990 Lindsay Matthews.....................doubles Wendy Nelson...........................doubles 1991 Lindsay Matthews...................... singles 1998 Katherine Nasser....................... singles 1999 Laura Guignon..........................doubles Katherine Nasser......................doubles 2000 Katherine Nasser.........singles, doubles Colleen Cheng..........................doubles 2001 Colleen Cheng........................... singles Lia Jackson................................ singles 2002 Marine Piriou................singles, doubles Jessica Rush............................doubles 2003 Cristelle Grier...............singles, doubles Jessica Rush............................doubles 2004 Cristelle Grier...............singles, doubles Jessica Rush...............singles, doubles 2005 Audra Cohen................singles, doubles Cristelle Grier...............singles, doubles 2006 Georgia Rose............................. singles Cristelle Grier...............singles, doubles Alexis Prousis..............singles, doubles 2007 Samantha Murray.................... singles Alexis Prousis...........................doubles Georgia Rose...............singles, doubles 2008 Lauren Lui............... singles, doubles Maria Mosolova....................... singles Samantha Murray.................... singles Georgia Rose...............singles, doubles 2009 Lauren Lui..............................doubles Maria Mosolova....... singles, doubles Samantha Murray.................... singles Keri Robison.............................doubles Georgia Rose...............singles, doubles

ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT 1987 Diane Donnelly 1996 Siri Eklund 1997 Marjorie Gantman

1984 Maeve Quinn 1986 Katrina Adams.............. singles, doubles Diane Donnelly............. singles, doubles 1987 Katrina Adams.............. singles, doubles Diane Donnelly............. singles, doubles 2003 Cristelle Grier..............................singles 2004 Cristelle Grier............... singles, doubles Jessica Rush............................. doubles 2005 Audra Cohen................ singles, doubles Cristelle Grier............... singles, doubles 2006 Cristelle Grier............... singles, doubles Alexis Prousis............................ doubles 2007 Alexis Prousis............................ doubles Georgia Rose............... singles, doubles 2008 Maria Mosolova........................singles Georgia Rose..............................singles 2009 Lauren Lui............................... doubles Maria Mosolova........................singles Georgia Rose............................ doubles

ITA ALL-AMERICAN CHAMPIONS 2004

Audra Cohen

ITA NATIONAL INDOOR DOUBLES CHAMPIONS 2003 Cristelle Grier/Jessica Rush 2004 Audra Cohen/Cristelle Grier

KATRINA ADAMS (right) and DIANE DONNELLY took the 1987 NCAA Doubles title and earned All-America honors.

WILSON/ITA NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR 2008

CRISTELLE GRIER became Northwestern’s first four-time All-American in 2006.

Claire Pollard

WILSON/ITA MIDWEST REGIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR 2001 2003 2005 2008

Claire Pollard Claire Pollard Claire Pollard Claire Pollard

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WILSON/ITA MIDWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONS 1999 Katherine Nasser 2001 Marine Piriou 2002 Cristelle Grier 2003 Cristelle Grier 2004 Audra Cohen 2005 Alexis Prousis 2007 Georgia Rose 2008 Samantha Murray 2009 Maria Mosolova

HONORS AND AWARDS MARJORIE GANTMAN, a three-time All-Big Ten selection, held NU's all-time win record until 2000.

SIRI EKLUND was the first of eight Wildcats to take home Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors.

MIDWEST REGION HEAD/ARTHUR ASHE JR. SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD 1989

Julie Willett

ITA NATIONAL SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNER 2009

Lauren Lui

ITA MIDWEST ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR 2005 2008

Leigh Weinraub Dave Mullins

ITA MIDWEST REGIONAL DOUBLES CHAMPIONS 1997 Katherine Nasser/Laura Guignon 2003 Cristelle Grier/Jessica Rush 2004 Audra Cohen/Cristelle Grier 2005 Cristelle Grier/Alexis Prousis

RUTH BARNES was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection for the Wildcats from 2002-04.

ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN 1984 Kim Gandy 2000 Lia Jackson 1986 Diane Donnelly Leigh Weinraub 1987 Diane Donnelly 2001 Lia Jackson Jennifer Hilton Marine Piriou Christina Schuschel 2002 Ruth Barnes 1988 Kelly Boyse Connie Chiang Christina Schuschel Lia Jackson 1989 Cindy Galloway Stacy Kokx Wendy Nelson Simona Petrutiu Christina Schuschel Marine Piriou 1990 Lindsay Matthews Jessica Rush Wendy Nelson 2003 Ruth Barnes Julie Willett Connie Chiang 1991 Lindsay Matthews Stacy Kokx Wendy Nelson Jessica Rush Julie Willett Andrew Yung 1992 Lindsay Matthews 2004 Ruth Barnes Julie Willett Connie Chiang 1993 Amy Heath Cristelle Grier Joanna Feria Stacy Kokx 1994 Siri Eklund Jessica Rush Joanna Feria Andrea Yung Elissa Kim 2005 Cristelle Grier 1995 Siri Eklund Andrea Yung Joanna Feria 2006 Alexis Conill Marjorie Gantman Feriel Esseghir Ana Gonzalez Cristelle Grier Elissa Kim Jamie Peisel 1996 Siri Eklund 2007 Alexis Conill Marjorie Gantman Alexis Prousis Elissa Kim Jennifer Taylor 1997 Marjorie Gantman 2008 Alexis Conill 1998 Laura Guignon Lauren Lui Katherine Nasser Suzie Matzenauer 1999 Colleen Cheng Samantha Murray Laura Guignon Georgia Rose Robyn Porter 2009 Lauren Lui Leigh Weinraub Maria Mosolova Samantha Murray Keri Robison Georgia Rose

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HONORS AND AWARDS ALL-BIG TEN

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

1985 1986 1999 2000 2001

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

1984 Maeve Quinlan Katherine Nasser Courtney Lord Randi Rosen 1985 Kim Gandy Kristin Laux Stephanie Lightvoet 1986 Katrina Adams Diane Donnelly Stephanie Lightvoet 1987 Katrina Adams Diane Donnelly Lynn Nabors 1988 Christina Schuschel 1989 Christina Schuschel 1990 Lindsay Matthews Wendy Nelson 1991 Lindsay Matthews 1992 Branaca Elsberry Lindsay Matthews 1993 Branaca Elsberry Siri Eklund 1995 Siri Eklund Marjorie Gantman 1996 Siri Eklund Marjorie Gantman 1997 Marjorie Gantman Katherine Nasser 1998 Shannon Duffy Eva Lucido 1999 Shannon Duffy Laura Guignon Katherine Nasser

2007 2008 2009

BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR

1993 1997 2000 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008

Siri Eklund Katherine Nasser Marine Piriou Cristelle Grier Audra Cohen Georgia Rose Samantha Murray Maria Mosolova

BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR

1998 Katherine Nasser 2002 Marine Piriou 2003 Cristelle Grier 2004 Cristelle Grier 2005 Audra Cohen 2006 Cristelle Grier 2007 Georgia Rose 2008 Maria Mosolova 2009 Maria Mosolova

BIG TEN COACH OF THE YEAR

2001 Claire Pollard 2004 Claire Pollard 2005 Claire Pollard 2008 Claire Pollard 2009 Claire Pollard

2000 Shannon Duffy Katherine Nasser 2001 Colleen Cheng Lia Jackson 2002 Lia Jackson Marine Piriou Jessica Rush 2003 Cristelle Grier Jessica Rush Jamie Peisel 2004 Cristelle Grier Jessica Rush 2005 Audra Cohen Cristelle Grier Alexis Prousis 2006 Cristelle Grier Alexis Prousis Georgia Rose 2007 Sam Murray Alexis Prousis Georgia Rose 2008 Lauren Lui Maria Mosolova Sam Murray Georgia Rose 2009 Lauren Lui Maria Mosolova Sam Murray Georgia Rose

BIG TEN SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR

1996 Siri Eklund (award discontinued)

CRISTELLE GRIER earned All-Big Ten honors in each of her four years at Northwestern from 2003-06. KATHERINE NASSER was a four-time All-Big Ten selection for the Wildcats from 1997-00.

