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Louisville senior Alejandro Calligari and Notre Dame junior Kristy Frilling were named BIG EAST Male Tennis Player of the Week and BIG EAST Female Tennis Player of the Week, respectively following dominating performances last week.

The BIG EAST Conference has announced dates and sites for its Olympic sport championships in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. The sites were awarded by the BIG EAST Championship and Competition Committee.

Louisville senior Viktor Maksimcuk and freshman Julia Fellerhoff earned the season’s first set of BIG EAST Tennis Player of the Week honors following dominating performances.

The 2011 BIG EAST Tennis season is underway.

Milwaukee - The Marquette University men's tennis team celebrated the team's 2009-10 accomplishment's Sunday night at the program's annual ...

Notre Dame senior women's tennis player Cosmina Ciobanu has been named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America second team.

Notre Dame's Kristy Frilling and Kali Krisik along with Louisville's Austen Childs capped off successful seasons by being named to the 2010 ITA All-America Tennis Team.

Louisville junior Austen Childs' run in the NCAA singles championship ended with a 6-1, 6-2 loss to Stanford's Bradley Klahn in the title match on May 30. Childs' runner-up finish is the best-ever for a Louisville player.

Two familiar names were called as 2010 BIG EAST Tennis Players of the Year, as Louisville junior Austen Childs earned his second straight annual recognition, while last season's Freshman of the Year, Notre Dame sophomore Kristy Frilling, also was honored. Frilling's teammate, Irish freshman Chrissie McGaffigan, was named women's Freshman of the Year, while Mike Lampa of St. John's earned the men's honor.

No. 1 seed Notre Dame won its 10th women's BIG EAST Tennis Championship title after defeating No. 3 seed DePaul 4-0. The Irish earned the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Championship and will be making their 15th consecutive appearance in the national tournament and 17th overall.

The top-seeded Cardinals bested the second seed Irish 4-0 to earn the program's second men's BIG EAST Tennis Championship title. Louisville earns the league's automatic berth into the 64-team NCAA Championship, marking its seventh NCAA invite.

Notre Dame sophomore Greg Andrews was named BIG EAST Men’s Tennis Player of the Week, while Irish senior Shannon Mathews was named BIG EAST Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.

DePaul senior Matija Palinic was named BIG EAST Men’s Tennis Player of the Week, while Notre Dame senior Shannon Mathews was named BIG EAST Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.

Rutgers tennis senior standout Amy Zhang was named a Gates Cambridge Scholar – one of 90 recipients worldwide selected to study at the prestigious university.

USF senior Yannick Yoshizawa was named BIG EAST Men’s Tennis Player of the Week and Notre Dame senior Shannon Mathews was named BIG EAST Women’s Tennis Player of the Week.

No. 1 seed Notre Dame and No. 2 seed USF will represent the women while No. 2 seed Louisville and No. 4 seed USF will play for the men.

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The conference also revealed the selection of DePaul’s Jasmin Kling as BIG EAST Freshman of the Year and Notre Dame head coach Jay Louderback as BIG EAST Coach of the Year.

The No. 8 seed Rutgers women’s tennis team picked up a 4-3 victory over No. 9 seed Cincinnati in a close match on Day one of the BIG EAST Tennis Championship.

The Marquette women shutout St. John’s 5-0 in match three of the BIG EAST Women’s Tennis Championship on Thursday.