Colby College Women's tennis program ranked nationally for first time in 15 years

WATERVILLE, Maine -- The Colby College women's tennis team made the national rankings for the third time and the first since 2003 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll released Thursday.

Colby is ranked 40th in the country under head coach Jason Cohen. The Mules were previously ranked in 1996 and 2003.

 

"This is a big step for our women's team in a lot of ways. Just three years ago this team was 5-12 and 0-7 in NESCAC and not regionally ranked," Cohen said. "Every year the team has worked hard and continued to make incremental improvements and always get better. It's all part of believing in the process and getting better everyday. If we stick to that this is just the start for us." 

 

Colby is 7-4 overall and will play host to Connecticut College on Saturday at 10 a.m.

 

Oracle/ITA Division III Women's National Team Rankings
Administered by the ITA
April 12, 2018
Through Results of 4/8/18
Rank	School	Previous Rank
1	Emory	1
2	Williams	2
3	Claremont-Mudd-Scripps	3
4	Middlebury	5
5	Wesleyan	4
6	Tufts	6
7	Pomona-Pitzer	7
8	Amherst	8
9	Carnegie Mellon	9
10	Chicago	10
11	Sewanee	11
12	Wash U St. Louis	12
13	MIT	13
14	Bowdoin	14
15	Washington&Lee	15
16	Case Western	16
17	Skidmore	17
18	Mary Washington	19
19	Trinity TX	20
20	Johns Hopkins	18
21	NYU	23
22	Brandeis	21
23	Kenyon	22
24	Christopher Newport	24
25	Linfield	27
26	Redlands	25
27	Bates	28
28	Trinity CT	29
29	Chapman	30
30	Vassar	31
31	Southwestern	26
32	Whitman	32
33	Wellesley	33
34	Lewis and Clark	34
35	Gustavus Adolphus	40
36	UT-Tyler	37
37	Denison	NR
38	Carleton	NR
39	UW-Whitewater	NR
40	Colby	NR