Duran Selected to NCAA Individual Championships
05/03/2007 | Women's Tennis
May 3, 2007
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMON, Va. - Richmond women's tennis sophomore standout Pamela Duran earned a spot in the NCAA Individual Championship, released by the NCAA on May 2.
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, and the #46 player, Kellie Schmitt of Marshall.
The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 23-28 at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Georgia, following the conclusion of the team championship (May 18-22). The University of Georgia will serve as host.
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.
In other NCAA action, the Spider women's squad (9-7) will face the Tribe (20-2) on May 11 in the NCAA Regional first round in Williamsburg, Va.