Duran To Compete In NCAA Individual Championships Tomorrow
05/22/2007 | Women's Tennis
May 22, 2007
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Richmond women's tennis sophomore standout Pamela Duran will compete against Vanderbilt's Amanda Fish in the NCAA Individual Championships Wednesday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens Georgia.
"Pamela has been training hard," said head coach Mark Wesselink. "She's healthy, she feels good and I think it's going to be a good, close match."
Duran (Guayaquil, Ecuador), the 2007 A-10 Most Outstanding Performer and 2006 Most Outstanding Rookie, earned the A-10's automatic bid to the NCAA Individual Championship after posting an 11-6 mark at first singles this spring and a 13-3 record in doubles, including a 12-match win streak at the no. 2 spot.
A two-time A-10 Player of the Week and All-Conference selection currently ranked 104th in the nation, she has climbed as high as #68 in the national rankings after impressive wins over the #5 player, Megan Moulton-Levy of W&M, as well as the #46 player, Kellie Schmitt of Marshall.
Fish, a senior from Scituate, Mass., is currently ranked 19th in the nation and is also a member of one of the Top 10 doubles teams in the nation.
Automatic qualification into the Division I singles championships was awarded to any conference with one or more eligible singles players ranked in the ITA Top 125 for eligible/entered singles players. For conferences with more than one singles player within the ITA Top 125 eligible/entered singles players, the subcommittee applied the NCAA selection criteria to determine which student-athlete was the automatic qualifier from those conferences.
The Spider women's squad concluded its season with a 9-8 mark, winning nine of its final 11 matches, including a loss to the Tribe (21-2) on May 11 in the NCAA Regional first round in Williamsburg, Va., its fourth-straight NCAA appearance and fifth in the past six years.