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Women's Tennis Opens at Cissie Leary Invitational
9.21.17 | Women's Tennis
Philadelphia-Temple's women's tennis team will open its season this Friday at the Cissie Leary event held on the University of Pennsylvania's campus in Philadelphia. The tournament will run from Friday Sept. 22- Sunday Sept. 24
Scouting the Owls
>Temple is led by head coach Steve Mauro who is in his sixth season at the helm of the program.
> The Owls finished last year with an 11-13 overall record with a 5-1 record at home.
>Temple will be looking for senior leadership from the trio of Alina Abdurahimova, Monet Stuckey-Willis's and Yana Khon. Abdurahimova has a 47-24 career record in singles, Stuckey-Willis has a 35-21 record over her three years in singles while Khon had an 11-10 record last year.
>Sophomore Cecilla Castelli also adds returning experience going 8-5 in singles matches last year.
>The Owls are very excited about the new additions to the roster. Senior Rimpledeep Kaur transferred from New Mexico State where she was the number one ranked player there for three years and sophomore Kristina Titova is a transfer from Hampton university where she was also a number one player.
>Temple also welcomes the additions of junior Alice Patch and freshman Oyku Boz.
Cissie Leary Innovational
> Since 1997, the Cissie Leary Invitational has honored Penn coach Cissie Leary, who served the women's tennis team from 1977 to 1996.
>Under her leadership, the Quakers managed to compile 229 wins leading to 16 winning seasons.
>In 1995, Leary guided Penn to the NCAA East Regional. Leary passed away in 1996 after a long battle with scleroderma. Since then, Penn has held the Invitational to honor her contributions.
Quotable
>"Our goal of course is to win the American Athletic Conference which is very tough on the women's side," said Temple head coach Steve Mauro. "We have a lot of new great players that I expect to make an immediate impact."
Next Up
>The Owls will travel to Princeton N.J. next week for the Princeton Invitational which will start Friday Sept. 29 and end Sunday Oct. 1.
Scouting the Owls
>Temple is led by head coach Steve Mauro who is in his sixth season at the helm of the program.
> The Owls finished last year with an 11-13 overall record with a 5-1 record at home.
>Temple will be looking for senior leadership from the trio of Alina Abdurahimova, Monet Stuckey-Willis's and Yana Khon. Abdurahimova has a 47-24 career record in singles, Stuckey-Willis has a 35-21 record over her three years in singles while Khon had an 11-10 record last year.
>Sophomore Cecilla Castelli also adds returning experience going 8-5 in singles matches last year.
>The Owls are very excited about the new additions to the roster. Senior Rimpledeep Kaur transferred from New Mexico State where she was the number one ranked player there for three years and sophomore Kristina Titova is a transfer from Hampton university where she was also a number one player.
>Temple also welcomes the additions of junior Alice Patch and freshman Oyku Boz.
Cissie Leary Innovational
> Since 1997, the Cissie Leary Invitational has honored Penn coach Cissie Leary, who served the women's tennis team from 1977 to 1996.
>Under her leadership, the Quakers managed to compile 229 wins leading to 16 winning seasons.
>In 1995, Leary guided Penn to the NCAA East Regional. Leary passed away in 1996 after a long battle with scleroderma. Since then, Penn has held the Invitational to honor her contributions.
Quotable
>"Our goal of course is to win the American Athletic Conference which is very tough on the women's side," said Temple head coach Steve Mauro. "We have a lot of new great players that I expect to make an immediate impact."
Next Up
>The Owls will travel to Princeton N.J. next week for the Princeton Invitational which will start Friday Sept. 29 and end Sunday Oct. 1.
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