ST. PETER, Minn. — Several members of the Saint Mary's University women's tennis team will be taking part in the USTA-ITA Midwest Region Championships and Gustie Fall Invitational, hosted by Gustavus, beginning Friday and running through Sunday.

USTA-ITA Midwest Region Field:
Carleton, Carroll, Carthage, Coe, Concordia (Wis.), Concordia, Cornell, Edgewood, Grinnell, Gustavus, Hamline, Luther, Macalester, St. Catherine, Saint Mary's, St. Norbert, St. Olaf, St. Thomas, Wartburg, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Whitewater

USTA-ITA Midwest Region Draws:
Singles | Doubles

USTA-ITA Live On The Web:
Tournament Scoreboard

USTA-ITA Midwest Region Sites:
The Swanson Indoor Tennis Center, located on the west edge of the Gustavus campus in St. Peter, Minn., will serve as headquarters for the USTA/ITA Midwest Region Championships, with matches taking place at Swanson and the adjacent Brown Outdoor Courts.

USTA-ITA Midwest Region This And That:
Sixty-four of the top singles players and doubles teams in the Midwest will take part in the tournament, which will begin with singles matches on Friday morning at 9 a.m.  Tai Lucero of Coe comes in as the No. 1 overall seed in the singles draw of the USTA/ITA Midwest Regional.  Behind Lucero sits second-seeded Victoria Bravo of St. Catherine, third-seeded Alexandra Bayliss of UW-Whitewater, and fourth-seeded Anne Lombardi of Carleton. The doubles competition will begin on Friday immediately after the completion of the second round of singles play.  The duo of Anne Lombardi and Michaela Becich from Carleton will enter the tournament as the top-seeded doubles team.  They will be challenged by second-seeded Victoria Bravo and Kylie Ketcho of St. Catherine, third-seeded Alexandra Bayliss and Jackie Vitale of UW-Whitewater, and fourth-seeded Annie Mahoney and Michaela Schulz of Gustavus.

Cardinals at USTA-ITA Midwest Region — Their Last Appearance:
September 23-25, 2011: If people around the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference hadn't heard the name McKennah Edwards (Prior Lake, Minn.) before, they certainly have now. Edwards, playing in her first collegiate tennis tournament as a member of the Saint Mary's University women's tennis team, reached the championship match of the USTA-ITA Midwest Regional Championships Sunday, before falling to UW-Whitewater's Kalla Schaefer, 6-2, 6-2 | Day 1 Recap | Day 2 Recap | Day 3 Recap

Cardinals Up Next:
The Cardinals kick off their 2014 spring season on Feb. 1, when they host Carleton in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference match at the Winona Tennis Center.