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THE UNIVERSITY THIS IS NORTHWESTERN............................................................................................... 34 SCHOOLS OF NORTHWESTERN.................................................................................... 35 PRESIDENT morton Schapiro.................................................................................. 36 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AND RECREATION JIM PHILLIPS...................................... 37 ACADEMIC SERVICES and student development............................................... 38 athletic excellence.................................................................................................. 39 Athletic Endowments............................................................................................... 40

The highest order of excellence N

orthwestern University was founded in 1851 as a private institution of “the highest order of excellence” to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. Today one of the nation’s premier universities, Northwestern occupies two campuses along the shore of Lake Michigan and is connected by both geography and programming to one of the nation’s great cities, Chicago. In addition, Northwestern has a campus in Doha, Qatar. In this midsize research university, 11 schools— each with relatively small academic departments—offer high-quality programs spanning a remarkably diverse portfolio. Northwestern is recognized both nationally and internationally for the quality of its educational programs at all levels. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the University’s undergraduate and graduate programs among the best in the country.

more about Northwestern • From 25,000 freshman candidates each year, about 6,500 are offered admission for a freshman class size of 2,000. • Students from all 50 states and more than 50 foreign countries make up the undergraduate student body of approximately 8,000. The undergraduate population is about 54 percent women, and just under 30 percent are African American, Hispanic or Asian American. Total enrollment is approximately 17,000, including 1,100 part-time students in evening programs of the School of Continuing Studies. • Undergraduate financial aid is need based. More than half of all Northwestern undergraduates receive some combination of needbased scholarships, student loans and work-study employment. • Among the more than 50 fellowships awarded to students or alumni in 2008–09 were two Rhodes, one Marshall, four Gates Cambridge and 32 Fulbright Scholarships. • Among graduate programs, the J.L. Kellogg School of Management regularly ranks among the top five business schools in the country for both its traditional curriculum and its executive master’s program. • U.S. News & World Report placed Northwestern’s School of Law in the top 10 law schools nationally and the Feinberg School of Medicine in the top 20 medical programs. In its most recent assessment of doctoral programs, the National Research Council ranked five Northwestern programs in the top 10 percent nationally and 10 programs in the top 25 percent.

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on the shore of lake michigan The unde rg rad u at e sc h ool s The Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is the largest of Northwestern’s undergraduate schools with more than 4,000 undergraduate students and 500 faculty members. It is the cornerstone of a University that believes study in the liberal arts and sciences is the foundation of a strong undergraduate education. Students may enhance their studies with independent research projects, ad hoc majors or minors, Chicago field studies and study abroad. The School of Communication offers opportunities for study in five top-ranking departments: communication sciences and disorders, communication studies, performance studies, radio/television/film and theatre. Cocurricular opportunities include the top debate team in the country, hospital internships, student video and film projects, theater productions and the largest student-run college radio station in the country. The School of Education and Social Policy started as a department in the College of Liberal Arts and became a separate school of education in 1926. “Social policy” was added to its name in 1986 to reflect a distinctive mission among schools of education—to understand and improve learning communities (schools and classrooms, workplace settings, families and neighborhoods), to study lifelong learning and to improve lives through policy. By producing scholarly research that informs and influences public policy-making about education, this small school (350 undergraduates, 300 graduate students and 23 faculty) has earned national recognition. In the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, about 1,300 undergraduates and approximately 750 graduate students choose from among 15 majors, including such interdisciplinary fields as materials science, biomedical engineering and environmental engineering. Recent curriculum innovations and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center give students exceptional opportunities for team learning, collaborative projects and computer-assisted learning. The Medill School of Journalism prepares students for careers in newspapers, magazines, broadcast journalism, new media or integrated marketing communications. Medill students have consistently won in the Hearst Foundation’s National Writing, Photojournalism and Broadcast News Championships, the Pulitzer Prize competition of college journalism; and its students dominate the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Awards competition. Established in 1895 as an integral part of the University, the HENRY AND LEIGH BIENEN School of Music combines a nationally ranked music program of conservatory intensity with the academic rigor and scholarly resources found only at a firstrank research university. Students are encouraged to grow as both artists and people and to explore the myriad career options available in a life devoted to music. Artists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and other world-class performing organizations are among the faculty.

