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(01/24/12 3:35am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The women’s tennis team kicked off its 2012 team schedule Sunday by traveling to Durham, N.C., to take on the No. 3 Duke Blue Devils and the UNC Greensboro Spartans.The action started at noon as the team faced off against a talented Duke team. The result of the match was a 6-1 IU loss. The only victorious Hoosier was sophomore Kayla Fujimoto. She defeated the No. 97 singles player in the nation, Annie Mulholland, 5-7, 7-5, 1-0 (10-8).In the other single matches, junior Leslie Hureau was defeated by No. 7 Beatrice Capra 6-3, 6-2. Senior Genya Vertesheva fell to No. 38 Hanna Mar 6-2, 6-2. No. 79 freshman Carolyn Chupa was defeated by Ester Goldfeld 6-2, 3-4 (retired). Freshman Katie Klyczek lost to No. 117 Rachael Kahan 6-1, 6-2. Freshman Alecia Kauss fell to No. 66 Mary Clayton 6-1, 6-1.In doubles matches, the Hoosiers lost all three matches. Fujimoto/Vertesheva fell to Capra/Kahan 8-2. Chupa/Klyczek lost to Clayton/Goldfeld 8-6. Hureau/Kauss were defeated by Mar/Monica Gorny 8-5.“I am pleased with our effort at Duke. We put ourselves in a position to win the doubles point and couldn’t put it away,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “We were up 6-4 at No. 2 and 5-3 at No. 3 with points to go up 6-3. The singles scores were much closer than they appear. “It’s tough to open on the road with half of your roster being freshmen against the No. 3 team in the country, but we played well.”The later match of the day saw the Hoosiers pick up their first team win of the season. They defeated UNC Greensboro 6-1. The day saw freshmen Shannon Murdy, Klyczek and Kauss pick up their first wins of their collegiate careers in team play.Hureau defeated Dilara Yurtkuran 6-3, 6-1. Klyczek won her match against Alex Whitehead 6-1, 6-2. Kauss won a tightly contested match with Lucy Dougherty 6-4, 7-6 (5). Murdy won her match against Annette Rios 6-2, 6-4. Sophomore Sophie Garre was victorious in her match against Stephanie Falcon 6-2, 7-5. Vertesheva’s comeback came up short, causing her to lose her match in tiebreaker fashion against Nitooli Wilkins 1-6, 7-5, 1-0 (11-9).Winning two of the three doubles matches, the Hoosiers secured the doubles point. Chupa/Klyczek beat their opponents Whitehead/Yurtkuran 9-7. Kauss/Hureau were also victorious in their match against Devon Sutherland/Kayla Gammie 8-1. The tandem of Vertesheva/Fujimoto fell to the No. 40 doubles tandem in the nation Wilkins/Dougherty 8-5.“UNC Greensboro was a great match,” Loring said. “We were very tired and had to fight the whole match. We could have easily lost it, but it was a great win on the road.”The Hoosiers continue their season Saturday, Jan. 28, when they play host to Western Michigan and then to Butler.
(01/20/12 3:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The lady Hoosiers will open up team play Sunday in Durham, N.C. The team will kick off the season against Duke University, which is ranked No. 3 in the nation, at noon. Just a few hours later, the team will suit up again to play UNC Greensboro. Play against the Spartans will commence at 5:30 p.m.According to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s rankings, Duke features six of the top 125 singles players in the nation. These players include No. 7 Beatrice Capra, No. 35 Monica Turewicz, No. 38 Hanna Mar, No. 66 Mary Clayton, No. 97 Annie Mulholland and No. 118 Rachel Kahan. The Blue Devils also feature two of the top 60 doubles pairs in the country. These tandems include No. 7 Capra and Ester Goldfeld, and No. 46 Mulholland and Mar.UNC Greensboro features the No. 40 doubles pair in the nation, Nitooli Wilkins and Lucy Dougherty.Comparatively, the Hoosiers’ lone representative in the top 125 players in the country is freshman Carolyn Chupa, who is ranked No. 79 among her peers. IU features no nationally-ranked doubles pairings.With five of the 10 team members this season being freshmen, lone senior Genya Vertesheva said her role has changed from previous years.“I have to be a lot more responsible because I am the team captain and organize everyone. I have to be a role model especially with five freshmen who try to look at you all the time, I have to be ready to help,” Vertesheva said.When going up against one of the top teams in the country for an opening match, Vertesheva said confidence is vital. “I will tell them to be confident. We have a really good team this year,a lot of things have changed, and we practiced hard so I will tell them to be confident,” she said.Looking forward to the rest of the season, Vertesheva said she feels optimistic about the team this year.“I feel really good, even though we have five freshmen,” Vertesheva said. “I compliment all the freshmen for working hard. They did a really good job. All of us are unified, we have good team chemistry.”With the plethora of players compared to previous years, she said this gives the team more versatility and flexibility, especially when it comes to doubles matches.“We have more doubles combinations, and this will help us a lot. All of us are ready to go and compete this year,” Vertesheva said.
