MIAMI (March 23, 2017) – The No. 30 FIU women's tennis team (15-1) travels to Tampa, Florida, to take on the USF Bulls (8-7) on Friday, March 24.
First serve is set for noon.
FIU has won 13-straight and is coming off a 7-0 win over Towson on Monday, March 20. The shutout was the ninth of the season for FIU and the team's fifth-straight.
The Bulls come into Friday's match with an 8-7 record and are coming off a 4-0 win over UAB on Saturday, March 18. The last meeting between FIU and USF resulted in a 4-0 win for the Panthers earlier this season (Jan. 28) during the opening round of the ITA Kick-Off Weekend in Gainesville, Florida.
FIU is led by
Maryna Veksler, who comes into this weekend's action with a team-best 19-4 mark. The native of Kiev, Ukraine, is 7-1 in the last 10 FIU outings and has won five-straight. Joining Veksler are
Andrea Lazaro (17-4),
Mina Markovic (15-4) and
Ulyana Grib (18-4), who have totaled 15 wins-or-more each. Lazaro is currently ranked No. 41 in the latest Oracle/ITA Women's National Singles Rankings. The native of Barcelona, Spain, has registered an overall career mark of 41-13 and a 28-2 career record in dual matches. Grib has won five-straight, including three wins last week. The first-year Panther is 9-1 in the team's last 10 outings and owns a 10-2 mark at the No. 5 position.
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and Ocean Bank Field at FIU Stadium.
About FIU:
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/.
