Women's Tennis and Golf Win C-USA Championships
April 21, 2002
FORT WORTH, Texas - TCU added two more conference titles to its collection as the women's tennis team claimed the championship in Fort Worth and women's golf brought home the trophy from Hattiesburg, Miss. The titles bring TCU's total to four for its initial season in Conference USA as the Frogs have already claimed titles in women's basketball and men's indoor track.
The 29th-ranked TCU women's tennis team (20-4) defeated three seed Marquette, 4-1, on Sunday afternoon at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center in the title match of the 2002 Conference USA Women's Tennis Championship. The championship is the third-straight for the Frogs who also won back-to-back titles in the Western Athletic Conference in 2000 and 2001, and the fourth in the program's history.
For the first time since February 21, TCU did not win the doubles point to open the match. During the match Marquette's Gen Charron twisted her ankle and was forced to withdraw from her position at No. 1 singles. This evened the match, 1-1, as the squads headed into singles play. The Frogs rallied behind Paty Aburto, Leoni Weirich and Katrin Gaber's singles wins to claim the title.
The TCU women's golf team fired a season-low 290 in the final round of the Conference USA Women's Golf Championships to win the school's first C-USA women's golf title. The women started the day in second place, six shots behind Tulane. But, thanks to sophomore individual medalist Brooke Tull's course record 69, the Frogs were able to overcome the six-shot deficit in the final round.
TCU's 54-hole score of 886 established a Conference USA record for 54-hole scoring. In addition, Tull's three-under par score of 69 was not only her career best, but it allowed her to finish with a 54-hole total of 215 (-1), also a new league record. Tulane shot a final round score of 299 to finish in second place, three shots behind TCU.
Complete results and stories from today's action can be found on the women's tennis and women's golf pages.
