Record Book Quick Facts General Information Founded........................................................................1926 Enrollment .................................................................11,000 Nickname .............................................................Blackbirds Colors .......................................................... Black and Silver Conference ............................................................ Northeast Home Court ........................................ USTA Tennis Center Capacity .......................................................................2,500 Athletics Web Site ................................www.liuathletics.com President ............................................ Dr. David J. Steinberg Provost ..................................................Gale Stevens Haynes Director of Athletics ........................................... John Suarez Senior Associate AD/SWA ..........................Margaret Alaimo Head Athletic Trainer ...............................Danny O’Connor Athletic Department Phone ......................... (718) 488-1030 Athletic Department Fax .............................. (718) 488-1669
Table of Contents Quick Facts ........................................................................................ 1 Head Coach Asi Phillips ..................................................................... 2 Player Information ............................................................................. 2 Roster................................................................................................. 3 Northeast Conference Season Review ................................................. 3 Season-by-Season Results ................................................................... 4
Coaching Staff Head Coach ........................................................ Asi Phillips Alma Mater, Year ............................ Mount St. Mary’s, 2000 Overall Record ........................................57-40 (five seasons) Record at LIU ............................................................... same E-mail .....................................................asi.phillips@liu.edu Women’s Tennis Office Phone .................... (718) 488-3497
Team Information 2009-10 Overall Record .................................................14-4 2010 Conference Record/Finish ............................... 2-1/2nd 2010 NEC Tournament Finish ......................................... 1st Letterwinners Returning/Lost...........................................4/3 Newcomers .........................................................................2
Athletics Media Relations
Credits The 2010-11 Long Island University Women’s Tennis Record Book was designed, written and edited by Shawn Sweeney. Editorial assistance by Jeff Mead and Anna Pawlaczyk. Photography by Gene Boyars.
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Assistant Director of Media Relations .......... Shawn Sweeney ......................................................Women’s Tennis Contact Phone........................................................... (718) 488-1307 E-mail ..............................................shawn.sweeney@liu.edu Assistant AD/Media Relations Director..................Jeff Mead Phone........................................................... (718) 488-1420 E-mail .......................................................jeff.mead@liu.edu Media Relations Graduate Assistant ............ Anna Pawlaczyk Phone............................................(718) 488-1000 ext. 3026 E-mail ....................................... anna.pawlaczyk@my.liu.edu Media Relations Fax .................................... (718) 488-3302 Mailing Address ................................... One University Plaza ........................................... Wellness Center/Room 214-216 ........................................................... Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
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Record Book Meet The Blackbirds
Asi Phillips
Dara Lahens
Head Coach• •Sixth Season Mount St. Mary’s, 2000
5-4• •Senior Rosedale, N.Y. Benjamin Cardozo
Dara Lahens• •Career Records
The Phillips File 1
2005-06 Long Island .......................... 12-10 ............. 4-0 NEC 2006-07 Long Island1 .......................... 10-12 ............. 4-0 NEC 2007-08 Long Island ........................... 11-4 ................ 4-0 NEC 2008-09 Long Island1 2 ........................ 10-8 ................ 3-0 NEC 2009-10 Long Island1 2 ........................ 14-4 ................ 2-1 NEC Totals (five seasons) .................57-40 ......17-1 NEC 1 NEC Coach of the Year 2 NEC Champions
Singles Year 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Total Doubles Year 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 Total
Overall 6-4 7-11 5-8 18-23
Dual 6-2 7-7 4-4 17-13
Tournaments 0-2 0-4 1-4 1-10
NEC 2-0 3-0 0-0 5-0
Overall 9-12 9-10 18-8 36-30
Dual 6-7 6-8 12-5 24-20
Tournaments 3-5 3-2 6-3 12-10
NEC 2-1 1-1 2-1 5-3
Taysha Blessington
Linn Sjogren
5-5• •Sophomore Sydney, Australia Roseville College
5-5• •Sophomore Gavle, Sweden Borgarskolan
Taysha Blessington• •Career Records
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Singles Year 2009-10 Total Doubles Year 2009-10 Total
Linn Sjogren• •Career Records
Overall 14-13 14-13
Dual 12-6 12-6
Tournaments 2-7 2-7
NEC 3-0 3-0
Overall 13-6 13-6
Dual 11-4 11-4
Tournaments 2-2 2-2
NEC 1-2 1-2
Aleksandra Pavlovic 5-10• •Sophomore Uzice, Serbia Sports Gimnazium
Singles Year 2009-10 Total Doubles Year 2009-10 Total
Overall 10-11 10-11
Dual 8-7 8-7
Tournaments 2-4 2-4
NEC 1-2 1-2
Overall 5-3 5-3
Dual 3-1 3-1
Tournaments 2-2 2-2
NEC 0-0 0-0
Fatima Ouattara 5-4• •Freshman Baltimore, Md. Woodlawn
Aleksandra Pavlovic• •Career Records Singles Year 2009-10 Total Doubles Year 2009-10 Total 2
Overall 15-13 15-13
Dual 10-7 10-7
Tournaments 5-6 5-6
NEC 2-1 2-1
Overall 16-4 16-4
Dual 14-3 14-3
Tournaments 2-1 2-1
NEC 3-0 3-0
Zelie Pfeiffer 5-6• •Junior Thonnance-les-Joinville, France Univ. of Mobile
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Record Book Roster Name Taysha Blessington Dara Lahens Fatima Ouattara Aleksandra Pavlovic Zelie Pfeiffer Linn Sjorgen
Ht. 5-5 5-4 5-4 5-10 5-6 5-5
Yr. So. Sr. Fr. So. Jr. So.
