The Chicago State's women's tennis team made their fall season debut Friday at the Spartan Invitational in East Lansing, Michigan at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility. Freshman
Ethel Li earned her first collegiate victory with a straight set 6-0, 6-0 win over Aimee Brown of Oakland while senior
Katarina Dukic outlasted Jessica Stanmore from Youngstown State, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-5 for the two singles victories for the Cougars. CSU doubles teams went 0-3 with a pair of 6-4 losses.
"The girls were not in sync for doubles," head coach
Jack Barton said. "But, the great thing about it is that we will get an opportunity to look at the video and we can correct those small errors. In singles we had good efforts. Ethel (li) picked up her first collegiate win and Katarina (Dukic) grinded out a victory. They played with a lot of effort and the passion."
Listed below are Chicago State's results Friday at the Spartan Invitational. The event goes through Sunday with doubles and singles competitions each day.
2022 Spartan Invitational
Hosted by Michigan State University
September 30-October 2
Chicago State Results
Friday's Results
Doubles
Singles
Poppe, Bowling Green defeated
Amina Taibi, Chicago State, 6-1, 6-0
Ethel Li, Chicago State defeated Brown, Oakland, 6-0, 6-0
Katarina Dukic, Chicago State defeated Stanmore, YSU, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-5
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach
Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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