A striking day; UMW women’s tennis team photo essay
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UMW junior Abiela Wang and senior Madison McCarty playing a doubles match. | Violet Ayers, The Weekly Ringer
by ENYA CEA-LAVIN
Sports Editor
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division III Women’s Southeast Regional Championship took place at UMW on Sept. 27 through Sept. 29. Both the indoor and outdoor courts were jam-packed with competitions between 24 teams and 153 individual players.
The tournament consisted of two sets of matches, one for amateur players, the B flights, and one for more advanced players. UMW junior biology major Addison Felts competed in the tournament, making it to the 16th round in the singles bracket, as did freshman Izzy Rotaru. In the B flight, junior biomedical sciences major Abiela Wang and senior business major Madison McCarty made it to the finals in the B3 singles bracket.
The biggest tournament of the season marked the end of the fall 2025 competitive schedule. Inclement weather forced the competition to move indoors on the first day, but the Eagles were not deterred, giving a performance that was worthy of the end of their matches for this semester.
The championships ended with two doubles bracket Johns Hopkins University teams in the finals and Carnegie Mellon University in the singles bracket.