Hometown/Previous School Sydney, Australia/Roseville College Rosedale, N.Y./Benjamin Cardozo Baltimore, Md./Woodlawn Uzice, Serbia/Sports Gimnazium Thonnance-les-Joinville, France/Univ. of Mobile Gavle, Sweden/Borgarskolan
Northeast Conference Season Review 2010 NEC Championship Results Opening Round: #8 Robert Morris 7, #9 Wagner 0 #7 Monmouth 5, #10 St. Francis (N.Y.) 0 Quarterfinals: #1 Fairleigh Dickinson 4, #8 Robert Morris 0 #2 Long Island 5, #7 Monmouth 0 #3 Quinnipiac 5, #6 Saint Francis (Pa.) 0 #4 Sacred Heart 4, #5 Mount St. Mary’s 1
Ninth Place: Seventh Place: Fifth Place: Semifinals:
#10 St. Francis (N.Y.) 4, #9 Wagner 0 #7 Monmouth 4, #6 Saint Francis (Pa.) 1 #5 Mount St. Mary’s 4, #8 Robert Morris 0 #1 Fairleigh Dickinson 4, #4 Sacred Heart 0 #2 Long Island 4, #3 Quinnipiac 1 Championship: #2 Long Island 4, #1 Fairleigh Dickinson 2
2010 All-NEC Teams Long Island Quinnipiac Quinnipiac Fairleigh Dickinson Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island
First Team Doubles #1 Mary Wilson Adrienne Markison #2 Julia Prantl Egzona Morina #3 Dara Lahens Stephanie Elie
Quinnipiac Quinnipiac Fairleigh Dickinson Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island Long Island
Second Team Singles #1 Julija Korshunova #2 Elmine Botes #3 Julia Prantl #4 Taysha Blessington #5 Renee Deane #6 Delaney Downing
Fairleigh Dickinson Fairleigh Dickinson Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island Mount St. Mary’s Sacred Heart
Second Team Doubles #1 Selma Babic Aleksandra Pavlovic #2 Taysha Blessington H’Ann Johnson #3 Delaney Downing Kate Donnelly
Long Island Long Island Long Island Long Island Sacred Heart Sacred Heart
Player of the Year Selma Babic
Long Island
Coach of the Year Asi Phillips
Long Island
Rookie of the Year Rachel Cantor
Quinnipiac
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First Team Singles #1 Selma Babic #2 Rachel Cantor #3 Adrienne Markison #4 Egzona Morina #5 Ksenia Chernyshova #6 H’Ann Johnson
For more information on the Northeast Conference, including schedules and statistics please go to www.northeastconference.org
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Record Book 2009-10 Team Results Overall: 14-4 Northeast Conference: 2-1 Date Sept. 20 Sept. 25 Oct. 10 Oct. 24 Feb. 5 Feb. 16 Feb. 27 March 14 March 16 March 17 March 24 March 27 March 27 April 1 April 2 April 5 April 9 April 10 April 16 April 17 April 18 May 14 * 1 2 3 4 5
Opponent Stony Brook Invitational Eastern Championships USTA Invitational ITA Regionals Albany Massachusetts at Columbia vs. Southern Utah1 vs. CSU-Bakersfield1 vs. Oral Roberts1 Sacred Heart* at Saint Peter’s vs. St. John’s2 at Fordham at Monmouth* at Fairleigh Dickinson* Rhode Island at Army vs. Monmouth4 vs. Quinnipiac4 vs. Fairleigh Dickinson4 vs. No. 10 Duke5
Result Completed Completed Completed Completed W 4-3 L 5-1 L 4-3 W 6-1 W 7-0 W 5-2 W 5-2 W 4-0 W 4-3 W 7-0 W 7-0 L 4-3 W 4-3 W 4-3 W 5-0 W 4-1 W 4-2 L 4-0
2010 Northeast Conference Champions Selma Babic
Northeast Conferernce match Las Vegas, Nev. Jersey City, N.J. West Point, N.Y. Northeast Conference Tournament (West Windsor, N.J.) NCAA Tournament (Charlottesville, Va.)
