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(05/09/13 12:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Survive and advance. Athletic teams have often adopted this mantra come tournament time, and the No. 41 IU women’s tennis team is no exception. The Hoosiers’ season, which IU Coach Lin Loring described as a “roller coaster,” culminates in a trip to Clemson, S.C. to face No. 19 Vanderbilt (15-11, 7-6) Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Indiana earned an at-large bid on April 30 when the NCAA Championship bracket was announced.“The team is very excited,” Loring said. “No one on this team has ever been to Clemson. We have never gone more than two years in a row without a trip to the NCAAs, so this was really important for our program to go this year.”The Hoosiers’ last NCAA Tournament appearance was in 2010 when then-No. 28 Vanderbilt defeated No. 41 IU 4-0 in the first round.If Indiana (18-9, 6-5) can overcome its déjà vu and prevent history from repeating itself, the women will face the winner of the matchup between No. 13 Clemson and Eastern Kentucky. The winner of the four-team region will advance to the Round of 16 in Champaign, Ill.“We know Vanderbilt was almost a No. 1 seed, so we drew one of the best No. 2 seeds in the field,” Loring said. “That being said, we beat Duke earlier this season when they were No. 2 and later Michigan, who was ranked as high as No. 6. We are probably the three seed that no one wanted in their regional.”IU has reason to be confident entering the NCAA Tournament. Facing tough competition away from Bloomington is not a foreign concept for the Hoosiers. Indiana defeated No. 2 Duke on neutral courts in Las Vegas and No. 10 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., in March. IU faced the four best teams in the Big Ten — Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern and Purdue — on the road this season. The Hoosiers’ calling card this spring has been battling in every match despite running into some bad luck in terms of scheduling and injuries. Five of the team’s nine losses were 4-3 defeats against teams that are currently ranked in the top 50 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. The Hoosiers and Commodores have faced six common opponents this season. Vanderbilt defeated Illinois and Northwestern but suffered losses to Nebraska and Michigan. In conference play, Vandy lost to Tennessee and bested Kentucky. Michigan is the only one of those six teams that IU defeated.The Commodores finished seventh in the SEC and were bounced out of the conference tournament by No. 3 Florida in the quarterfinals. 2013 marks the 19th consecutive year Vanderbilt has earned an NCAA Tournament bid. Only one current Commodore, graduate student Megan Gornet, was on the Vanderbilt team that defeated IU in 2010, but she did not play in the first-round match. Similarly to IU, Vandy relies on a lot of youth. The Commodores’ top six singles players are comprised of three freshmen, two sophomores and one junior. Loring said that while “the whole (Vanderbilt) team has turned over” since 2010, there is a familiar face at the helm of the Commodores. Geoff Macdonald is in his 19th season as the head coach of the Vanderbilt women’s tennis team. Macdonald previously coached at Louisiana State and Duke, and he has earned a conference Coach of the Year honor at each school. Loring said he’s known Macdonald for years and has faced Macdonald at Vanderbilt, Duke and LSU. “His teams are always well-prepared and well-coached,” Loring said. “We know that they’re going to be a good match for us.”Vanderbilt junior Lauren Mira is ranked No. 63 in singles and freshman Georgina Sellyn is No. 95, according to the ITA. Mira and Courtney Colton are the No. 12 doubles tandem in the country. IU sophomore Katie Klyczek and senior Leslie Hureau are ranked No. 114 and No. 115 in singles competition. Hureau and sophomore Carolyn Chupa are No. 55 in doubles.Hureau and fellow senior Jithmie Jayawickrema are the only IU players with tournament experience. Hureau was a freshman when Vanderbilt defeated Indiana in 2010, and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championship in 2011.Jayawickrema played in last year’s NCAA Championship when she attended Stephen F. Austin. Tulsa defeated Stephen F. Austin 4-0 in the first round.Loring is no stranger to the NCAA Tournament. Friday’s match marks his 28th appearance in the 64-team field tournament as the Hoosiers’ head coach.Loring knows what to expect in the regional rounds of the NCAA Tournament. He said the atmosphere will be slightly different with the tournament banners at the courts and that the Hoosiers may not even see the other two teams in their region because they play at a different time on Friday.“At this point, we’ve played so many dual matches that I’m going to tell them that it’s just another dual match against a really good team,” Loring said.
(04/29/13 2:24am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s tennis team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament for the fifth consecutive year. The No. 38-ranked and No. 6-seeded Hoosiers fell 4-0 to No. 15-ranked and No. 3-seeded Northwestern, the No. 3 seed, Friday afternoon at the IU varsity tennis courts. The matchup was a rematch from April 21, when the Wildcats defeated IU 6-1 in Evanston, Ill. However, sophomore Carolyn Chupa did not play in the first meeting between the two teams due to a concussion. Chupa was cleared to play in the Big Ten Tournament, which created completely different matchups from Sunday’s conference bout. On Friday, there were four new singles and two new doubles matches. While the final score was lopsided, the match was competitive at every level. The doubles point was decided late in the No. 3 match and four of the six singles matches went to a third set. The No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5 singles matches ended unfinished. Senior Leslie Hureau, who is ranked No. 110 in the country, led No. 123 Veronica Corning 6-2, 4-3. Northwestern’s Belinda Niu had a slight lead against Chupa 7-5, 2-6, 4-3, while the No. 5 singles match was tied 5-5 in the third set. “I thought we had a battle on every court,” IU Coach Lin Loring said.He said the four-hour long match would have lasted another 45 minutes if all of the matches finished, which he said showed how evenly matched the two teams were. “We played well and I think we gave them everything they could handle,” he said.Chupa and Hureau teamed up for the No. 1 doubles match. They defeated No. 14 tandem Linda Abu Mushrefova/Nida Hamilton, 8-4. Sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy fell into a deep hole early as Veronica Corning and Alicia Barnett jumped out to a 6-1 lead. The Hoosiers fought back to cut Northwestern’s lead to 7-3 but ultimately lost the No. 2 doubles match 8-3. The No. 3 match was left to determine which team would win the doubles point. Northwestern’s Niu/Kate Turvy led sophomore Katie Klyczek and junior Sophie Garre 6-4 when the No. 2 match finished. Rallying around the energy of the fans and Garre’s emotional display of energy, IU fought back to tie the match at six games apiece. The Hoosiers struggled to land their serve returns in bounds and Northwestern won the No. 3 doubles match 8-6, taking the doubles point and a 1-0 lead in the quarterfinals. In the No. 2 singles match, No. 51 Turvy tested her underhand slice serve against No. 103 Klyczek and prevailed 6-3, 6-1 to increase Northwestern’s lead to 2-0. Loring said Klyczek’s matchup was a challenge for her due to the contrast in their play styles. He said Turvy suffered a shoulder injury and can’t serve overhand. “When you’ve never played against someone who cuts the ball like that it’s tough,” he said. “It’s a tough serve, and she’s perfected it.”Despite the loss in the No. 2 match, Loring said Klyczek showed a lot of improvement from April 21 when Turvy defeated her 6-1, 6-0.“Katie needs a hitter,” he said. “She wants to play with someone that hits. That girl has a great loop and a great slice, and it’s the absolute worst matchup for Katie. We knew that was going to be a tough match.”Mushrefova defeated Kauss in the No. 4 singles match 6-0, 3-6, 6-3 to bring Northwestern one step closer to advancing to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Hamilton ended the match when she came from behind to top senior Jithmie Jayawickrema 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 in the No. 6 position. “We put ourselves in the position to win,” Loring said. “There were four three-set matches, the two that were two sets we were going to win one of them and they won one of them. It’s about as close as it can get. I know the girls are really disappointed, especially to lose at home but I thought we represented ourselves really well.”After suffering a loss to the Wildcats, the Hoosiers fell to 18-9 on the season, which is an improvement from their 16-11 record last year.IU will take the weekend off then resume practice May 6-7 in hopes that the team is given an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships.The NCAA Championships Selection Show will be live streamed at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. on NCAA.com
