georgia at the NCAA Tournament NCAA Champions: 1994, 2000
Finalists: 1987
Semifinalists:
1989-91-95-98, 2001-02-09
23 NCAA Appearances 57-21 record
Georgia’s NCAA Individual Champions
1984 Singles: Lisa Spain 1994 Singles: Angela Lettiere
Georgia’s NCAA Finalists
1992: Shannan McCarthy (singles) 1997: Anderson/Catlin (doubles) 1999: Catlin/Castellano (doubles) 2000: Catlin/Grey (doubles)
Georgia’s Head-to-Head Record in the NCAAs Alabama .......................................... 1-0 Arkansas .......................................... 0-1 Auburn............................................. 1-0 Baylor .............................................. 1-0 Boise State ....................................... 1-0 California ......................................... 4-2 Central Florida ................................. 1-0 Clemson ........................................... 0-1 Coastal Carolina ............................... 1-0 Duke ................................................ 2-2 Florida ............................................. 2-2 Fresno State ..................................... 1-0 Furman............................................. 1-0 Georgia Tech.................................... 1-0 Indiana ............................................ 4-0 Kansas ............................................. 1-0 Kentucky .......................................... 1-0 Maryland-Baltimore County ............... 1-0 Miami .............................................. 2-0 Mississippi State................................ 2-0 Ohio State........................................ 1-0 Oklahoma State................................ 1-0 Pepperdine ....................................... 1-0 Quinnipiac ....................................... 1-0 Samford ........................................... 1-0 South Alabama................................. 2-0 South Carolina.................................. 5-0 South Carolina State ......................... 2-0 Southern California ........................... 3-0 SMU ................................................ 1-0 Stanford ........................................... 2-9 Tennessee ......................................... 2-0 Texas ............................................... 1-0 Trinity ............................................... 1-0 UCLA ............................................... 1-0 Vanderbilt ........................................ 0-3 William & Mary ................................ 1-1 Winthrop .......................................... 1-0 Yale ................................................. 1-0
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he Bulldogs have made 23 straight appearances in the NCAA Tournament and own a 57-21 mark, including 10 Nation’s Longest Active trips to the Final Four (seven semifinals, three times to the NCAA Tournament streak finals and won two national titles). California .............................28 The University of Georgia women’s tennis program Stanford ...............................28 reached the highest level of success in 1994 and again in UCLA ...................................28 2000, joining the elite class of national champions. The Texas ...................................27 Bulldogs captured the national championship on their home gEoRgIA................................ 23 courts at Henry Feild Stadium in 1994 and then won the Florida .................................23 2000 team title in Malibu, Calif. Both times they defeated long-time nemesis Stanford for the title. In 1994, it was only fitting considering the Cardinal had ousted Georgia in six of its first seven NCAA appearances. In 2000, Georgia dethroned the defending national champion Cardinal and halted its 48-match winning streak with a 5-4 victory. Prior to the 1994 national title, Georgia’s best showing came in its debut in 1987. That year, the Bulldogs reached the finals, falling to Stanford, 5-1. Georgia has served as an NCAA first/second round site nine times since 1999, owning a perfect record of 18-0. Georgia did not play host to the early rounds in 2003 and 2006. Individually, the Bulldogs boast two national champions. Lisa Spain, Georgia’s first All-American, captured the NCAA singles title in 1984. Angela Lettiere captured the 1994 national singles title a decade later. In 1992, Shannan McCarthy was the runner-up to Florida’s Lisa Raymond. In 1994, the All-America tandem of Lettiere and Michelle Anderson was the nation’s topranked doubles team and top seed at the 1994 NCAAs, but a foot injury sidelined Anderson. Consequently, the duo was forced to withdraw from the tournament, but they had accumulated enough big wins to remain No. 1 in the final rankings. Similarly, in 1998, Georgia’s top-ranked and FINAl FouR FINAlIsTs top-seeded doubles tandem of Vanessa Castellano and Marissa Catlin were forced to withdraw when Catlin contracted mononucleosis a week before the championships. That duo finished the season ranked third.In 1999, the All-American duo of Catlin and Castellano posted one of the greatest seasons in history, winning two Grand Slam titles (Clay and Indoor) and reaching the finals in the other two (All-American and NCAAs). 2009 2000 1987 They were ranked No. 1 the entire regular season and at season’s end. In 2000, the tandem of Catlin 2001 2002 1994 and Lori Grey clinched the NCAA team title and then 1995 1998 a few days later advanced to the doubles final. They 1989 1991 also finished the season ranked No. 1.
NATIoNAl CHAMPIoNs
Grey and Agata Cioroch became the fifth Georgia duo to end the season ranked first in the nation in 2003. They reached the 2003 NCAA quarterfinals in doubles while Cioroch made it to the semifinals of the singles. In 2005, Shadisha Robinson and Caroline Basu gave the Bulldogs their sixth duo to end the season at No. 1 in the ITA rankings as the pair went a school record 28-4. Georgia played host to the NCAA Championships in 1994, 2004, 2005, and 2007. This season, and again in 2012, the NCAA Championships return to Athens and the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
Bulldogs in the NCAA singles and doubles Field
1982: none 1983: Lisa Spain (S&D), Nancy Cohen (D) 1984: Lisa Spain (S&D), Alice Reen (D) 1986: Jane Cohodes (S&D), Alice Reen (D) 1987: Laurie Friedland (S) 1988: Liz Alexander (S), Stacey Schefflin (S&D), Lisa Apanay (D) 1989: Shannan McCarthy (S&D), Stacey Schefflin (S&D), Liz Alexander (S), Caryn Moss (S), Jill Waldman (S) 1990: Shannan McCarthy (S&D), Caryn Moss (S&D), Stacey Schefflin (S&D), Jill Waldman (S&D) 1991: Angela Lettiere (S&D), Shannan McCarthy (S&D), Tonya Bogdonas (S), Laura Kimel (S) 1992: Shannan McCarthy (S&D), Shawn McCarthy (S), Stacy Sheppard (D) 1993: Anne Chauzu (S&D), Angela Lettiere (D), Stacy Sheppard (S) 1994: Stacy Sheppard (S&D), Angela Lettiere (S), Tina Samara (D) 1995: Michelle Anderson (S&D), Anne Chauzu (S&D), Tina Samara (S&D), Stacy Sheppard (S&D)
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1996: Michelle Anderson (S&D), Anne Chauzu (S&D) 1997: Michelle Anderson (S&D), Marissa Catlin (S&D) 1998: Vanessa Castellano (S), Aarthi Venkatesan (S) 1999: Vanessa Castellano (S&D), Marissa Catlin (S&D), Esther Knox (S), Aarthi Venkatesan (S) 2000: Marissa Catlin (S&D), Lori Grey (S&D), Esther Knox (S&D), Aarthi Venkatesan (S&D) 2001: Aarthi Venkatesan (S&D), Lori Grey (D), Anne Nguyen (S), Mariel Verban (S) 2002: Agata Cioroch (S&D), Lori Grey (D) 2003: Agata Cioroch (S&D), Lori Grey (S&D), Anne Nguyen (S) 2004: Agata Cioroch (S&D), Shadisha Robinson (S&D) 2005: Shadisha Robinson (S&D), Caroline Basu (D), Natalie Frazier (S) 2006: Natalie Frazier (S) 2007: Natalie Frazier (S), Monika Dancevic (S), Darya Ivanov (D), Yvette Hyndman (D) 2008: Kelley Hyndman (S), Yvette Hyndman (S) 2009: Chelsey Gullickson (S&D), Nadja Gilchrist (S&D), Yvette Hyndman (S)