MIAMI (March 16, 2016) – The No. 57-ranked FIU women's tennis team (11-2) will look to get back to its winning ways as the Panthers host the Yale Bulldogs (5-6) on Thursday, March 17, from the FIU Tennis Courts. First serve is set for 12 p.m.
Admission to Thursday's match is free to the public.
The Panthers are coming off a 4-3 loss to No. 41 Columbia on Tuesday; the team's first loss in over a month.
Thursday's match will be the seventh meeting all-time between the two teams with the series tied at 3-3. The last meeting between the Panthers and Bulldogs resulted in a 6-1 win for Yale on Feb. 1, 2013, in New Haven, Conn.
All six Panthers come into Thursday's match with 10-or-more singles wins. Leading the way for FIU is freshman
Maryna Veksler, who has posted a team-best 24-6 mark. Also posting 20+ wins is sophomore
Nerma Caluk, who has registered 23 on the year. Redshirt freshman Andrea comes into the Yale match having won 13-straight and is a perfect 12-0 in dual matches. Lazaro is 19-8 in singles action this season. Senior
Kaitlin Brozovich has the second-longest winning streak on the team having won five straight entering Thursday. Brozovich is 14-8 this season.
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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/.