(04/26/13 2:27am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 38 IU women’s tennis team, the 6-seed in the Big Ten Tournament, bounced back from a pair of losses last weekend by defeating 11-seed Wisconsin 4-0 in the first round Thursday afternoon.The team will play 3-seed Northwestern, the No. 15 team in the nation, at 2 p.m. Friday. “It was really good,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “We hadn’t played on the courts since they had been resurfaced so I’m happy that we got to play outdoors and happy to get the win.”IU has had Wisconsin’s number recently. The Hoosiers defeated the Badgers 7-0 April 14 at home and knocked them off in the first round of last year’s Big Ten Tournament.“It was definitely a confidence booster because we kicked their butt,” sophomore Carolyn Chupa said.Thursday marked the first time Indiana played on the resurfaced IU Varsity Tennis Courts.Playing outdoors brought gusts of wind that the Hoosiers had not experienced during their months of indoor training at the IU Tennis Center. “In the beginning it was really windy, especially for me because I was playing a girl who was pretty crafty so she wasn’t missing much at the beginning,” senior Leslie Hureau said. “I had to adjust and make sure that I was patient.”Despite the variables that came with playing outdoors, playing in Bloomington is an advantage for the Hoosiers.Chupa said IU has a bigger fan base because the team is hosting the tournament and also said that she benefits from staying at home.Hureau said it was nice for the team to not have to travel at the end of the season when the women are tired from conference play. “It’s nice to be home and we have a nice crowd,” she said. “It’s just awesome for me to play one more time in front of everyone, especially with all of the parents coming, it’s great.”Chupa was back in the lineup after not playing last weekend due to a concussion. She and Hureau were paired for the No. 1 doubles match. The duo jumped out to a 4-0 lead and Wisconsin struggled to return the ball within the court.IU won the No. 1 match 8-4 and the sophomore tandem of Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy defeated Katie Hoch and Anastasia Tripolskaya 8-2 in the No. 2 position to earn the overall doubles point.Since Penn State and Minnesota played simultaneously with IU and Wisconsin, each match was allotted 5 of the 10 IU Varsity courts for singles play. The tournament officials drew the number two, which meant sophomore Katie Klyczek, who is ranked No. 103 in singles, and Wisconsin’s Lauren Chypyha had to wait until another match finished before they started playing in the No. 2 singles match. The team had a slow start in singles and the Hoosiers were losing early in three of the five singles matches. Loring said patience was critical in the first round matchup. Both Hureau and junior Sophie Garre were losing early in their matches before winning four consecutive games to win their first sets of the No. 1 and No. 5 singles matches, respectively. Later, within the span of seconds, Chupa won the No. 3 singles match 6-2, 6-2 against Tripolskaya and Hureau defeated Berner 6-3, 6-1 in the No. 1 match to give IU a 3-0 lead. Kauss worked efficiently and defeated Lauren Burich 6-1, 6-1 in the No. 4 spot to earn IU’s fourth and final point of the match.With the victory, IU will face Northwestern with the chance to move on to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals Saturday.The Hoosiers lost 6-1 to the Wildcats in Evanston, Ill. last Sunday.“Carolyn is back in the lineup so we’re going to have different matchups,” Hureau said. “It’s never good to play someone who just beat you three days ago so that’s going to be good for us.”Loring said for IU to defeat Northwestern, the women will have to play better than they did against Wisconsin, especially in doubles. “I can definitely say that we’re kind of gunning for them since we lost,” Chupa said. “We have the home court advantage now and since I’m playing I know the lineup changes so it will be a different match.”
(04/25/13 2:30am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the first time since 2002, IU will play host to the Big Ten Women’s Tennis Tournament in Bloomington this weekend.The No. 38 Hoosiers (17-8, 6-5), who finished as the 6-seed, will face 11-seed Wisconsin at 2 p.m. today in their opening-round match. The top four teams in the conference — No. 6 Michigan, No. 16 Nebraska, No. 15 Northwestern and No. 28 Purdue — will receive first round byes and play the winners of today’s opening round matches. Matches will begin every day at 10 a.m., except for Sunday, when the championship match will be played at noon.Weather permitting, all matches will take place at the outdoor IU Varsity Tennis Courts, and in the case of inclement weather, matches will be played indoors at the IU Tennis Center. On Tuesday evening, IU Coach Lin Loring said on a radio show that for matches to be played outdoors, the temperature must be at least 50 degrees and the wind cannot exceed 20 miles per hour. It will be mostly sunny on Thursday with a high temperature of 58 degrees and 16 mile-per-hour winds, according to weather.com. It is projected to be cloudy with temperatures in the 60s and a low chance of rain for the rest of the weekend. “We’ve actually played really well outdoors, but unfortunately with the way the spring has been, we haven’t had too many opportunities to play outdoors,” Loring said. “We’re confident that whatever way the weather holds this weekend, we can do well.”Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota and Wisconsin tied with a 3-8 record in the Big Ten. Loring said the teams were so close that the conference office had difficulty breaking the tie. Based on the tiebreaking rules, Iowa finished eighth, Ohio State ninth, Minnesota 10th and Wisconsin 11th. The Hoosiers defeated the Badgers 7-0 on April 14 in Bloomington. “I don’t think there will be any surprises,” Loring said. “We’ll know how to prepare for them, and they’ll know how to prepare for us since we just played.” IU bested Wisconsin 4-0 in the first round of last year’s Big Ten Tournament before falling to Michigan in the quarterfinals.The other opening round matchups are 8-seed Iowa vs. 9-seed Ohio State, 5-seed Illinois vs. 12-seed Michigan State and 7-seed Penn State vs. 10-seed Minnesota. The Big Ten Tournament will feature eight nationally ranked teams, 13 ranked singles players and 11 ranked doubles combinations.IU has two ranked singles players. Sophomore Katie Klyczek is ranked No. 103 in the nation, and senior Leslie Hureau is No. 110. Playing in the Big Ten Tournament at home could prove to be a significant advantage for the Hoosiers. IU is 10-3 in Bloomington this season, and earlier in the season Loring said the Hoosiers are “fresher” at home.He said the women are excited for the tournament and that the advantages of hosting it extend beyond having the home-court advantage. “They realize what an advantage it is to be here, and finals start Monday,” he said. “A couple years ago were in the airport in Minnesota on Sunday night with finals on Monday.”Loring said a lot of the players’ parents will be in town for the tournament, including Hureau’s parents, who will travel from France to watch their daughter play in Bloomington for the final time. Loring said he feels good and that the women are really excited knowing that they’re going to be at full strength. “I think the girls feel really confident going into that first match, and they know that they have to take care of business before looking ahead to Northwestern,” he said.
(04/24/13 8:59pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For the first time since 2002, IU will play host to the Big Ten Women’s Tennis Tournament in Bloomington this weekend.The No. 38 Hoosiers (17-8, 6-5), who finished as the 6-seed, will face 11-seed Wisconsin at 2 p.m. today in their opening-round match. The top four teams in the conference — No. 6 Michigan, No. 16 Nebraska, No. 15 Northwestern and No. 28 Purdue — will receive first round byes and play the winners of today’s opening round matches. Matches will begin every day at 10 a.m., except for Sunday, April 28, when the championship match will be played at 2 p.m.Weather pending, all matches will take place at the outdoor IU Varsity Tennis Courts and matches will be played indoors at the IU Tennis Center if there is inclement weather. On Tuesday evening, IU Coach Lin Loring said on a radio show that for matches to be played outdoors, the temperature must be at least 50 degrees and the wind cannot exceed 20 miles per hour. According to weather.com, it will be mostly sunny on Thursday with a high temperature of 58 degrees and 16 mile-per-hour winds. It is projected to be cloudy with temperatures in the 60s and a low chance of rain for the rest of the weekend. “We’ve actually played really well outdoors but unfortunately with the way the spring has been, we haven’t had too many opportunities to play outdoors,” Loring said. “We’re confident that whatever way the weather holds this weekend we can do well.”Iowa, Ohio State, Minnesota and Wisconsin tied with a 3-8 record in the Big Ten. Loring said that the teams were so close that the conference office had difficulty breaking the tie. Based on the tiebreaking rules, Iowa finished eighth, Ohio State ninth, Minnesota tenth and Wisconsin eleventh. The Hoosiers defeated the Badgers 7-0 on April 14 in Bloomington. “I don’t think there will be any surprises, we’ll know how to prepare for them and they’ll know how to prepare for us since we just played,” Loring said. IU bested Wisconsin 4-0 in the first round of last year’s Big Ten Tournament before falling to Michigan in the quarterfinals.The other opening round matchups are 8-seed Iowa vs. 9-seed Ohio State, 5-seed Illinois vs. 12-seed Michigan State and 7-seed Penn State vs. 10-seed Minnesota. The Big Ten Tournament will feature eight nationally ranked teams, 13 ranked singles players and 11 ranked doubles combinations.IU has two ranked singles players. Sophomore Katie Klyczek is ranked No. 103 in the nation and senior Leslie Hureau is No. 110. Playing in the Big Ten Tournament at home could prove to be a significant advantage for the Hoosiers. IU is 10-3 in Bloomington this season and earlier in the season Loring said that the Hoosiers are “fresher” at home.He said the women are excited for the tournament, and that the advantages of hosting it extend beyond having the home-court advantage. “They realize what an advantage it is to be here and finals start Monday,” he said. “A couple years ago were in the airport in Minnesota on Sunday night with finals on Monday.”Loring said a lot of the players’ parents will be in town for the tournament, including Hureau’s parents, who will travel from France to watch their daughter play in Bloomington for the final time. Loring said he feels good and that the women are really excited knowing that they’re going to be at full strength. “I think the girls feel really confident going into that first match and they know that they have to take care of business before looking ahead to Northwestern,” he said.
