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The College
of New Jersey’s women’s tennis team clinched its 25th
consecutive New Jersey Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis
championship with a pair of 9-0 victories over both William Paterson
and Ramapo on October 6. With the wins, the Lions finished the 2007
fall season with a perfect 5-0 mark. TCNJ remains unbeaten all-time in NJAC
women’s tennis play with 121 straight conference victories dating
back to the fall of 1982.
TCNJ captured the 2007 title by posting five conference victories in
a span of 24 days. The Lions opened their season with a 9-0 victory
at home over Rutgers-Newark on September 12. They next topped
conference rival Richard Stockton 9-0 on September 19, before
defeating Kean by a score of 9-0 on September 24. The Lions clinched
the crown with a 9-0 blanking of William Paterson on the morning of October
6, and wrapped up
another perfect NJAC season with a 9-0 win over Ramapo just four hours later.
TCNJ did not drop an individual singles match and finished the fall
season with a 30-0 mark. They also posted a perfect 15-0 record in NJAC doubles play.
Since women’s tennis was introduced as a conference sport in the
fall of 1982, the Lions have never lost a league match – a streak of
121 straight victories over the course of 25 seasons. The streak has
spanned 26 years and three different head coaches at the helm of the TCNJ program. The streak started in 1982 with Brenda Campbell as the
Lions’ head coach, a role she handled until her retirement as
women’s tennis coach in the summer of 1995. Under
Campbell, the Lions
compiled a 68-0 record in NJAC play. From 1995 through the 2000
season, Tricia Udicious was the head coach and guided the Lions to
14-0 record. Under current head coach, Scott Dicheck, the Lions are
now 39-0 in league action.
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