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Women's Tennis: 2022 Season Preview

1/24/2022 10:33:00 AM

WINONA, Minn. — Here's a quick-hit, by-the-numbers look at the 2022 Saint Mary's women's tennis team.
 
Head coach:
• Jeff Halberg (24th season)
 
A Year Ago:
3-6 MIAC (7th) | 7-6 Overall
 
Returners to Watch:
• Zoie Becker (Junior | 2021 First-Team All-MIAC in singles. … Led the team in singles wins for the second straight year, finishing 11-2. … Owns 20 dual-match singles wins in her first two years as a Cardinal. … Posted a season- and career-high seven-match winning streak in 2021, after opening her freshman season in 2020 winning her first five collegiate matches. … Picked up her first collegiate dual-match singles win with a straight-set victory against Martin Luther on Jan. 25, 2020).
• Maggie Frye (Junior | Posted five singles wins for second straight year in 2021, while adding six doubles wins, also for a second straight year. … Picked up her first collegiate dual-match singles win with a straight-set victory against Martin Luther on Jan. 25, 2020).
• Emily Henderson (Sophomore | Finished with six singles wins and six doubles wins in freshman campaign in 2021. … Recorded first collegiate singles win against Loras on March 6, 2021).
• Maddie Dosser (Junior | Closed out her first Cardinal campaign in 2021 with five singles wins and a team-leading eight doubles wins. … Collected first collegiate singles win against Minnesota State-Mankato on March 10, 2021).
 
By The Numbers:
• 1: Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) picked up her first MIAC post-season honor in 2021, being named First-Team All-MIAC in singles.
• 4: The Cardinals had four athletes record their first collegiate singles wins in 2021 — Sarrianna Hoffer (Wausau, Wis.), Emily Henderson (Jordan, Minn.), Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.), and Maddie Dosser (South St. Paul, Minn.).
• 6: Six of the Cardinals' seven wins in 2021 came on their home court, where SMU finished 6-3. Saint Mary's — which played nine of its 13 matches at the Winona Tennis Center — picked up its lone road win with a 7-2 victory over Saint Benedict on April 10.
• 6-5: As a doubles team, Colleen Lois (Green Bay, Wis.)/Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.) ended 2021 with a team-leading six doubles victories, going 6-5 — all at No. 1.
• 8: The Cardinals' season-ending 7-2 win over Concordia on April 18, 2021 pushed their winning streak against the Cobbers to eight straight.
• 20: Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.) closed out the 2021 season winning four of her last five matches to end the year with a team-high 11 singles wins. Becker, who finished the pandemic-shortened 2020 season at 9-2, now owns a 20-4 career singles record.
 
Did You Know?
• Colleen Lois (Green Bay, Wis.) — the Cardinals' lone senior in 2021 — was the only Cardinal to play all 13 matches at the same position, going 6-7 at No. 1 singles.
 
Did You Know, Part II?
• With their 8-1 win over Northwestern on April 2, the Cardinals improved to 66-20 against nonconference opponents since 2012.
 
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