(04/22/13 4:21am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Entering the weekend, the No. 34 IU women’s tennis team hoped to improve to one of the top-four teams in the conference, which would give the team a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament. However, IU dropped its final two regular season matches to fall to sixth place.On Friday, No. 47 Illinois edged out IU 4-3 in Bloomington and No. 16 Northwestern defeated IU 6-1 Sunday in Evanston, Ill. IU was without sophomore Carolyn Chupa, who has been playing in the No. 3 singles position and No. 1 doubles combination.“Our depth, which has been our strength, really took a hit today,” IU Coach Lin Loring said Friday. “Two doubles teams and four singles players played out of position.”Despite winning the No. 3 doubles match against the Illini, the Hoosiers lost the doubles point. In the No. 1 match, Illinois’ No. 25 combination of Melissa Kopinski and Rachel White bested IU’s sophomore tandem of Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy 8-6. Allison Falkin and Misia Kedzierski topped seniors Leslie Hureau and Jithmie Jayawickrema 8-5 in the No. 2 position.The Fighting Illini took a 2-0 lead when No. 102 Falkin defeated No. 97 sophomore Katie Klyczek 6-0, 6-2 in the No. 2 singles match. IU fought back when No. 119 Hureau bested No. 109 Kopinski 6-1, 6-4 in the No. 1 position. Illinois responded with a victory in the No. 5 match; Kedzierski topped Jayawickrema 6-1, 6-3. With Illinois one point from winning the dual match, Kauss defeated Breanne Smutko 6-4, 6-3 in the No. 3 spot to cut IU’s deficit to 3-2.White won the match for the Fighting Illini when she topped junior Sophie Garre in the No. 4 match 6-3, 6-3. “I thought we could cover up Carolyn Chupa being out of the lineup in singles and doubles, but we could not,” Loring said. “Illinois played really well today and took advantage of our weaknesses.”Northwestern started strong against IU by winning the first two doubles matches and earning the doubles point. The Wildcats jumped out to a 3-0 lead when No. 49 Kate Turvy bested No. 97 Klyczek 6-1, 6-0 in the No. 2 singles match and Barnett defeated Murdy 6-2, 6-3 in the No. 6 spot. No. 119 Hureau put the Hoosiers on the board when she topped No. 122 Corning 6-2, 6-2. However, that was not enough for IU and Northwestern won the three remaining singles matches. Brittany Wowchuk secured the win for the Wildcats when she defeated Jayawickrema 7-5, 6-1 in the No. 5 singles position. As the No. 6 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, IU will play Thursday against the No. 11 seed.
(04/19/13 3:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Assembly Hall, constructed in 1968, is the hallowed home of the IU men’s and women’s basketball teams. It accommodates 17,472 fans and its 7,800-seat student section is one of the country’s largest. Assembly Hall is most often associated with the five crimson men’s basketball national championship banners that hang from its rafters, not the trash left behind each game by the thousands of fans. Assembly Hall’s waste management system will undergo a period of assessment and improvement in the offseason in order to be even more effective next year.Heather Reynolds, an IU associate professor of biology, organized a service-learning project for her HUBI-B 300 Human Dilemmas course. She contacted Mark Milby, a No Waste Program coordinator at the IU Office of Sustainability, when she needed help setting up a waste audit. “I think specifically we knew we wanted to do one of Assembly Hall because it was basketball season,” he said. “I’ve probably done about a dozen of them now over the last four or five years and I’ve definitely learned how to make them statistically rigorous. I know it may sound silly but it’s essentially glorified digging through the trash.”Milby and Erik Schneider, the greening the athletics department intern at the Office of Sustainability, teamed up to carry out the waste audit of Assembly Hall. Based on the inefficiencies of Assembly Hall’s waste bins, the waste audit team of Schneider, Milby and three undergraduate students created an experiment that utilized Assembly Hall’s symmetry. The arena is identical on either side of Branch McCracken Court, with the only difference being the fans themselves.“It was actually a really nice situation to run an experiment because Assembly Hall is kind of symmetrical,” Schneider said. “It allows two different environments to be pretty much the same and it allowed us to test a variable that way. The variable was this new recycling bin.”Milby said there was good chemistry between he and Schneider.“It was just a good compromise because he’s in the know about athletics. He’s been working with all of those people and has established good contact and rapport with them,” Milby said. “I’ve done plenty of waste audits in the past, designed them and carried them out.”Schneider said that by observing the current trash and recycling systems at Assembly Hall, he thought there was room for improvement. “Hearing about different things about recycling and trash kind of made me think that there was a possibility to try out a new system,” he said.Bob Gilmore, the custodial shift supervisor of the IU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, said that Coca-Cola™ recycling bins create problems for properly managing waste at Assembly Hall.“When they stick a cup in one of these Coke bins and it clogs the lid, the people who are trying to put recycling in can’t get it in there,” Gilmore said. “You have to take the lid off and push it back out to get it out. People care about it but they’re not going to go the extra mile and they’re sure not going to lift a trash can lid to fix it.”On one side of Assembly Hall, there were six Coca-Cola™ bins that represented the control group. On the opposite side, there were six of the standard blue recycling bins. Three had holes designed for cups and three had the entire faceplate removed to allow for larger items to be recycled.Schneider also added a second variable by creating signs that instructed fans in which bin to throw their waste. Schneider made signs with prompts for both types of waste, which included pictures and labels for waste items from the concession stands as well as arrows pointing to the correct bin. The signs were placed above only the blue recycling bins and the trashcans that were paired with them. Schneider said that the goal of the waste audits, with their control and experimental groups, was to examine contamination. He defined contamination as recyclable items in the trash or trash in recycling bins. Schneider said that it was important for the waste audits to provide a representative sample of the waste management for all of Assembly Hall. “There is a main upper level with a series of concessions and we were mostly looking there but we also wanted to get some of the items from the seats, some of the items from the ground floor concessions, the court level, and some of the items from the lobby too,” he said.Schneider, Milby and the undergraduate students collected the bags after three IU men’s basketball games and took them to the Office of Sustainability house on 10th Street. “We set up a document that had all of the items that we expected to find and then we tallied what we found,” Schneider said. “One person would go through the recycling and trash and basically count what they found.”He said that the group then weighed the trash and recycling in each bag. They entered the data into Excel spreadsheets and analyzed the results.“Basically we found what we expected and hoped to find in that the blue bins were more effective in capturing recycling than the Coca-Cola™ bins,” Schneider said. “The circular openings tended to collect a little bit more as well and they also had less contamination because it kind of prompts you to not throw trash in there.”After analyzing the data, Schneider discovered several specific statistics. Blue recycling bins with circular openings captured more than five bottles and more than six cups above those captured in the Coca-Cola™ recycling bins, on average. Also, the waste audit team did not find a single bottle in a trashcan that was paired with a blue recycling bin with a circular opening. Additionally, the blue recycling bins with rectangular openings captured an average of more than 60 recyclable paper containers. The most extreme statistic that Schneider calculated is that the trash bins that were not paired with recycling bins had an average contamination rate of 166 percentby weight, which meant that more than two-thirds of the contents could have been recycled. Although, Schneider said that the use of two variables, the new recycling bin design and the waste management signs, in the waste audit experiment, make it difficult to determine which factor had a stronger influence on the amounts of waste in the bins.“One way it kind of makes it difficult to tease out which factor was more important in capturing recycling,” he said. “We treat them as a combined effect of the posters plus this new type of bin.”Schneider came away from the waste audits with three recommendations to improve Assembly Hall’s waste management system: if available, replace Coke recycling bins with blue recycling bins, pair trash and recycling bins, and to test a pilot program to recycle just the cups left behind in the seats. Vivien Nsonwu, one of the undergraduate students who assisted with the audit, echoed the Office of Sustainability employees. “I think we came down to two options,” she said. “One is either you can redefine what is recyclable. We can change the bins to set up a system where a recycling bin is next to a trash can so people can decide.” Nsonwu said that another option to improve Assembly Hall’s waste management is to make a bin where the hole is a specific size so it will force people to make conscious decisions about what type of waste they put in a specific container. The IU Office of Sustainability has a model off which to base its waste management system improvements. Milby said Ohio State University achieved the highest diversion rate ever for a stadium the size of Ohio Stadium, which is the university’s football stadium that seats over 100,000 fans. “So 98 percent of the trash people made was either composted or recycled,” he said. “We don’t have composting here yet but what they did was from a purchasing standpoint, they made sure that everything being sold in the stadium was either recyclable or compostable, like a compostable plate or forks or napkins.”He said that by making waste either compostable or recyclable, the need for trashcans is eliminated. “It’s a super cool way to do it,” Milby said. “We’re totally there on board, we do great things with recycling at the university but we’re not there yet with composting with that kind of composting that would require for all of those items.”
