Last weekend, five Whitman tennis players flew out to Mobile, Ala., to participate in the USA/ITA National Championships. Whitman has had great success in the small-college division of the tournament over the years, and the players they sent last weekend were no exception.
Over the past weekend the Whitman women's tennis team was hard at work at the USTA/ ITA Fall Regional Tournament, their first major tournament of the season. The stakes at this competition are high, as every participant competes for the few available positions in the USTA/ITA Fall National tournament in Mobile, Alabama, and All-American recognition.
For some athletes, the end of classes does not necessarily mean the end of their athletic season. This year, women's varsity golf and both women's and men's varsity tennis teams will be competing at national tournaments during and after finals week at Whitman.
Whitman tennis pulled off an NWC championship tournament double this past weekend, as both the men's and women's teams capped off fantastic seasons with conference tournament titles and automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament.
In this week's Sports Blog wrap-up, Whitman baseball closes out its home schedule while the tennis and golf teams wrap up successful spring seasons as they gear up for a weekend of conference championship tournament.
In this week's wrap-up: women's tennis maintains second place, baseball drops its weekend series to first-place Pacific and men's tennis sweeps a pair of matches to come within one victory of its sixth consecutive NWC regular season title.
In only their first year of collegiate tennis, twins Courtney and Morgan Lawless have already established a Texas-sized competitive spirit on the Whitman campus.
This week the Whitman Sports Blog wraps up the athletic events of the past two weeks: while school was on holiday six teams of Whitties were in action, including a pair of men's swimmers representing Whitman at the NCAA DIII National Championships for the first time in school history.
