Vanderbilt Unversity women’s tennis team is going to play the ITA Kickoff Weekend. As reported by the Vanderbilt University website, Vandy will compete against Furman on Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina. On Sunday, the women’s team will face off against either NC State or Illinois for the opportunity to play in the 2023 ITA National Team Indoors Championships.
Commodores won their first dual match of the spring season, defeating Northwestern 5-2 on Jan. 22. Vandy will host Louisville for the spring home opener at 3 p.m. on Feb. Also as reported by Vanderbilt website, no. 35 Bridget Stammel continued to impress with her pair of singles victories on Jan.
22 against Northwestern’s No. 54 Christina Hand. The dual match also saw the No. 55-ranked duo of Anessa Lee and Celia-Belle Mohr extend their doubles team winning streak to six, helping the Dores earn the doubles point against Northwestern.
About Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a university in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1873 by Cornelius Vanderbilt with a donation of one million dollars. It hosts around 13,000 students. Vanderbilt spent $738 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 31st in the nation.
In 2013, Vanderbilt University was ranked ninth in the country in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Vanderbilt is ranked the 116th best university in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 33rd in the United States by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks Vanderbilt as the 62nd-best university in the world. Additionally the ARWU Field rankings in 2015 placed Vanderbilt as 18th best in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and 21st in Social Sciences.
Vanderbilt is a founding and charter member of the Southeastern Conference and for a half-century has been the conference’s only private school. The university fields six men’s and ten women’s intercollegiate teams and has won five NCAA championships. Photo credits: Vanerdbilt Unoversity website
