MIAMI (Feb. 18, 2016) – The FIU women's tennis team (3-1) will head to Atlanta, Ga., for a pair of matches this weekend.
FIU will take on Georgia State (4-0) on Friday, Feb. 19. First serve is set for 1 p.m. ET. The Panthers will follow that up with a 9 a.m. match versus George Washington (3-1) on Saturday, Feb. 20.
Friday's match with GSU will mark the seventh meeting all-time between the two schools with the series tied at 3-all. The last meeting between FIU and Georgia State resulted in a 5-3 win for GSU on April 18, 1998 during the TAAC Championships in Macon, Ga.
Saturday' contest with the Colonials will mark just the second meeting all-time between the Panthers and GW. FIU won the first meeting with George Washington back in 2006, defeating the Colonials, 7-0, in Miami (March 17).
FIU comes into this weekend's action having won all three of its matches away from the FIU Tennis Courts. Freshman
Maryna Veksler leads all Panthers with an 18-4 record in singles action this season (3-0 dual), having won five straight. Junior
Nina Nagode is 8-2 in her last 10 matches and holds a 14-7 mark in singles play. Sophomore
Nerma Caluk enters Friday's action with a 15-4 singles record, while redshirt freshman
Andrea Lazaro has won nine of her last 10 matches to improve to 11-8 on the year.
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Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offer more than 180 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes $8.9 billion each year to the local economy. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded over 200,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has over 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
