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Women’s Tennis Climbs to No. 46 in Recent ITA Poll
The Nittany Lions are ranked for the sixth straight week
University
Park, Pa. – The Penn State women’s tennis team (9-3, 1-0) continued its
stay in this week’s ITA Poll, released today. The Nittany Lions came in
at No. 46. After winning two matches this weekend, Penn State improved
eight spots from last weeks poll, when the Nittany Lions were ranked
No. 54.
This marks the sixth week in a row Penn
State has stayed in the Top 75 ranking. Prior to this season, Penn
State had not broken into the poll since 2008, when they came in at No.
75 during the week of Feb. 22, 2008. The Nittany Lions have defeated
three ranked opponents this season: then No. 57 Ohio State, No. 40 VCU
and No. 65. Marshall. In previous weeks Penn State has held rankings of
No. 59, No. 61, No. 46, No. 53 and No. 54, respectively.
Including
the Nittany Lions, nine of the 12 schools in the highly competitive Big
Ten were also ranked. Penn State joins eight other Big Ten schools in
the poll, including No. 14 Northwestern, No. 20 Michigan, No. 25
Nebraska, No. 26 Minnesota, No. 27 Purdue, No. 50 Illinois, No. 57
Indiana, and No. 66 Ohio State. In total, 12 of Penn State's 22
opponents this season were ranked in this week's poll.
This
weekend Penn State enters the conference potion of its schedule and
will only face Big Ten opponents for the rest of the season. The
Nittany Lions host Indiana on Friday, March 23 at 4 p.m. and Purdue on
Sunday, March 25 at 11:30 a.m. After that, Penn State will hit the road
for the first time in over a month and a half, when it travels to Iowa
to take on the Hawkeyes on Friday, March 30 at 5 p.m.
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