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university president morton Schapiro M

orton Owen Schapiro was named 16th president of Northwestern University on December 16, 2008 and began his term on September 1, 2009. President Schapiro is among the nation’s premier authorities on the economics of higher education, with particular expertise in the area of college financing and affordability and on trends in educational costs and student aid. He is widely quoted in the national media and has testified before U.S. Senate and House committees on economic and educational issues. Before coming to Northwestern, he was president of Williams College from 2000 to 2009. Among the initiatives implemented during his presidency were a substantial reduction in average class size, a tripling of the number of courses offered in the college’s signature tutorial program and the completion of a number of major building projects including a center for theatre and dance, a student center and new faculty office/classroom buildings. Courses taught by President Schapiro at Williams College included introductory microeconomics, a tutorial on the economics of higher education and two interdisciplinary seminars, one on the economics and philosophy of education and the other on disease, culture and society. He previously served as a member of the Williams College faculty from 1980 to 1991, as Professor of Economics and as Assistant Provost. In 1991 he went to the University of Southern California where he served as Chair of the Department of Economics until 1994 and then as Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences until 2000. During his last two years as Dean, he also served as the University’s Vice President for Planning. President Schapiro has written more than 100 articles and five books, and he has edited two others, most with his longtime co-author Michael McPherson. These include: The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education (Princeton University

Press 1998); Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives and Financing in Higher Education (also with Gordon Winston, University of Michigan Press 1993) and Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity (Brookings 1991), plus two recent edited volumes College Success: What It Means and How to Make It Happen (College Board 2008) and College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? (College Board 2006).

President Schapiro has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the World Bank, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the College Board, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other groups to study the economics of higher education and related topics. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Hofstra University in 1975 and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. President Schapiro and his wife Mimi have three children: Matt, Alissa and Rachel.

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ames J. Phillips became Northwestern’s 21st director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation on April 14, 2008, bringing a track record of Division I success and a commitment to the values NU always has maintained in collegiate athletics. “The opportunity to lead Northwestern’s athletic and recreation programs is both exciting and humbling,” Phillips said. “Northwestern is a world-class institution that does things right in terms of college athletics and what they stand for.” One of 10 children, Phillips, who grew up in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, is the perfect fit to head up NU’s 19-sport program in the nation’s No. 3 market. His Windy City roots and family orientation are integral parts of his philosophy of providing student-athletes with a “world-class experience” that enables them to succeed academically, socially and athletically. One of Phillips’ first actions at Northwestern was to begin the implementation of a Department of Athletics and Recreation re-organization that was completed in January of 2009. NU’s existing departments were broken into three key “silos:” internal, external and student-athlete welfare. Northwestern’s stellar marketing and promotions staff continued to excel in 2008-09, winning its sixth national NACMA award since 2003. Ticket sales for Big Ten football home games went up 17 percent, men’s basketball sales improved 13 percent for weekend games and overall attendance was up at all seven of NU’s admission-charging sports. New courtside seating at Welsh-Ryan Arena sold out for the men’s basketball season. NU signed corporate sponsorship deals with Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Harris Bank, re-branded its media rights holder to Northwestern Sports Properties (NSP), defeated Notre Dame at U.S. Cellular Field in baseball and created an Annual Report to showcase the department’s previous year. Phillips hired ultra-successful women’s basketball coach Joe McKeown in June of 2008. McKeown came to Evanston after 19 years at George Washington, where he took his team to the postseason 17 times and compiled a 509-174 record. Phillips’ second coaching hire was to name Tracey Fuchs the head of the field hockey program in January of 2009. Fuchs had arguably the most successful playing career in USA Field Hockey history and has been referred to as the “Michael Jordan of field hockey.” In 2009, Phillips signed a four-year deal with WGN Radio, the long-time radio outlet of Northwestern football and men’s basketball. In addition to those two sports, a new weekly Inside

