MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama women's tennis team will look to get their spring campaign off to a good start with two matches against Grambling on Saturday and one vs. McNeese State on Sunday.

MATCH INFORMATION
Date: Jan. 25 and 26, 2019
Host: University of South Alabama
Place: Bruce David Lubel Memorial Tennis Courts
Match Times: Jan. 25: 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. vs Grambling; Jan. 26: Noon vs. McNeese State

ON THE COURT FOR THE JAGUARS
-Yu Fujioka (So., Funabashi, Japan)
-Alexandria Stiteler (Sr., Bradenton, Fla.)
-Milka Pasanen (So., Pieksämäki, Finland)
-Patricia Martins (Sr., Lisbon, Portugal)
-Nikola Kohoutova (So., Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic)
-Leslie Soto (Jr., Santiago, Chile)
-Diana Monsalve (Jr., Bogota, Colombia)
-Yurie Takanishi (Fr., Haracho, Japan)

NOTES
-Takanishi and Monsalve will be making their South Alabama debuts; the pair joined the program at the start of the spring semester
-Monsalve is a transfer from Jacksonville State, where she compiled a 17-10 dual record her first two seasons
-Fujioka has won the first 21 dual matches in her career; the 21-0 mark overall and 14-0 at No. 3 last year were new school records
-Stiteler holds the USA mark for career win percentage at No. 1 (.803) and is second in career top-flight wins (49)
-Stiteler went 17-3 last spring and was named First Team all-Sun Belt for the third consecutive season
-Pasanen posted a team-best seven wins this fall

QUOTES FROM COACH KEYSER
On this weekend's matches: "I'm excited to get this year's campaign started. There's nothing like keeping official score to get used to the ups and downs of match play. I'm looking forward to plenty of tennis this weekend and see where we are at and what needs to improve."

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