(04/19/13 2:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After defeating Minnesota and Wisconsin at home last weekend, the No. 34 IU women’s tennis team (17-6, 6-3) is guaranteed to finish the season with a conference record above .500. The Hoosiers have two dual matches remaining. IU will play No. 47 Illinois at 3 p.m. Friday at home and then the team will travel to Evanston, Ill., to face No. 16 Northwestern at noon Sunday. IU is 10-2 at home this season, with the team’s only losses being 4-3 losses against teams ranked in the top 40. The majority of the Hoosiers’ losses this season have come on the road. By the time the season is finished, IU will have faced the top four teams in the conference on the road this season, in addition to Tennessee and Kentucky, who are currently ranked in the top 50. The Fighting Illini (12-9, 5-4) are in sole possession of sixth place in the Big Ten. They have won six of their last seven matches, including wins against No. 38 Penn State and No. 62 Ohio State last weekend. Illinois has defeated IU in each of the past four times that the schools have met. IU Coach Lin Loring said he expects the match to be a toss-up.“They’re playing much better the last couple weeks so I expect that to be a really good match for us,” he said.Northwestern (13-8, 7-2) is tied for third in the conference with No. 27 Purdue. The Wildcats have won five of their past six dual matches, including two consecutive against ranked opponents. Northwestern’s résumé is filled with impressive victories. The Wildcats defeated No. 38 Arkansas, No. 26 Purdue, No. 19 Notre Dame, No. 19 Baylor, No. 33 Illinois, No. 38 Penn State, and No. 62 Ohio State this season. They will put their 8-4 home record on the line against the Hoosiers on Sunday. Senior Kate Turvy and junior Veronica Corning are ranked No. 49 and No. 122 in singles, respectively. The Wildcats’ doubles combination of Linda Abu Mushrafova and Nida Hamilton is ranked No. 18 in the country. IU will have its hands full against Northwestern. Northwestern has finished in the top two places in the conference every year since 1998 and the Wildcats won the Big Ten Tournament every year from 1998-11. During the past decade, Northwestern is 12-0 against IU and the Wildcats outscored the Hoosiers 69-7 during that span. Loring said Northwestern’s indoor courts have a medium speed so he doesn’t expect them to give IU any trouble. However, if the matches are played outdoors, he said the weather and courts could affect the playing conditions.“If we’re outdoors, there’s cold wind off the lake so it can get a little cold up there,” Loring said. “They actually have new outdoor courts that we haven’t played on yet.”The Hoosiers are in sole possession of fifth place in the Big Ten. IU is two wins behind the conference leaders and one win from being tied for third place. The top four teams earn first round byes in the Big Ten Tournament, which likely means that the Hoosiers will have to win both matches this weekend.“A bye is always good because it’s tough to play four days in a row if you get to the finals,” Loring said. “Every team is dinged up at this time of the year so a bye is really big and that’s why you normally don’t see teams that don’t get a bye make it to the finals.”
(04/18/13 4:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For IU senior women’s tennis player Jithmie Jayawickrema, home is Colombo, Sri Lanka, where she first discovered her love for tennis. “It was pretty much my life,” Jayawickrema said. “I mean, I didn’t have anything else but tennis.”Jayawickrema started playing when she was 8 years old, and she represented Sri Lanka in the Federation Cup, the world’s largest international women’s tennis team competition, by the time she was 17.At the junior level for International Tennis Federation play, Jayawickrema compiled 73 total victories. She was a four-time national champion in Sri Lanka from 2005-08, and her ITF junior world ranking peaked at 309. Jayawickrema attended Bishop’s College in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before committing to Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Tex., in January 2011. “In high school, that was the thing to do, for you to go to the U.S. and get a scholarship to play tennis,” Jayawickrema said. “In my country, there were a lot of people who did that, but for me it was a big deal to come here.”Last year, Jayawickrema was a first-team All-Southland Conference selection in doubles play after posting a 20-3 record and being ranked as high as No. 17 nationally. Despite her successes at SFA, Jayawickrema decided she needed a change. “I talked to the coaches here (at IU), and I really liked them, so I decided to take a visit to see how it was,” Jayawickrema said. “I really liked it.”She also considered transferring to Purdue, Virginia, N.C. State and Central Florida but ultimately decided to attend IU, where she found her home away from home in Bloomington. “I liked it here because the coaches made me feel like I’m more welcome, and I’m more comfortable here,” Jayawickrema said. “When I came to visit, they really made me feel like I’m at home.”She said the coaches helped her transition smoothly to IU. “Both of them are so helpful to me,” Jayawickrema said. “They’re just so nice. They’re some of the nicest coaches I know personally, so it helps you to get through your matches and in the whole season. They care about you.”Jayawickrema said the team’s preseason goals were to win the Big Ten, get to the NCAA Championships and be ranked in the top 30. As the season has progressed, the Sri Lanka native, who aspires to go to graduate school to study physical therapy, has had more opportunities to help the Hoosiers accomplish their lofty goals. “She’s been our first one off the bench up until now,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “I think she’s excited to be in the starting lineup, and she just needs matches right now. She’s only been in the lineup for three or four starting matches, so she’s still kind of getting her feet wet.”Loring said Jayawickrema’s biggest match of the season was defeating the No. 13 player in the nation, Nebraska’s Maike Zeppernick, 6-4, 6-4 in the No. 6 singles match April 7.“I’m hoping that that match will give her a lot of confidence for the rest of the conference season and the Big Ten Tournament and hopefully the NCAA Tournament,” Loring said.In a competitive conference with four Big Ten teams ranked in the top 25, Jayawickrema might prove to be the spark the Hoosiers need to accomplish their preseason goals. Not only is her 15-1 record in her past 16 singles matches the best for any IU player, but Jayawickrema is 9-1 in the No. 6 singles spot. IU is 7-5 when any other player competes in the same position.She said IU’s two wins against top 10 opponents, No. 2 Duke and No. 10 Michigan, brought the team together and that the team’s chemistry is peaking at the right time.In addition to IU’s team unity, the Hoosiers’ home-court advantage will be one of their biggest assets in the postseason. Jayawickrema said she thinks IU can do well when the team plays host for the Big Ten Tournament at the IU Tennis Center, where the Hoosiers are 10-2 this season. It is only fitting that in her senior season the Big Ten Tournament is in Bloomington, on a campus she has grown to love as her second home. “I think (I) just like the atmosphere itself. It’s not like it’s a big city at all,” Jayawickrema said. “I like it that way, and I love the campus.“Just being around it, you feel like you’re at home. You don’t feel like you’re out of place.”
