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Overview: Highly touted rookie from nearby Anderson, SC who figures to play in the middle of the line-up in 2008 ...trained at Brookstone Meadows, which is owned by former Tiger tennis All-American Dr. Sophie Woorons-Johnston and former Clemson coach and three-time ACC Coach-of-the-Year Andy Johnston.
Fall 2007
Singles:
• Ranked #21 in the regional poll
• Was 7-5 in her first collegiate season
• Went 2-1 at her opening tournament, the MCC Collegiate Invitational Championships
• Reached the finals of the flight three bracket of the Furman Fall Classic in September where she fell to Vanderbilt's 73rd-ranked Taka Bertrand
• Advanced to the round of 16 at the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional
• Posted her first win over a ranked opponent at November's Duals In The Desert, defeating #81 Ashley Joelson of UCLA in three sets. Fell in her final two matches of the tournament
Doubles:
• Had a 4-6 doubles record for the fall season
• Was 2-4 with Estefania Balda. Pair went 2-1 at the MCC Collegiate Invitational in mid-September and fell in the flight one finals.
• Duo teamed again at November's Duals In The Desert, but fell in all three matches in the number two bracket
• Had a 2-1 record with Ina Hadziselimovic at the Furman Fall Classic. Duo finished second at flight three
• Was 0-1 with Carol Salge at the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional Championships in October.
Before Clemson
• Blue-Chip recruit from Anderson, SC
• Ranked seventh in the Southeast as a senior and #12 nationally
• Was also listed fourth in the TennisRPI
• Had a 55-13 record during her junior career
• Winner of numerous junior tournaments, including the Southern Bullfrog in April of 2007, the Bullfrog USTA in Feburary of 2007 and the Copper Bowl in January of 2007
• Coached by Andy Johnston, the head coach of the Clemson women's tennis program from 1983-97
• Born Oct. 18, 1988.