(01/17/12 3:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The women’s tennis team spent the three-day weekend at the IU tennis complex playing host to the IU adidas Winter Invitational. The Hoosiers squared off against Louisville, Marquette and Missouri during the invitational. This event was an chance for the team to shake off the rust for the first time this semester after long winter break. The Hoosiers collected 12 wins Saturday. The winners of the singles draws from day one included freshman Carolyn Chupa, who is the No. 79 player in the nation, junior Leslie Hureau, senior Geniya Vertesheva, freshman Katie Klyczek, freshman Alecia Kauss, freshman Ariel Beckerman and sophomore Kayla Fujimoto. In doubles action, the Vertesheva and Fujimoto pair went 2-0 Saturday. The other victorious double pairings were Chupa and Klyczek, Hureau and Kauss and sophomore Sophie Garre and freshman Shannon Murdy. Two Hoosier pairs picked up doubles titles Sunday. The pairing of Vertesheva and Fujimoto won the Crimson Doubles Draw, going a perfect 3-0. Garre and Murdy took the title in the Red Doubles Draw after winning the tiebreaker of best winning percentage of all games played.In the singles draw, the five Hoosiers to pick up wins were Hureau, Chupa, Vertesheva, Murdy and Klyczek.Day three of the invitational was Martin Luther King Jr. Day and crowned the champions of the singles draws. Klyczek was victorious in her match, winning a marathon tiebreaker 20-18 after splitting the first two sets. Vertesheva won her match in straight sets, going 3-0 for the singles tournament. She did not lose a match in singles or doubles action this weekend. Garre also won her match. After splitting the first two sets, Garre won her tiebreaker 10-8. Kauss lost two games in her final match of the day, winning in straight sets.During the three days of action, the Hoosiers went a combined 27-18 in singles and doubles matches, for a winning mark of 60 percent.“Overall, it was a good weekend for us,” IU Coach Lin Loring said. “Since we had some time off with finals and winter break, we needed to play some matches before we started the dual schedule, so this weekend was exactly what we needed. “As a team, we are pretty sore right now, but we should be fine for next weekend when we open our dual match season,” Loring said.The Hoosiers will kick-off the team schedule Sunday, Jan. 22, with a double-header. The team will play against the No. 3 team in the nation, the Duke Blue Devils, at noon, and then will square off against UNC Greensboro at 5:30 p.m. in Durham, N.C.
(01/13/12 5:03am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU women’s tennis team will take the court for the first time in five weeks to participate in the adidas Winter Invitational from Saturday to Monday in Bloomington. This will be the first time the team competes this semester after finishing the calendar year at the Western Michigan Invitational in early November.IU Coach Lin Loring said the significance of this event “is to get as many matches in as possible, especially not being together as a team for five weeks.”The NCAA rules indicate a team can only have 25 “play days” during a season. Three-day tournaments such as this count as one play day. When team play begins, playing two matches on the same day will count as one play day as well.Loring said invitationals such as this can be perceived as the preseason for the tennis season. These matches will not be reflected in the team’s win-loss record, but the results do matter to a player’s individual ranking in the NCAA.In the invitational, each player is guaranteed seven matches, three of the matches being singles and four being doubles.All the matches will give the Hoosiers experience, especially with half of the team being freshmen.“We open with (No. 3) Duke next week so we really need this week,” Loring said.With this being the last chance to play matches against competition until team play opens up against Duke and UNC Greensboro on Jan. 22, Loring said he expects two of his veterans to step up.“Genya (Vertesheva) and Leslie (Hureau) were All-Big Ten selections last year, so I expect them to be the team leaders this year,” Loring said.Lone senior Vertesheva leads a young team heading into the season. Hureau is the only junior, with sophomores Kayla Fujimoto, Sophie Garre and Diana Kyllmann coming back for their second seasons playing for the Hoosiers.The team has five freshmen on the team this year. Ariel Beckerman, Carolyn Chupa, Alecia Kauss, Katie Klyczek and Shannon Murdy continue their freshman campaigns this weekend.Vertesheva and Hureau will lead the Hoosiers beginning play at 11 a.m. Saturday and continue until the last match, which starts at 4 p.m. On Sunday, the action begins at 10 a.m. and continues until the last match begins at 3 p.m. On the final day of the tournament, the deciding matches for the singles tournament will begin at 9 a.m., and the final matches of the tournament will begin at 10:45 a.m. All matches will be in the IU Tennis Center.The other three competing schools are Louisville, Missouri and Marquette.