(04/15/13 1:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Coming off long road trips during the previous two weekends, the No. 34 IU women’s tennis team had a strong stand at home with victories against Minnesota and Wisconsin. IU defeated Minnesota 6-1 on Saturday and swept Wisconsin 7-0 on Sunday. With the pair of wins over the weekend, the Hoosiers improved to 17-6 (6-3), and IU is in sole possession of fifth place in the Big Ten.IU Coach Lin Loring said the Hoosiers’ decisive victories will help the team’s confidence because the women are playing very well.“We’ve been playing well now for four or five weeks,” he said. “We’re pretty competitive at every position. I think it will just help us keep our momentum going.”On Saturday, IU won the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles matches 8-3 to take an early lead against Minnesota. In the No. 1 position, senior Leslie Hureau and sophomore Carolyn Chupa bested Natallia Pintusava and Raula Rincon Otero. Junior Sophie Garre and sophomore Katie Klyczek topped Tereza Brichacova and Jessika Mozia in the No. 3 spot. Loring changed the team’s doubles combinations in the middle of March, and he said he will not make any more changes because the current doubles tandems are playing well.“I think the girls are comfortable with them, and we’re playing pretty competitively at every position,” he said.The Hoosiers played quickly and controlled the singles matches against the Golden Gophers. IU won the No. 3, No. 6, No. 2 and No. 5 singles matches in consecutive sets to give IU the victory and a 5-0 lead. Chupa defeated Otero 6-0, 6-4 in the No. 3 match. Senior Jithmie Jayawickrema topped Yuliana Umanets 6-3, 6-1 in the No. 6 position. No. 90 Klyczek bested Brichacova 7-5, 6-2 in the No. 2 match. Garre defeated Aria Lambert 6-2, 6-4 in the No. 5 spot. No. 122 Hureau came from behind to earn IU’s final point of the match when she bested Pintusava 4-6, 6-0, 6-3. Minnesota’s only singles victory was in the No. 4 match after IU had already won the dual match. Mozia defeated sophomore Alecia Kauss 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 1-0 (10-7). IU notched its ninth 7-0 victory of the season against Wisconsin.IU won the doubles point after winning the No. 1 and No. 3 matches by 8-3 margins. Hureau and Chupa defeated Hannah Berner/Lauren Chypyha in the No. 1 position. In the No. 3 match, Garre/Klyczek topped Helen Rabot/Lauren Burich. The Hoosiers’ dominant play continued in the singles matches. Every IU player won the first set of her match, and the Hoosiers lost only 10 games in their first sets. Hureau won the No. 1 match against Wisconsin’s Berner 6-0, 6-1 after hitting a flurry of shots which were always a few steps outside of Berner’s reach. In the No. 3 singles match, Chupa bested Anastasia Tripolskaya 6-2, 6-1. Jayawickrema won the match point for IU when she topped Pernilla Wohlstrom 6-1, 6-0 in the No. 6 position. In the No. 2 spot, Klyczek defeated Chypyha 6-4, 6-4 and Kauss took care of business in the No. 4 match by topping Burich 6-2, 6-3. After winning the first set of the No. 5 match 6-1, Garre lost the second set 2-6 to Katie Hoch. With her teammates cheering for her from a nearby court, Garre won the tiebreaker 10-4 to win the match, which capped off IU’s 7-0 victory. Loring said the team’s biggest focus for the remainder of the season is trying to get healthy but also making practices just long enough that the women don’t lose their edge. “At this point in the season, you’re not re-inventing the wheel,” he said. “You’re just trying to keep the wheel turning.”IU will play Illinois on Friday at home before traveling to Northwestern on Sunday to wrap up the team’s regular season schedule. Jayawickrema said the team’s goal is to win the final two dual matches.“We do need to be consistent so that we have a good momentum going into the Big Ten Tournament,” she said.The four-day Big Ten Tournament begins on April 25 at IU.
(04/15/13 1:57am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“To win without risk is to triumph without glory,” Pierre Corneille, a 17th-century French playwright who has been dubbed the “founder of French tragedy,” wrote. More than 300 years later, Leslie Hureau, a native of France and an IU senior on the IU women’s tennis team, is wrapping up an illustrious career that was only made possible by taking a risk — one giant leap of faith across “the pond” from Annecy-le-Vieux, France to Bloomington.Hureau started her tennis career at the age of four when she picked up a tennis racket for the first time. “Both of my parents played so they just brought me with them and since then I’ve been practicing a lot,” she said. “I was doing skiing at some point but after that it was tennis and obviously when I came here, tennis was a big part of my college life.”Hureau, who was a top-ranked Alpine skier in France at a young age, said she watched some of her older friends who played at her tennis club go to the United States to play in college, and she knew she would like to continue her career at the collegiate level. “Among tennis players, there are a reasonable amount of people who do that,” she said.Despite knowing that playing tennis at a Division I university in the U.S. was an option for her future, Hureau said she didn’t know much about the college selection process.“Honestly, before I came I didn’t really have a clue,” Hureau said. “I know the American girls, they look at all of the rankings and they talk to so many people.”IU Coach Lin Loring said Hureau used a college search service in France that eventually culminated in Hureau visiting three American universities with her mother. She said she didn’t know much about the Big Ten Conference or IU but she visited Bloomington for a campus visit. The Lycée Berthollet product talked to Loring and she found she would have a scholarship to play for the Hoosiers. “She came over with her mom and her mom speaks fluent English so her mom did most of the talking,” Loring said. “Actually, Leslie didn’t speak a lot of English. I think she understood it, but she didn’t talk a lot and she was shy.”After visiting campus as well as talking to the coaching staff and players, Hureau was ready to embrace the Cream and Crimson. “I came on a visit and when I came I thought it was really nice, the campus, the coaches and players,” she said.Hureau said Loring and IU Associate Head Coach Ramiro Azcui are coaches who don’t just care about tennis. “They care about you as an individual,” Hureau said. “They want to make sure that I’m okay after college. They’re both great coaches, great people.”Hureau said her French classmates, who did not come from the same tennis background as her and her tennis peers, did not understand her decision to attend college on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. However, those who questioned her college choice did not see first-hand the opportunities that IU had to offer Hureau.“It was a really easy decision to come to IU,” she said.Hureau’s decision to attend IU was her first step as she embarked on a collegiate tennis career in the U.S. as the Hoosiers’ No. 1 singles player.From the start of her college career, Hureau defeated nationally ranked opponents and was recognized with prestigious honors. In her freshman campaign, Hureau was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rookie of the Year for the Ohio Valley Region as well as she was awarded with First Team All-Big Ten honors after posting a 25-11 singles record. Hureau’s most successful season individually was her sophomore year when advanced to the round of 16 in the 2011 NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championship tournament. She was also honored as a singles All-American selection. Once again, she was named to the All-Big Ten First Team and finished the season ranked No. 57 in singles. As a junior, Hureau defeated four ranked Big Ten opponents in singles, finished the season ranked No. 77 nationally, and earned First Team All-Big Ten honors for the third consecutive year. Hureau is 21-12 in singles this season in the No. 1 position for IU and she has defeated three nationally ranked opponents. Loring said Hureau’s game has become more defined during her time at IU. “It’s not like she’s learned a new shot that she didn’t have,” he said. “She’s gotten better at what she does and she’s refined the game that she has.”Despite her on-court successes this season, Hureau’s importance to the IU women’s tennis team extends beyond registering wins in dual matches.“She’s been our team captain this year and she’s done a great job because we’re still a really young team,” Loring said. “She’s just done a great job setting an example whether it’s in the classroom or on the court. She’s a great senior leader.”With two regular season dual matches remaining this year, the senior has compiled a 92-46 singles record and 83-54 doubles record over the course of her career at IU. Despite all of her individual accomplishments and awards, Hureau, who is currently ranked No. 122 in singles, said the IU women’s tennis team defeating two top ten opponents this season in Duke (2nd) and Michigan (10th) is one of her fondest memories from her time in Bloomington. “I think what’s big about this team is that even though I lost my match against Michigan and Jithmie (Jayawickrema) didn’t play against Duke, we were so happy,” she said.Hureau said she cried after she lost her singles match against No. 20 Emina Bektas of Michigan because she thought she had let the team down. “But after that we won and it was just such a great feeling,” Hureau said. “Especially Duke, it was the end of spring break and we had been together for a week and it was just perfect, the perfect ending. We came back home on the plane and we were going crazy.”Hureau said even though her teammates have changed over the course of her four years at IU, it will be really hard to graduate this spring because she said her best friends are on IU’s campus and on the women’s tennis team. “We see each other every day, we go through so much together and we’re really close,” Hureau said. “It’s sounds cheesy and everyone says it but it’s true. We live together and when we don’t play tennis, we hang out together so it’s going to be hard to leave.”She said she loves the atmosphere of IU and experiencing the success of the IU men’s basketball team this season. “It was really fun to watch because you really feel like you’re a part of something in the community,” Hureau said. “That was really neat because I didn’t have anything like that before.”While the marketing major in the Kelley School of Business has many accomplishments on which to reflect, she still has her sights set on the future. No. 34 IU has two remaining dual matches, the team will play host to the Big Ten Tournament at the end of April, and then the Hoosiers hope to advance to the NCAA Championships. “It has an extra motivation for me since it’s my senior year and it’s at home,” Hureau said. “This year we’ve been playing well so we have a good shot at it and I think now we know that on a given day we can beat anyone in the conference. That’s something that we didn’t really know before and we didn’t believe in it but know we know that.” If IU being host to the Big Ten Tournament in her final season in Bloomington isn’t enough of storybook ending for Hureau, then having her parents fly from France to attend the tournament should do the trick. “It’s just a lot of things to look forward to,” she said.When the season, which she hopes ends at the NCAA Championships in Champaign, Ill., is all said and done, Hureau will prepare for the next stage of her life — attending graduate school for sports management in France. “It’s exciting,” she said. “It’s kind of bittersweet though because I’m not ready to leave.”When the Hoosiers’ season ends and Hureau leaves upon graduation, she will have won nearly 200 collegiate tennis matches after taking the risk of going to college over 4,000 miles away from home, in a country where she was forced to immerse herself in the English language. Hureau made the most of her opportunity and triumphed with glory, winning All-Big Ten First Team, ITA Ohio Valley Region Rookie of the Year, and All-American honors. And the best part for Hureau is that there are a few empty pages for her to add to her final chapter at IU before the book of her college career finally closes.