Wildcat Athletics show will air on The Voice of Chicago through the 2012-13 season. Phillips also inked head football coach Pat Fitzgerald to a new seven-year deal that will keep him on the Wildcat sidelines through 2015. Northwestern had a great athletic year in 2008-09, beginning in the fall with the Wildcats’ 9-4 Alamo Bowl season. The team became the fifth in NU history to win nine contests, finishing No. 23 in the BCS. The football team also earned a program-record 26 Academic All-Big Ten awards and earned a 3.0 or better team GPA during the spring quarter for the highest team GPA in school history. In addition, men’s soccer made its second appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals in the last three years. In the winter, men’s basketball earned NU’s first postseason bid during head coach Bill Carmody’s tenure. Northwestern recorded its fourth-straight year with an individual national champion when Jake Herbert won the 184-lbs wrestling title, the Hodge Trophy as the nation’s top collegiate wrestler and the Big Ten’s Jesse Owens Award. In the spring, Northwestern won its fifthstraight NCAA women’s lacrosse title and Hannah Nielsen repeated as the Tewaaraton Trophy winner. Women’s tennis ranked No. 1 for much of the year and won the ITA Indoor national title, a first for a northern school. Men’s tennis made a great turnaround to qualify for the NCAA Tournament and men’s golf made the NCAA Championships. Seven of NU’s eight men’s teams had postseason representation in 2008-09, making it arguably the top year for men’s athletics at NU in history. Academically and in the community, the Wildcats had a banner year in 2008-09. Northwestern touted a school-record-tying 879 studentathlete quarters in which a 3.0 GPA was earned, and 17 teams achieved a 3.0 or better team GPA. All 19 varsity squads recorded a 2.9 or better mark for two academic quarters (fall and spring) for the first time in school history. Northwestern’s combined student-athlete GPA for the spring was a school-record 3.21. NU’s APR and GSR scores ranked in the nation’s top five and 10, respectively. In the community, student-athletes volunteered a school-record 5,346 hours while serving 66 organizations in Evanston and greater Chicagoland. In June of 2009, Phillips served on the NCAA Champions Forum panel. The panel consisted of football coaches and athletics directors making an effort to bring minority football coaches closer to the mindset of those who hire football coaches. He also is part of the NCAA Mentoring Program, the NACDA Executive Committee and the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee. Beginning in 2004, Phillips served as Northern Illinois’ athletic director for four years. In 2006, he was promoted to associate vice president in addition to his director of athletics title. He was chosen to serve as chairman of the MAC Athletic Director’s Council and also served on the NCAA

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women’s basketball selection committee. Phillips spearheaded the fund raising and construction of the $14-million Yordon Academic and Athletic Performance Center, the largest capital project in athletics history at NIU. The Huskies also opened an indoor practice facility for baseball, softball and men’s and women’s golf and began construction in the spring of 2008 on a soccer/track and field complex. During Phillips’ tenure at NIU, he helped schedule football games with Michigan and Ohio State that resulted in NIU’s first national TV appearances. He negotiated playing Iowa at Soldier Field in 2007 as a home game, a contest that sold out in less than a week. Phillips also signed a multiple-year agreement for the radio power WSCR-AM (The Score) to carry football, men’s basketball and a weekly NIU Live radio show. A 1990 Illinois graduate, Phillips worked as a manager and student assistant in the Illini’s athletic department. He earned a master’s degree in education at Arizona State (1992) while serving as a restricted earnings basketball coach before moving into athletics administration in the Arizona State development office. Phillips holds a Ph.D. in educational administration from Tennessee, completed in 2007. Phillips served as an assistant athletics director with the Volunteers until 2000. He directed a $12.4 million annual athletics giving program and aided in the first-ever capital campaign for athletics at UT that raised over $50 million for endowments, facilities and programs. Phillips moved to Notre Dame in 2000, serving as associate director of athletics and senior associate director of athletics for external affairs. He helped launch the Rockne Heritage Annual Fund and played an integral part in the funding of a $24-million, 96,000-square foot athletic facility. In addition, he managed the ticket office, various corporate sponsorships, athletic programs and a weekly Irish radio show. Phillips and his wife, Laura, have five children: Luke, Madeline, Meredith, John and James.

The Phillips family: (from left) Front: John, Meredith and Madeline. Back: Laura (holding James), Luke and Jim.

academic services and student development

Margaret Akerstrom Associate AD

Betsi Burns Assistant AD Director of Student Development

Mission Statement “The mission of the Office of Academic Services and Student Development is to offer a comprehensive array of the support programs and services, integrated with University resources, that empowers all student-athletes to achieve academic success while balancing the demands of athletic participation and everyday college life. The Office is built on the philosophy of individual responsibility and personal integrity, with the end result being the overall development and preparation of the studentathletes for a successful life after college.”