(11/09/11 4:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Kiwan Lawson from Columbus, Ohio, was an All-American IU track and field athlete. While running for the cream and crimson, he set personal records and gained national awards. This former long jumper has now made the leap from the track to dominate another of his passions: music. He is now the CEO of Music Legion Group.Lawson said being a former track athlete has helped him in the business world.“Track and field has a different feel to it than other sports,” he said. “It is such an individual sport that has a team outcome. It has a certain bluntness to it. Either you have it or you don’t.”Lawson’s accomplishments on the track are a testament to how he “had it.” He was a Big Ten Champion in both indoor and outdoor long jump and set personal and national records for both events in 2007 and 2008. Like any collegiate athlete, Lawson had to balance his academic life with competing for the Hoosiers. He said he had to endure some stereotypes in the classroom because he was an athlete.“Some people definitely have those stereotypes of ‘Oh, he’s just another dumb jock,’ so I had to prove them wrong,” he said.Lawson defied athlete stereotypes of double majoring in partying and sports by maintaining a focus on his studies. He has advice for athletes who wish to avoid the stereotypes and achieve academically.“Get to class early, sit in front, ask questions and if you’re struggling, tell the teacher,” Lawson said. “You’ll earn the respect from your professor and your peers by doing that.”Lawson attributes his success at Legion Music Group to his attention to balance and integrity.“We do everything from marketing, security, videos, recording studios, web design, artist development, DJ development, anything that involves the music industry,” he said.Lawson rose to the head of this company by age 27. He started as an intern for Legion, but “being at the right place at the right time,” a passion for music and hard work led him to the top.He got started running programs in high school, organizing many hip-hop music events for his school when he was a senior, and he hasn’t stopped working with the genre ever since. This constant work and dedication to his passion for music was evident to those who observed his climb up the corporate ladder. People who know Lawson said it is fitting that he has achieved success so young.“It doesn’t surprise me at all,” said Jeff Huntoon, associate head coach of track and field. “He always conveyed a lot of confidence and was pretty good at talking and working with people.”Despite the success, Lawson is still focused on higher education, and he said he sees the value a degree has in the business world.“I’m still pursuing my law degree,” he said. “Hopefully, I will be able to represent people in the future. Plus, it is always good to have a backup plan. Your company might fail but having a degree never will.”Lawson is currently working on his thesis about the displacement of African Americans by Hurricane Katrina.“New Orleans still needs help,” Lawson said. “Everything has not been restored to what it was yet.”This concept of outward vision isn’t something new for Lawson. He has been involved with community service for some time, even during his early years as a college student. His work on campus began when he approached Eric Love, the director of the Office of Diversity Education at IU, with a fundraiser idea.“It surprised me that someone so young put forth that amount of effort into community service,” Love said.This passion for service translates back to Lawson’s work with Legion. Lawson and his company have been in the hip-hop news lately as his premier client, Rikk Reighn, released his video on one of the biggest hip-hop forums on the Internet, WorldStarHipHop.com.The site has recently gained attention for becoming the rap community’s source for finding and displaying talent. For one day, Rikk Reighn’s video was the main feature on the site, an honor artists such as Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy have all enjoyed.“This is obviously a huge milestone for our company that we are thrilled about,” Lawson said.As of Oct. 19, Rikk Reighn’s “Good and the Bad” video had more than 3.3 million views, and his music can be found on iTunes. Lawson marked this as a huge accomplishment for Legion, which he is working diligently to expand throughout the next few years.
(11/07/11 5:01am)
The Hoosiers participated in the Western Michigan Invitational in
Kalamazoo, Mich. The team finished with five wins in singles play.
(11/04/11 4:18am)
The team travels to Kalamazoo, Mich., to participate in the Western Michigan Invitational taking place Friday through Sunday.