(04/12/13 3:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 34 IU women’s tennis team (15-6, 4-3) will play Minnesota 11 a.m. Saturday and Wisconsin at 11 a.m. Sunday at the IU Tennis Center. The Hoosiers will play at home for the next three dual matches after playing on the road the past two weekends.IU Coach Lin Loring said the team is “nicked up” after traveling to Michigan State, Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska in the span of nine days. “We gave them two days off when we got back to try to get a little bit healthy,” Loring said. “We’re just trying to get everybody’s legs back.”Senior Leslie Hureau joked that she could use another four days off to recover.Loring said this weekend’s matches should be different because IU will play on consecutive days. “Last weekend we had a day off in between but we had to travel in between so it’s not like it was a rest,” he said. “Hopefully with a little break we might get to play some outdoor matches. Hopefully we’ll be pretty healthy.”Minnesota (9-10, 3-4) is tied for sixth in the Big Ten. The Golden Gophers started the season ranked No. 41 but started the spring with a 2-6 record. Then they rattled off six consecutive wins but have since lost four of their past five dual matches.Minnesota’s only conference wins are against teams tied for sixth place or worse. The Golden Gophers defeated Penn State (T-6th), Wisconsin (10th), Michigan State (12th). They lost to Michigan and Ohio State, who IU defeated 5-2. Minnesota’s best win of the season was a 4-3 upset against No. 33 Penn State on April 5. Similarly to the Hoosiers, the Golden Gophers have only two seniors, which means underclassmen play a significant role on the team. Their typical singles order includes, two freshmen, two sophomores, one junior and one senior. The Wisconsin Badgers (4-14, 2-5) are tenth in the conference and have not won consecutive dual matches this season. However, the Badgers are showing signs of improvement after their 1-10 start. Wisconsin has won three of its past seven matches, including a 5-2 victory against No. 52 Ohio State on April 5. Last year, IU lost to Minnesota 7-0 and Wisconsin 5-2 on the road in the regular season. However, IU won the previous eight dual matches against the Golden Gophers and 10 of the team’s past 11 matches against the Badgers. IU’s home court advantage will favor the Hoosiers this weekend. IU is 8-2 at home while Minnesota and Wisconsin are a combined 0-12 on the road this season. “Both teams are a little scary in that they can play good tennis on a given day,” Loring said. “We’re ranked ahead of both of them but they’ve both shown that they can play really good tennis. We just really have to be ready for both of them.”
(04/08/13 2:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 32 IU women’s tennis team split its Big Ten matches against Iowa and No. 13 Nebraska (18-3, 7-0) during the weekend. The Hoosiers defeated the Hawkeyes 6-1 Friday evening and suffered a 5-2 loss to the Cornhuskers on Sunday.IU Coach Lin Loring said defeating Iowa was a great road win for IU because the Hawkeyes are tough to play at home. “They had match points on Notre Dame when the Irish were No. 19 in the country,” he said.The No. 34 doubles team of Ruth Seaborne and Morven McCulloch bested sophomore Carolyn Chupa and senior Leslie Hureau 8-4. IU won the No. 2 and No. 3 matches to earn the doubles point. Sophomores Shannon Murdy and Alecia Kauss topped Christina Harazin and Katie Zordani 8-1 in the No. 2 match. Sophomore Katie Klyczek and junior Sophie Garre defeated Annette Dohanics and Caitlin Hindmarsh 8-4. The Hoosiers controlled the singles matches by winning five of the six matches. In the No. 1 position, No. 111 Leslie Hureau bested No. 85 Seaborne 6-3, 6-2. No. 112 Katie Klyczek topped Shelby Talcott 7-6, 6-4 in the No. 2 singles match. Chupa, Kauss and Garre won their matches in consecutive sets in the No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 matches, respectively. Iowa’s lone singles win was in the No. 6 match, when Hindmarsh defeated Murdy 6-4, 6-4. “We struggled the first half hour of the doubles,” Loring said. “No. 3 came back from 3-0 down to win the doubles point for us. Then we won some very close first sets in singles and never let them back in the match.” Nebraska won the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches. The No. 3 match was not finished. The No. 11 doubles team of Mary Weatherholt and Patricia Veresova defeated Hureau and Chupa 8-0 in the No. 1 match. In the No. 2 position, Stefanie Weinstein and Janine Weinreich topped Kauss and Murdy 8-6. Nebraska then jumped out to a 5-0 lead by winning the first four singles matches. Weinstein bested Chupa 6-4, 6-2 in the No. 3 spot. Veresova topped No. 112 Klyczek 6-2, 6-2 and No. 13 Weatherholt secured the victory for the Cornhuskers when she defeated No. 111 Hureau 7-5, 6-0. Weinreich earned Nebraska’s fifth and final point when she bested Kauss 7-6 (7-3), 6-4. Garre and senior Jithmie Jayawickrema won the No. 5 and No. 6 matches, respectively, in consecutive sets to bring the final score to 5-2. With the victory against IU, Nebraska kept its perfect Big Ten record alive to stay atop the standings. After last weekend’s matches, IU is 15-6 overall this season and 4-3 in the conference. The Hoosiers will play Minnesota next Saturday and Wisconsin on Sunday at the IU Tennis Center.
(04/05/13 4:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Riding a three-match win streak, which includes a victory against No. 10 Michigan, the No. 32 IU women’s tennis team (14-5, 3-2) will play on the road for the second weekend in a row. The Hoosiers will face Iowa at 4:30 p.m. Friday and No. 13 Nebraska at noon Sunday. IU has cut back on practice leading up to this weekend’s matches due to the team’s two long road trips in consecutive weeks. “We got back at about 11 o’clock last Sunday night, and we’ll probably get back around midnight or one o’clock this Sunday night, so it’s just important for us to rest our legs,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “This is not an easy road trip because of (matches on) Friday and Sunday and driving six hours between the two sites. We just have to make sure that we’re fresh and ready to go.”Loring said the bad part about IU’s schedule is that the team plays Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern and Purdue - all of whom are ranked in the top 25 - on the road this season. He said the Hoosiers have to make the most of their opportunities. IU is in fifth place in the Big Ten after its pair of victories last weekend improved the team’s conference record to 3-2. Senior Leslie Hureau is ranked No. 111 in singles, and her teammate, sophomore Katie Klyczek, is ranked No. 112. Iowa (8-8, 1-4) is tied for 10th in the conference. While the Hawkeyes have a .500 record through March, all of their losses have been against ranked opponents. The Hawkeyes’ lone conference win was against No. 37 Illinois. Iowa junior Ruth Seaborne is ranked No. 85 in singles. Seaborne and Morven McCulloch are the No. 34 doubles tandem. In the past decade, Iowa has a 7-5 advantage in dual matches against IU. “The only thing that we’re concerned about at Iowa is that we really haven’t played in an outdoor match in strong wind,” Loring said. “It can get pretty windy there.”Nebraska (16-3, 5-0) is first in the Big Ten. If the weather permits, the match will be played outdoors.IU is 2-0 in outdoor matches this season. The Hoosiers defeated No. 2 Duke 4-2 and Michigan State 7-0 in those dual matches. “They do play in a bubble, so if we play indoors we’ll have to get used to the bubble,” Loring said.Nebraska has bested 10 ranked opponents this season, including wins against five teams ranked in the top 25. Senior Mary Weatherholt is ranked No. 13 in singles. She will leave Nebraska as the winningest women’s tennis player in school history. The doubles combination of Weatherholt and Patricia Veresova is No. 11 in the country. IU and Nebraska have only faced each other once as conference foes. The Cornhuskers won that dual match 5-2 last spring. “The bad thing for us this year is that we play every top-ranked team in the conference on the road,” he said. “We just have to give it our best shot.”
