Women's Tennis: Ohio Northern (2-0 Overall) at Kalamazoo (Mich.) (1-2 Overall); at Albion (Mich.) (1-2 Overall); v Adrian (Mich.) (0-3 Overall)
Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, 7 pm - Markin Center, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, 2 & 6 pm - Ungrodt Tennis Center, Albion, Mich.
Saturday's Match: The Ohio Northern women's tennis team will open the spring portion of its 2017-18 schedule with a match at Kalamazoo (Mich.) on Friday night ... Northern will then travel to Albion, Mich., for matches with Albion (Mich.) and Adrian (Mich.) on Saturday afternoon and evening ... The Polar Bears went 2-0 in the fall with 9-0 victories over Defiance and Concordia (Mich.) ... ONU also competed in the Kenyon Invitational and the ITA Regionals at Oberlin ... Thus far this season, ONU is led in singles play by sophomore Mackenzie Wills and freshman Sabine Worthoff with 6-2 records ... Sophomore Kaleigh Cummins is 5-3 ... In doubles play, Junior Ashley Ochsenhirt leads the team with a 4-3 record ... Overall, Wills and Latala are a team-best 9-6 each ... Senior Lynn Kelly is 89-28 in her career and needs just 11 wins to become a member of ONU's 100-Win Club ... She is 41-14 in singles and 48-14 in doubles.
Returning Statistical Leaders (2016-17 Stats):
Singles Wins | Doubles Wins | Overall Wins | ||||||||||
1. | Wills | 6-2 | 1. | Ochsenhirt | 4-3 | 1. | Wills | 9-6 | ||||
Worthoff | 6-2 | 2. | Cummins | 3-2 | Worthoff | 9-6 | ||||||
3. | Cummins | 5-3 | Latala | 3-4 | 3. | Cummins | 8-5 | |||||
Wills | 3-4 | |||||||||||
Worthoff | 3-4 |
All-Time Series: Kalamazoo leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 4-1 margin ... Albion leads the series with ONU 6-2 and ONU leads the series with Adrian 8-0.
Head Coach Scott Wills: Wills is in his 16th season as head coach of the Polar Bears ... He is the winningest coach in ONU women's tennis history with a 331-85 record, a winning percentage of .796 ... Wills has also been named OAC Coach of the Year five times, most recently in 2015.