MIAMI (April 14, 2017) – The No. 37 FIU women's tennis team (18-1) travels to Boca Raton, Florida, to face Conference USA foe Florida Atlantic (11-9) on Saturday, April 15.
First serve is set for 10 a.m.
The Panthers come into Saturday's match having won 16-straight matches, including the team's 12th shutout of the season with a 4-0 victory over UCF on Saturday, April 1.
The Owls come into Saturday's match having won seven of their last eight outings and are coming off a 5-2 loss against Miami on Friday, March 31.
Saturday will mark the 28
th meeting all-time between the two schools with FIU holding a 27-1 edge in series history. The Panthers have won 11-straight versus the Owls. The last meeting between the two schools resulted in 4-0 win for FIU on April 9, 2014 in Boca Raton.
Andrea Lazaro,
Ulyana Grib and
Maryna Veksler have each recorded 19 or more wins this season, with Veksler registering a team-best 14 victories in dual matches. Lazaro is currently ranked No. 44 in the latest Oracle/ITA Women's National Singles Rankings. The native of Barcelona, Spain, has registered an overall record of 19-2 (13-1 in dual matches) and is 17-3 in doubles, with an 11-1 recorded with her partner senior
Nina Nagode. Nagode is competing in her last regular season dual match as a Panther Nagode enters Saturday's action with an overall career record of 40-19.
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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 Riccardo Silva Stadium.
About FIU:
Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. 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 with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute. FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