(04/01/13 2:21am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The No. 40 IU women’s tennis team earned its second and third consecutive Big Ten victories last weekend during its road trip to the Great Lakes State. The Hoosiers notched their eighth 7-0 victory of the season in East Lansing, Mich., against Michigan State on Saturday and followed it up with a 5-2 win against No. 10 Michigan on Sunday. The Hoosiers won the doubles point against Michigan State by winning the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches. Sophomore Carolyn Chupa and senior Leslie Hureau defeated Marina Bohrer/Catherine Parenteau 8-1 in the No. 1 match. Sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy topped Nicole Herzog/Michaela Silesova 9-8 in the No. 2 position. IU swept the singles matches and won five of them in consecutive sets. No. 111 Hureau bested Bohrer 6-3, 7-5 in the No. 1 match. No. 112 Katie Klyczek, a sophomore who won the Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week earlier in March, defeated Parenteau 6-4, 6-1.“We still had trouble closing out both singles and doubles matches that we were leading,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “On the positive side, we got to play an outdoor match, and we got a win in a match we had to have.” After IU’s match at Michigan State, the Hoosiers traveled to Ann Arbor, Mich., for Sunday’s dual match against the No. 10 Wolverines. The Wolverines had won eight consecutive matches entering Sunday, including victories against No. 14 Texa sand No. 2 Duke. Michigan’s No. 2 doubles tandem of Emina Bektas/Brook Bolender defeated Hureau/Chupa 8-1 in the No. 1 match. However, IU fought back to win the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches to earn the doubles point. Garre/Klyczek topped Mimi Nguyen/Kristen Dodge 8-2 in the No. 3 spot and Kauss/Murdy gave IU a 1-0 lead when they bested No. 49 Ronit Yurovsky/Sarah Lee 8-4 in the No. 2 match.The Wolverines tied the match when No. 20 Bektas defeated No. 111 Hureau 6-1, 6-4 and then took a 2-1 lead when Amy Zhu bested senior Jithmie Jayawickrema 6-3, 6-2. IU finished the match strongly by winning the final four singles matches, three of which were won in three sets and two of which were against ranked opponents. In the No. 2 match, No. 112 Klyczek bested No. 39 Yurovsky 6-4, 1-6, 7-5. Chupa topped No. 76 Lee 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (4) in the No. 3 spot. IU will continue Big Ten play next weekend with a pair of road matches against No. 69 Iowa and No. 12 Nebraska.
(03/29/13 5:02am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Fresh off its first Big Ten win against then-No. 53 Ohio State, the No. 40 IU women’s tennis team will face Michigan State and No. 10 Michigan on the road this weekend. The Hoosiers will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to play against the Spartans on Saturday followed by a dual match in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sunday against the Wolverines. Both dual matches will start at 11 a.m.The Hoosiers (12-5, 1-2) are tied for sixth place in the Big Ten. This week, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranked two Hoosiers in the top-125 singles players in the country. Senior Leslie Hureau reappeared in the rankings at No. 111 after cracking the top 50 last fall. Sophomore Katie Klyczek made her Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings debut at No. 112. While Hureau and junior Sophie Garre did not play together in doubles last weekend, they are the No. 61 tandem in the nation, according to the ITA.IU Coach Lin Loring said IU changed all of its doubles combinations last season in the week before the Big Ten Tournament, and he said the team wanted to start earlier this year. “We just felt like we needed to experiment and try some (doubles combinations),” he said. “We just can’t be afraid to experiment with our doubles because our singles has been so much better than our doubles this year. With the exception of Tennessee, we’ve pretty much split singles with everybody.”Loring said the Hoosiers’ doubles combinations Friday against Penn State may have cost IU the match after a 4-3 defeat, but he said Sunday’s doubles tandems may have won the match against Ohio State. Michigan State (10-8, 0-3) is tied for 11th in the Big Ten. The DePaul Blue Demons are the only common opponent between the Spartans and the Hoosiers. DePaul defeated Michigan State 6-1 and IU knocked DePaul off 4-3. The Spartans are on a five-match losing streak and have scored only six points over that stretch.“Michigan State is one of the weaker programs in the conference, but it’s really hard to play there because their courts are lightning fast,” Loring said. “I don’t think they’ve resurfaced them in 15 years. It’s like playing on a gym floor. Assuming that we’re playing indoors up there, that’s what we have to adjust to is the speed of the courts.”Michigan (12-3, 3-0) is tied atop the conference. The Wolverines have defeated No. 23 Tennessee, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 19 Vanderbilt, No. 24 Texas and No. 7 Duke this season. Michigan has three singles players ranked in the top-80 spots of the ITA rankings. No. 29 Emina Bektas, No. 39 Ronit Yurovsky and No. 76 Sarah Lee lead the Wolverines. Bektas and Brooke Bolender are the No. 2 doubles combination in the country. The duo of Lee and Yurovsky is ranked No. 49. Michigan has collected four Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week honors. Yurovsky has been recognized twice with her teammates Bektas and Lee each earning the award once. “Their courts are very slow, which is fine,” Loring said. “It’s like playing outdoors, and we obviously played well outdoors in Vegas so the speed of the Michigan courts should not be an issue. “The issue will be playing on Saturday on very fast courts and then making a quick adjustment to the slow courts.”
(03/28/13 8:02pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Fresh off its first Big Ten win against then-No. 53 Ohio State, the No. 40 IU women’s tennis team will face Michigan State and No. 10 Michigan on the road this weekend. The Hoosiers will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to play against the Spartans on Saturday followed by a dual match in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sunday against the Wolverines. Both dual matches will start at 11 a.m.The Hoosiers (12-5, 1-2) are tied for sixth place in the Big Ten. This week, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association ranked two Hoosiers in the top-125 singles players in the country. Senior Leslie Hureau reappeared in the rankings at No. 111 after cracking the top 50 last fall. Sophomore Katie Klyczek made her Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings debut at No. 112. While Hureau and junior Sophie Garre did not play together in doubles last weekend, they are the No. 61 tandem in the nation, according to the ITA.IU Coach Lin Loring said IU changed all of its doubles combinations last season in the week before the Big Ten Tournament, and he said the team wanted to start earlier this year. “We just felt like we needed to experiment and try some (doubles combinations),” he said. “We just can’t be afraid to experiment with our doubles because our singles has been so much better than our doubles this year. With the exception of Tennessee, we’ve pretty much split singles with everybody.”Loring said the Hoosiers’ doubles combinations on Friday against Penn State may have cost IU the match after a 4-3 defeat, but he said Sunday’s doubles tandems may have won the match against Ohio State. Michigan State (10-8, 0-3) is tied for 11th in the Big Ten. The DePaul Blue Demons are the only common opponent between the Spartans and the Hoosiers. DePaul defeated Michigan State 6-1 and IU knocked DePaul off 4-3. The Spartans are on a five-match losing streak and have scored only six points over that stretch.“Michigan State is one of the weaker programs in the conference, but it’s really hard to play there because their courts are lightning fast,” Loring said. “I don’t think they’ve resurfaced them in 15 years. It’s like playing on a gym floor. Assuming that we’re playing indoors up there, that’s what we have to adjust to is the speed of the courts.”Michigan (12-3, 3-0) is tied atop the conference. The Wolverines have defeated No. 23 Tennessee, No. 16 Notre Dame, No. 19 Vanderbilt, No. 24 Texas and No. 7 Duke this season. Michigan has three singles players ranked in the top-80 spots of the ITA rankings. No. 29 Emina Bektas, No. 39 Ronit Yurovsky and No. 76 Sarah Lee lead the Wolverines. Bektas and Brooke Bolender are the No. 2 doubles combination in the country. The duo of Lee and Yurovsky is ranked No. 49. Michigan has collected four Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week honors. Yurovsky has been recognized twice with her teammates Bektas and Lee each earning the award once. “Their courts are very slow, which is fine,” Loring said. “It’s like playing outdoors, and we obviously played well outdoors in Vegas so the speed of the Michigan courts should not be an issue. “The issue will be playing on Saturday on very fast courts and then making a quick adjustment to the slow courts.”