Shea’na Grigsby Academic Advisor

Mary Beth Hawkinson Associate Director

Davon Robb Intern

The staff of Academic Services and Student Development assists student athletes in their pursuit of academic excellence. The professional staff, which consists of four full-time advisors and an intern, helps the students make the most of all of the opportunities Northwestern University offers. freshman assistance. The advisors work closely with the freshmen to help ease the transition from high school to college. The freshmen meet weekly with their advisors to discuss their performance in the classroom and to receive academic assistance when necessary. The evening study skills/tutoring program is held at the University Library 7 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The tutoring staff consists of mostly graduate students, with some outstanding undergraduates rounding out the 30-plus staff. The tutors are available for drop-in assistance, small group learning teams and individualized tutorial sessions. registration advising. In close collaboration with the advising staffs in each of the six undergraduate schools, the Academic Services and Student Development staff also provides advice to help student-athletes develop a plan of study, including guidance in selecting majors and minors. An important component of their services is course registration advising. Prior to the beginning of each quarter, student-athletes meet individually first with their schools’ academic advisors and then with their athletic advisors to plan their curriculum for the upcoming quarter and discuss the registration process. career planning. Preparation for a productive and successful entry into the workforce or graduate school begins during the freshman-year orientation programs. In conjunction with University Career Services, the provision of career counseling and the education of job search skills help Northwestern student-athletes obtain relevant summer employment and internships, as well as permanent employment or graduate school admissions upon graduation. The ’CATS Life Skills Program includes programs on major selection, finding a summer internship, securing a full time job, and the transition from school to work. The N club has partnered with the Life Skills program to provide mentoring opportunities as well as to facilitate internships and full-time employment. With the numerous companies and organizations that specifically recruit Northwestern student-athletes and with the help of the Wildcat network of alumni and fans, excellent job opportunities in all fields are possible.

NU academic advisor named best in the nation

ssociate Director for Academic Services & Director of Student Development Betsi Burns has been honored with the 2008 Lan Hewlett Award from the National Association of Academic Advisors in Athletics. The award, given for outstanding performance as an Academic Advisor for Athletics, is presented to an advisor who, in part, achieves a merited stature among and support from student-athletes, faculty, coaches and fellow administrators in addition to creating an innovative response

to the varied and emerging needs of student-athletes. It also recognizes significant contributions and leadership to the field both nationally and within the university. An 11-year veteran as an academic advisor at Northwestern, Burns has an impressive list of accomplishments in that time span. She has instituted the Junior Jumpstart and Senior Transition workshops, implemented the PURPLE Peer Mentoring Program and launched the Career Athlete program that currently has

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50 mentors and 150 student-athletes registered with multiple job postings. Burns developed “An Insider’s Guide to Northwestern Athletics” and also created Field Day, an event that has brought together student-athletes from all 19 of NU’s varsity sports and hundreds of community children for the past nine years. Burns has done all this while serving as an academic advisor to over 150 student-athletes.

athletic excellence N

orthwestern University’s athletic department is consistently one of the finest in the Big Ten and the nation. The school has gained prominence in the last 15 years with the renewed success of the Wildcat football team, but fans who know college athletics know that Northwestern has long been a hidden gem in numerous other sports. A quick look across the board yields some truths about the quality of the Wildcats’ 19 varsity programs—and makes it no surprise to find out that Northwestern has been ranked in the Top 25 of The Sporting News listing of the top athletic departments in the nation every year that TSN has performed the survey. Since the 1995-96 athletic year, Northwestern has had 40 conference players of the year, 28 conference rookies of the year, and 29 conference coaches of the year. Twenty-six teams have been crowned with a conference championship, and 62 individuals have won Big Ten titles while 595 have received All-Big Ten recognition. Northwestern athletes have been accorded 130 first-team All-America honors during that time, while six different NU coaches have earned National Coach of the Year honors since 1997. Northwestern also has added five NCAA team championships (women’s lacrosse in 2005-09) and nine NCAA individual titles to its ledger. Northwestern finished 44th in this past year’s U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings after posting three-consecutive top-30 finishes from 2005-07. Northwestern’s five-year run of finishing among the top-45 Division I programs in the country marks its best-overall stretch of athletic success. Northwestern’s athletes also deliver in the classroom—the department has had more than 1,530 Academic All-Big Ten certificates delivered since 1995-96, including more than 100 each of the last 10 years. The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) has honored a Northwestern athlete 28 times with Academic All-America recognition, and 81 times with Academic All-District accolades. The women’s lacrosse team recorded its fifth-consecutive NCAA title. Senior Hannah Nielsen (bottom right) won the Tewaaraton Trophy for the second-straight year.