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2009-10 Singles/Doubles Results Singles 1 Selma Babic 14-1 Taysha Blessington --Stephanie Elie --H’Ann Johnson --Dara Lahens --Aleksandra Pavlovic 1-0 Linn Sjogren --Total 15-1
2 --1-0 ------2-0 6-7 9-7
3 4 5 6 Dual Tourn. NEC Overall --- ----- --- 14-1 5-1 3-0 19-2 --- 11-6 --- --- 12-6 2-7 3-0 14-13 1-0 --- 4-5 2-2 7-7 0-4 2-1 7-11 --- --- 1-2 6-0 7-2 --2-1 7-2 --- --- 1-3 3-1 4-4 1-4 --5-8 7-7 ----- --- 10-7 5-6 2-1 15-13 2-0 ----- --8-7 2-4 1-2 10-11 10-7 11-6 6-10 11-3 62-34 15-26 13-5 77-60
Stephanie Elie
Doubles 1 2 3 Blessington/Sjogren --- 3-1 --Elie/Lahens --- --- 12-5 Pavlovic/mixed --- --- --Babic/Pavlovic 14-3 --- --Blessington/Johnson --- 8-3 --Babic/Johnson 1-0 --- --Totals 15-3 11-4 12-5
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Dual Tourn. NEC Overall 3-1 2-2 --5-3 12-5 6-3 2-1 18-8 --2-1 --2-1 14-3 --3-0 14-3 8-3 --1-2 8-3 1-0 ----1-0 38-12 10-6 6-3 48-18
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Record Book 2008-09 Team Results
2009 Northeast Conference Champions
Overall: 10-8 Northeast Conference: 3-0 Date Sept. 19 Sept. 26 Oct. 11 Oct. 25 Jan. 31 Feb. 5 Feb. 21 March 7 March 16 March 17 March 18 March 19 March 21 March 26 March 27 March 30 April 5 April 11 April 17 April 18 April 19 May 8 * 1 2 3
Opponent Stony Brook Invitational Eastern Championships USTA Women’s College Invitational Wilson/ITA East Region Championships at Albany at Massachusetts at Columbia at Saint Peter’s vs. Cleveland State1 vs. North Dakota1 vs. Rhode Island1 at Rollins vs. Coastal Carolina1 at Sacred Heart* Bryant Monmouth* Fairleigh Dickinson* at Army vs. Saint Francis (Pa.)2 vs. Fairleigh Dickinson2 vs. Quinnipiac2 at No. 9 California3
Result Completed Completed Completed Completed L 6-1 L 6-1 L 7-0 W 7-0 L 5-2 W 6-1 L 5-2 L 5-2 L 5-2 W 4-3 W 5-2 W 7-0 W 6-1 W 4-3 W 5-0 W 4-0 W 4-1 L 4-0
Northeast Conferernce match Orlando, Fla. Northeast Conference Tournament (West Windsor, N.J.) NCAA Tournament (Berkeley, Calif.)
