TEMPE, Ariz. – The Southwestern University women's tennis team was ranked 22 in the nation in the 2019 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division III rankings announced Wednesday, June 5.
Southwestern's Mary Cardone was ranked 22nd nationally for women's singles as well as 5th in the west region. Cecile Wilde and Esther Bowers were also ranked 12th in the west region for women's doubles.
The national champion Emory University men's tennis team finished on top in the final ITA Division III rankings. The men's team was joined by Jonathan Jemison and Ysabel Gonzalez Rico, both from Emory, as the No. 1 ranked singles players. Wesleyan University jumped from their previous ranking of No. 4 to claim the No. 1 ranking for the women's teams. The Bowdoin College duo of Yangeng Jiang and Grant Urken and the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps duo of Caroline Cox and Catherine Allen claimed the men's and women's No. 1 doubles ranking respectively.
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Women's Team Rankings | Women's Singles Rankings | Women's Doubles Rankings
Oracle/ITA Division III Women's Rankings
National Team
Administered by the ITA
4-Jun-19
Rank Team Prev. Rank
1 Wesleyan University 4
2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 2
3 Emory University 1
4 Middlebury College 3
5 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 5
6 Amherst College 6
7 Carnegie Mellon University 11
8 Univ. of Chicago 12
9 MIT 19
10 Brandeis University 8
11 Bowdoin College 7
12 Tufts University 9
13 Williams College 10
14 Kenyon College 13
15 Johns Hopkins University 14
16 University Of Mary Washington 15
17 Skidmore College 16
18 Trinity University (Texas) 17 (SCAC)
19 New York University 21
20 Washington University in St. Louis 18
21 California Institute of Technology 20
22 Southwestern University (TX) 22 (SCAC)
23 Washington & Lee University 23
24 Christopher Newport University 24
25 Swarthmore College 25
26 Denison University 26
27 Carleton College 27
28 Bates College 28
29 Hope College 33
30 Univ. of the South 30
31 The University Of Texas At Dallas NR
32 Linfield College 31
33 Univ. of Redlands 29
34 Case Western Reserve University 34
35 Bethel UMN 38
36 Gustavus Adolphus College 32
37 DePauw University 35
38 Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater 36
39 College of New Jersey 37
40 Hamilton College 39