The NYIT women's tennis team, ranked No. 15 nationally, achieved another program first Saturday afternoon as the Bears advance to the NCAA Div. II round of 16 with a 5-0 victory over Chestnut Hill.
The Queens College women's tennis team, ranked 36th in the country, will be heading to Surprise, Arizona after beating their local rival, Concordia with a score of 5-2, in the NCAA Regional final on Sunday
The University of the District of Columbia men’s and women’s tennis teams took the time to work on a facility improvement project at Walker Jones Education Campus on Saturday, February 2nd through the Hands on DC organization.
With the championship tied at four matches apiece, Madalina Florea of NYIT took home a three set victory to clinch the program's first ever East Coast Conference Women's Tennis Championship.
In a rematch of last year's East Coast Conference finals, No. 2 seeded NYIT women's tennis defeated No. 3 seed District of Columbia 5-0 Friday afternoon in the ECC semifinals.
Graduate student Nelly Ciolkowski (, France) from New York Institute of Technology has been named the ECC Women’s Tennis Player of Year, while Andrea Samson (Key Biscayne, Fla.) from Queens College took home the Rookie of the Year honor as selected by the conference’s coaches.
It came down to the "Battle of the Bears" as graduate student Nelly Ciolkowski (Neuilly-Plaisance, France) defeated reigning East Region singles champion sophomore Sara Burinato (Barcelona, Spain), 6-0, 6-4, to win the 2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Region Draw A Singles Championship.
The Queens College women’s tennis team has been selected by the conference’s coaches in the 2012 preseason poll to capture their third East Coast Conference championship in four seasons.