2008-09 Singles/Doubles Results
Selma Babic Liliana Cortes Stephanie Elie Ashley Harvey Amy Hosotsuji H’Ann Johnson Dara Lahens Total
1 2 3 16-1 --- ----- --- 0-1 --- 0-1 1-1 --- 11-3 0-1 --- --- ----- 1-0 3-8 --- --- 1-0 16-1 12-4 5-12
4 ----4-2 --0-1 1-2 2-2 7-8
5 6 Dual Tourn. NEC Overall --- --- 16-1 5-3 3-0 21-4 --- --0-1 0-1 --0-2 2-2 --7-6 2-4 3-0 9-10 --- --- 11-4 4-3 3-0 15-7 1-2 7-6 8-9 1-3 1-1 9-12 --- --- 5-10 2-2 1-2 7-12 4-4 0-1 7-7 0-4 3-0 7-11 7-8 8-10 55-43 14-20 15-3 69-63
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Singles
Amy Hosotsuji
Ashley Harvey
Doubles 1 2 Cortes/Johnson --- --Babic/Lahens 1-2 --Elie/Hosotsuji --- 1-6 Elie/Lahens --- 1-0 Harvey/Hosotsuji 0-1 2-4 Elie/Johnson --- 0-1 Babic/Johnson 12-1 --Harvey/Lahens --- 1-0 Elie/Harvey --- 0-1 Hosotsuji/Lahens --- --Totals 13-4 5-12
3 ----1-0 2-1 0-1 0-2 --1-4 --0-1 5-10
Dual Tourn. NEC Overall --3-7 --3-7 1-2 3-1 --4-3 2-6 1-2 1-1 3-8 3-1 0-1 1-0 3-2 2-6 0-2 0-1 2-8 0-3 ----0-3 12-1 --2-0 12-1 2-4 --0-1 2-4 0-1 ----0-1 0-1 ----0-1 23-26 7-13 5-3 30-39
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Record Book 2007-08 Team Results
Liliana Cortes
Overall: 10-8 Northeast Conference: 3-0 Date Sept. 16 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 March 2 March 9 March 15 March 16 March 17 March 18 March 19 March 29 April 5 April 6 April 9 April 11 April 18 April 19 April 20 * 1 2
Opponent Eastern Championships Stony Brook Invitational USTA Invitational at Army at Saint Peter’s vs. Adelphi vs. Siena vs. Dayton vs. Hamilton vs. Wagner* at Massachusetts Sacred Heart* at St. John’s at Monmouth* at Fairleigh Dickinson* vs. Wagner1 vs. Fairleigh Dickinson1 vs. Quinnipiac1
Result Completed Completed Completed L 2-5 W 6-1 W 7-0 W 7-0 W 4-3 W 6-1 W 7-0 L 1-6 W 5-2 L 2-4 W 7-0 W 6-1 W 4-0 W 4-3 L 2-4
Northeast Conferernce match Orlando, Fla. Northeast Conference Tournament (West Windsor, N.J.)
2007-08 Singles/Doubles Results Singles
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Selma Babic Liliana Cortes Stephanie Elie Ashley Harvey Amy Hosotsuji H’Ann Johnson Dara Lahens Total
1 2 3 10-3 --- ----- --- ----- --- 1-4 0-1 12-2 ----- --- ----- 0-1 7-3 --- --- --10-4 12-3 8-7
4 5 6 Dual Tourn. NEC Overall ----- --- 10-3 7-2 4-0 17-5 --- 5-1 --5-1 0-2 2-0 5-3 5-4 --- --5-8 0-4 0-4 6-12 ----- --- 12-3 4-4 4-0 16-7 --- 2-1 7-3 9-4 0-3 3-1 9-7 3-0 --- --- 10-4 3-2 3-0 13-6 1-0 4-2 1-0 6-2 0-2 2-0 6-4 9-4 11-4 10-3 46-52 14-19 12-16 60-71
H’Ann Johnson
Doubles 1 Cortes/Hosotsuji --Elie/Lahens --Babic/Cortes 1-0 Johnson/Lahens --Harvey/Hosotsuji --Harvey/Johnson --Hosotsuji/Lahens --Babic/Harvey 0-1 Elie/Hosotsuji --Babic/Johnson 9-1 Cortes/Lahens --Babic/Johnson 0-2 Totals 10-4
2 ------0-1 6-1 ----------2-5 --8-7
3 --4-1 ----6-0 ------0-1 ------10-2
Dual Tourn. NEC Overall --1-1 --1-1 4-1 3-2 1-0 7-3 1-0 5-1 1-0 6-1 0-1 0-2 --0-3 12-1 0-2 4-0 12-3 --2-1 --2-1 --0-1 --0-1 0-1 ----0-1 0-1 ----0-1 9-1 --3-0 9-1 2-5 --1-1 2-5 0-2 ----0-2 28-13 11-10 10-1 39-23 Dara Lahens
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