2008 Valero Alamo Bowl

The No. 1-ranked wildcats captured their 11th-straight Big Ten Championship and won the ITA Indoor Championship in 2009.

Northwestern freshman ERIC CHUN won the Big Ten Individual title and helped the ’Cats advance to the NCAA Men’s Golf National Championships.

The MEN’S SOCCER TEAM tied a school wins record and reached a program-best No. 2 national ranking. It also advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals for the second time in three years.

Senior jake herbert was the 2009 NCAA champion and Dan Hodge Trophy recipient, which is presented annually to the nation’s most dominant collegiate wrestler. Herbert also was named the Big Ten’s Jesse Owens Award winner, given to the top male athlete across all sports in the Big Ten Conference.

athletic endowments Through The Generosity... Each year more than 100 Northwestern student-athletes, representing all sports, are awarded a prestigious endowed scholarship, thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends of the Wildcats. These donors and recipients met for the annual Endowed Athletic Scholarship Luncheon.

• Alex Agase and Tom Noble Honorary Scholarship • Alex Agase Wildcats’ Scholarship

• Stanley E. and Louise G. Hathaway Scholarship

• Nelson R. Nedde Memorial Scholarship

• Jennie Stoker Helwig Scholarship

• Robert and Dorothy Osborn Endowed Scholarship

• John L. Hennerich Baseball Scholarship

• Harold and Virginia Anderson Scholarship • Harry D. Brookby Baseball Scholarship • Henry S. Bienen Basketball Scholarship

• Jay and Michaela Hoag Basketball Scholarship

• Carleton H. and Bradford H. Pendleton Memorial Scholarship

• Thomas J. Hoehn Tennis Scholarship

• James J. Progar Athletic Scholarship • Ray Regalis Basketball Scholarship

• Henry S. Bienen Tennis Scholarship

• James and Mary Jo Rausch Family Scholarship

• Patricia and Albert Buehler Scholarship

• Robert K. Rauth Scholarship

• Dr. James R. Buntain Endowed Basketball Scholarship

• Patrick and Shirley Ryan Family Scholarships

• Willard J. and Evelyn G. Buntain Family Football Scholarship

• Steve and Audrey Sawle Scholarship • Paul and Margaret Schutt Scholarship

• John and Rita Canning Student-Athlete Scholarships

• Walter K. Smart Scholarship

• Ronald J. and Elizabeth D. Chinnock Scholarship

samantha murray received an endowed scholarship last season.

• Vandy Christie Memorial Scholarship

• Thomas J. and Dorothy Somers Hoehn Athletic Scholarships

• Combe Family Tennis Scholarships • June S. Cordier Memorial Scholarship

• Thomas J. and Dorothy Somers Hoehn Memorial Scholarship

• Dean Family Scholarship

• Dr. Robert W. Johnson Memorial Scholarship

• Richard H. and Jane S. Dean Scholarship • Ross and Elizabeth Dean Football Scholarship • Bruce and Betty DeSwarte Scholarship • Eggemeyer Family Endowed Scholarships • Raymond F. Farley Endowed Scholarship • Waldo Fisher Memorial Scholarships • Scott Freidheim Soccer Scholarship • Bon and Holly French Swimming Scholarship • Edwin C. Gage Memorial Scholarship

