BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Women's Tennis will host Middle Tennessee on Thursday, April 9, at the Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park for a Senior Day match.
Senior Day ceremonies will begin at 11:45 a.m. CT. Seniors Elizabeth Sobieski and Carolina Chiatti will be recognized prior to the start of the match.
MATCH INFO
- WKU (10-13 overall, 1-2 CUSA) vs. Middle Tennessee (6-13 overall, 1-5 CUSA)
- Thursday, April 9 | 1 p.m. CT
- Warren County Tennis Facility at Michael O. Buchanon Park | Bowling Green, Ky.
- Senior Day (Ceremony begins at 11:45 a.m. CT)
- Free Admission
- Social: @WKUTennis | @WKUSports
ABOUT THE LADY TOPPERS
- WKU enters Thursday's match against Middle Tennessee with a 10-13 overall record, a 1-2 record against Conference USA opponents and an 8-5 record in home matches this season.
- WKU has won at least 10 matches in each of the last five seasons. It is the second time the program has accomplished the feat, also doing so between the 2009-13 seasons. The Lady Toppers have won 72 matches over the last five seasons, which is the highest win total over a five-year period in program history.
- True freshman Virginia Madueño was named the CUSA Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week on Wednesday. It was WKU's second CUSA weekly award of the season – Madueño and Barbara Olvera were named the CUSA Women's Tennis Doubles Team of the Week on Feb. 4 – and the 12th WKU has received under Head Coach Greg Davis.
- The Lady Toppers have won the doubles point in seven matches this season and have a 7-0 record when winning the doubles point.
- Emily Schut, Madueño and Olvera each have nine doubles wins this season.
- Schut has 23 doubles wins during her WKU career, which ranks 13th in program history.
- Madueño has led WKU in singles this season with her 15-4 record. She is 5-1 from the No. 3 position, 6-0 from the No. 4 position and 4-1 from the No. 5 position. The 15 singles wins are tied for sixth-most in a single season in program history. Only Rachel Hermanova has more singles wins in a season as a true freshman in program history. Hermanova had 19 singles wins during the 2022 season.
- Olvera has claimed 10 singles wins for WKU this season, while Isabelle Einess, Ariadna Fernandez and Schut each have nine.
- Schut has 24 singles wins during her WKU career, which is tied for 13th-most in program history.
- Davis has 347 career wins as a head coach. He entered the season tied for 23rd nationally in wins among active NCAA Division I Women's Tennis head coaches with at least five years as a Division I head coach, counting all victories as a coach at a four-year institution. Davis entered the season with a career winning percentage of .637, which ranked 36th among that group of coaches.
- Davis has collected 88 wins at WKU, which ranks second in program history. He trails only Jeff True on the Lady Topper Tennis career coaching wins list. True claimed 132 wins between 2001-14.
- The full 2026 WKU Women's Tennis schedule can be found HERE.
QUOTABLE
- "We've got two seniors who have done a tremendous job, especially on the leadership side, in Carolina Chiatti and Elizabeth Sobieski. They've done a good job for us this year." – WKU Women's Tennis Head Coach Greg Davis, on Senior Day.
SERIES INFORMATION
- Thursday's match will be the 45th between WKU and Middle Tennessee. The Blue Raiders lead the series 30-14 after defeating the Lady Toppers last season in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. WKU won the last meeting between the two in Bowling Green – a 4-1 result during the 2024 season.
ABOUT THE BLUE RAIDERS
- Middle Tennessee enters Thursday's match with a 6-13 overall record and a 1-5 record against CUSA opponents.
- The Blue Raiders have wins this season against Florida A&M, Bellarmine, Tennessee State, Chicago State, New Mexico State and Georgia State.
- Middle Tennessee is led by Tayo Bailey-Duvall, who has served as the program's Head Coach since 2018.
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