(03/25/13 4:24am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Coming off the heels of its win against No. 2 Duke, the No. 38 IU women’s tennis team continued Big Ten action by playing host to No. 37 Penn State and No. 53 Ohio State during the weekend. The Hoosiers lost to the Nittany Lions by a 4-3 margin on Friday, but defeated the Buckeyes 5-2 on Sunday.In Friday evening’s match against Penn State, IU tested three new doubles tandems, and it paid off in the No. 3 doubles match. Sophomores Shannon Murdy and Carolyn Chupa defeated Sarah Henderson and Jacqueline Zuhse 8-1. “We’ve been losing the doubles point for the last few matches, so I think the coaches wanted to switch up the teams to see if we could get ahead and get the doubles point,” Chupa said. “We switched it on Friday and then we switched it again today because it didn’t really work out on Friday.”In the No. 1 match, No. 57 Petra Januskova and Chelsea Utting topped IU seniors Leslie Hureau and Jithmie Jayawickrema 8-4. Penn State took a 1-0 lead by winning the No. 2 doubles match. The Hoosiers tied the match when sophomore Alecia Kauss bested Devan McCluskey 6-0, 6-2 in the No. 4 singles match. Penn State responded in the No. 2 spot when Utting topped sophomore Katie Klyczek 6-4, 6-4.IU won the No. 3 and No. 5 singles matches in consecutive sets to take a 3-2 advantage. Penn State’s Marie-Frederique Bedard took the No. 6 singles match from Murdy with a 7-6, 6-2 victory. With the dual match tied at three points apiece, the No. 1 singles match was the deciding factor to break the tie. Hureau won the first set 7-6 but No. 41 Januskova came from behind to win the next two 6-4 and 7-6 (7-5) in a tiebreaker.It was IU’s fourth 4-3 loss of the season.“It’s the doubles point (that is the key to winning 4-3 matches) because basically all of the matches that we lost 4-3, we lost the doubles point,” junior Sophie Garre said. IU jumped out to a 1-0 lead against Ohio State by winning the doubles point. “Today it really helped because we’re up 4-0 but all of the matches that are still going on are really close,” Garre said after the Hoosiers had secured the win by winning the first four points of the match. “We are really happy that we won the doubles point.”In the No. 1 match, Hureau and Chupa defeated Kelsey Dieters and Grâinne O’Neill 8-4 when O’Neill couldn’t handle Chupa’s return in the final point.Minutes later, Kauss and Murdy topped Kara Cecil and Noelle Malley 8-4 after Malley double faulted in the final game. In the No. 3 doubles match, Fidan Manashirova and Gabby Steele bested Garre and Klyczek 9-8 (6-4), but it was too little, too late for the Buckeyes as the Hoosiers were in control of the match from the start.Chupa kept IU rolling by quickly defeating Cecil 6-0, 6-2 in the No. 3 singles match. “I think after winning the doubles point we had a lot of energy going into singles, so that definitely carried us through the first sets of the match,” she said. Garre gave IU a 3-0 lead when her serve proved too much for O’Neill in a straight-sets win at the No. 5 position.Klyczek and Jayawickrema won the No. 2 and No. 6 singles matches, respectively, to increase IU’s lead to five points. Ohio State won the No. 1 and No. 4 singles matches in consecutive sets to bring IU’s final margin of victory to 5-2. It was IU’s first win in the Big Ten and the Hoosiers’ third victory against a ranked opponent.“It feels pretty good,” Garre said.“We feel a little relieved,” Chupa said.IU is now 12-5 (1-2) and the Hoosiers are tied for sixth in the Big Ten.“We were confident in the way we were playing in the past few matches and when we beat Duke,” Garre said. “We’ve been playing well in singles so we feel pretty confident in the way that we’re playing right now.”
(03/22/13 12:56am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After defeating No. 2 Duke 4-2 on March 15, the No. 38 IU women’s tennis team will look to continue its success against No. 37 Penn State and No. 53 Ohio State this weekend. The Hoosiers will face the Nittany Lions at 5 p.m. Friday at the IU Tennis Center and the Buckeyes at 11 a.m. Sunday. “I’ve never been in a situation before where we lost the doubles point and lost the first set on every court and then came back and won the second set on every court,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “I’m not sure why we’re able to win five second sets when we lost five first sets. If I can figure it out, I’ll bottle it and sell it.”IU is 11-4 this season and lost its only Big Ten dual match to Purdue. The Hoosiers have the No. 52 doubles tandem of senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre.Penn State is 10-1, with wins against No. 49 VCU and No. 61 College of Charleston. Penn State suffered a 5-2 defeat March 3 at Ohio State. Penn State and IU’s two common opponents this season were Kentucky and Marshall. Both teams topped the Thundering Herd 6-1. Penn State bested Kentucky 4-3 while the Hoosiers fell to the Wildcats by the same margin. Penn State has the No. 41 singles player in Petra Januskova, who has been named the Penn State Student-Athlete of the Week twice this academic year, and the No. 57 doubles combination of Januskova and Chelsea Utting.IU and Penn State participated in the Western Michigan University Super Challenge last November. The Nittany Lions won two of the three singles matches against the Hoosiers, but IU won both of its doubles matches against Penn State.The Hoosiers enter Friday’s match with a 10-match win streak against the Nittany Lions. The Buckeyes are 8-6 (1-1), and they have a dual match against the No. 21 Boilermakers on Friday before they travel to Bloomington. Both Ohio State and IU have faced Cincinnati, Kentucky and Tennessee. IU and OSU defeated Cincinnati 7-0. Both teams suffered losses to the Wildcats and Volunteers. Ohio State freshman Kelsey Dieters is ranked No. 53 in singles.IU is 6-5 against Ohio State for the past decade, but the Buckeyes have won four of the past five dual matches against the Hoosiers. In last year’s Big Ten Women’s Tennis Tournament, Ohio State defeated Penn State 4-2, but then Northwestern knocked off Ohio State in the quarterfinals. Loring said Penn State and Ohio State are very good. He said Penn State plays better indoors, which is where he said he expects the match to be played. Loring said this weekend’s matches will be very competitive and will likely be decided by 4-3 margins. “We’ve been playing well, and maybe this (win against Duke) will give us just a little extra confidence that we need, but we really haven’t played badly all year,” Loring said.
(03/18/13 3:01pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Entering Friday’s match against No. 2 Duke, IU women’s tennis was 0-11 against the Blue Devils since 2000. In Las Vegas, the No. 60 Hoosiers earned their first win of the season against an opponent ranked in the top 50 by defeating Duke 4-2.Duke had only five healthy players available for the dual match, which allowed IU to win the No. 3 doubles match and No. 6 singles match by default. The Blue Devils needed to win both the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches to win the doubles point.Annie Mulholland and Marianne Jodoin defeated IU sophomores Alecia Kauss and Shannon Murdy 8-4 in the No. 2 match. Duke took a 1-0 match lead when the No. 35 pair of Hanna Mar and Ester Goldfeld topped IU’s No. 52 tandem of senior Leslie Hureau and junior Sophie Garre 8-6 in the No. 1 spot.With the Blue Devils unable to fill the No. 6 singles position, the Hoosiers tied the match at one.All five singles matches went to three sets — Duke won every first set and IU responded by winning each second set.“The highlight of the match has to be that after losing the first set in every singles match, we came back and won every second set,” IU Coach Lin Loring said.IU defeated ranked opponents in the first two singles matches to finish. Hureau bested No. 35 Goldfeld 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 in the No. 1 match. In the No. 3 spot, sophomore Carolyn Chupa defeated No. 88 Mary Clayton to give the Hoosiers a 3-1 lead.Duke earned its only singles point when No. 84 Jodoin defeated Garre 6-3, 5-7, 6-0 in the No. 5 match to bring the Blue Devils within one point of IU.The Hoosiers clinched the match when sophomore Katie Klyczek beat No. 16 Mar 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 at the No. 2 position.The No. 4 match between Kauss and Mulholland was not finished.“We have been close to beating top-20 teams all year,” Loring said. “We have kept telling the girls that we are a good team and just keep believing. You could feel the momentum changing. This was a huge win for our program.”With the victory, the Hoosiers improved to 11-4 on the season. They will next face Penn State 5 p.m. Friday at home and Ohio State 11 a.m. Sunday.