• Ronald E. Kiper Memorial Scholarship • Koldyke Family Scholarship

• Stearns Family Scholarship • Marie Mikkelsen Stoker Swimming Scholarship • Bruce Thompson Wrestling Scholarship • Torch of Center Court Scholarship • Joseph H. Trienens Swimming Scholarship • Bob and Charlotte Voigts Recognition Scholarship • Randy Walker Memorial Football Scholarship

• Laird Koldyke Baseball Scholarship

• Sidney Warshauer and Joseph Stein Athletic Scholarship

• Mildred and Sidney LaPidus Scholarship

• Philip J. Weber Scholarship

• Robert F. and Gordon E. Lietzow Athletic Scholarship

• Mr. and Mrs. Roger LeMoyne White Basketball Scholarships

• Sophia and Konstandino Loukas Endowed Scholarship

• Mildred White Endowed Football Scholarship

• Shirley Louise Malloy Memorial Scholarship

• Charles “Doc” and Helen Glass Scholarship

• Gene G. and Merrill H. Mundy Athletic Scholarship

• John H. Glenn Memorial Scholarship

• N Club Scholarship

• Trent Whitney Endowed Scholarship • Alfred S. Wiltberger Memorial Scholarship

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Northwestern Athletic Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Key Principles Deliver on a World-Class student-athlete experience. Know and adhere to all NCAA, Big Ten and NU rules and regulations. Maintain strict financial integrity and responsibility. Compete for and win championships in all programs. Represent the institution in a positive fashion at all times.

2009–10 SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER 25–27

at Furman Invitational

OCTOBER 3–4 6–7 8–11 9–11 22–23 23–27

at All-American Pre-Qualifying (hosted by UCLA) at All-American Qualifying (Riviera Country Club) at Al-American Main Draw (Riviera Country Club) WILDCAT INVITE REGIONAL QUALIFYING REGIONAL MAIN DRAW

Greenville, S.C.

All Day

Los Angeles, Calif.

All Day

Los Angeles, Calif.

All Day

Los Angeles, Calif.

All Day

Evanston, Ill. Evanston, Ill. Evanston, Ill.

All Day All Day All Day

FEBRUARY Continued 26 28

MARCH

6 at Purdue ✱ 7 at Indiana ✱ 13 WISCONSIN ✱ 23 at North Carolina 24 at Duke

APRIL

3 4 9 10 at National Indoors New Haven, Conn. All Day 17 (hosted by Yale) at Desert Duals Palm Springs, Calif. All Day 18 24 25 29–30 at NCTC Palm Springs, Calif. All Day WILDCAT INVITE Evanston, Ill. All Day WILLIAM & MARY Evanston, Ill. 10 a.m. 1–2 INDOOR QUALIFYING (Evanston, Ill.) 14–16 OLD DOMINION Evanston, Ill. 10 a.m. 20–31 DENVER or PRINCETON Evanston, Ill. TBA

NOVEMBER 5–8 6–8

JANUARY 15–18 15–17 23

30 31

MAY

FEBRUARY 7 12–15 21

FLORIDA STATE at Indoor Main Draw at Notre Dame

Evanston, Ill. Madison, Wis. South Bend, Ind.

11 a.m. All Day 1 p.m.

at Illinois ✱ GEORGIA TECH

Champaign, Ill. Evanston, Ill.

West Lafayette, Ind. Noon Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. Evanston, Ill. 1 p.m. Chapel Hill, N.C. 3 p.m. Durham, N.C. 3 p.m.

MICHIGAN ✱ MICHIGAN STATE ✱ at Baylor at Texas IOWA ✱ MINNESOTA ✱ at Penn State ✱ at Ohio State ✱ at Big Ten Tournament

Evanston, Ill. Evanston, Ill. Waco, Texas Austin, Texas Evanston, Ill. Evanston, Ill. University Park, Pa. Columbus, Ohio Iowa City, Iowa

at Big Ten Tournament NCAA First & Second Rounds NCAA Championships

Iowa City, Iowa TBA Athens, Ga.

Home matches in BOLD CAPS ✱ Big Ten Conference match All times Central and subject to change

STACEY LEE

ELENA CHERNYAKOVA

MARIA MOSOLOVA

6 p.m. 3 p.m.

11 a.m. 11 a.m. 5 p.m. 2 p.m. 11 a.m. 11 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon All Day

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