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Charlotte
Tennis
1977 First season: 3-7. March 15, 1977, is the first match vs. Davidson at home. April 18 is first win,
8-1, at Queens.
1978 49ers first winning season, 10-9.
1979 49ers finish 5-9 under first year head coach Penny Brawley.
1980 49ers record second winning season in school history with .688 winning percentage.
1981 The unbeaten doubles team of Susan Romeo and Sheila Ernest win the NCAIAW Division II
doubles crown, finishing 16-0.
1982 Top winning percentage ever .788 (14-4). Dawn Maybeck wins the AIAW No. 3 singles championship.
Maybeck teams with Kellie Kayton to win the No. 2 state doubles championship.
1984 Inaugural season in the Sun Belt Conference ends with 8-9 finish.
1985 Siobhan Riley named the Sun Belt Conference Student Athlete of the Year.
1986 49ers finish 15-10 as Emily Taylor and Tina Radonski each record 19 singles victories.
1987 100th win, 9-0 over Appalachian State.
1988 49ers go 16-7 for fourth straight winning season.
1989 Record fifth straight winning season at 12-8.
1990 Three 49ers – Gayle Miller, Melissa Schladweiler and Sharon Smith – win 21 matches. Cari Peterson and Kim Sommer team up to go 22-3 in doubles, then a school
record.
1991 Team sets new win mark with 25, still the record. Farah Khursheed becomes the first 49er to be regionally ranked in Division I (27th in the Southeast). She, along with
Stefanie Lipstadt, set what was then the school single-season record for wins with 24 and were among a group of five 49ers who recorded 22 or more singles victories.
1992 49ers eighth straight winning season. Melissa Schladweiler and Farah Khursheed earn All-Metro honors. Schladweiler receives Metro Medallion for top studentathlete
and is named the NCAA/Hanes Her Way Female Athlete of the Year at Charlotte.
1993 Head coach Penny Brawley records her 200th career victory at Charlotte.
1994 Julie Tootle sets what was then the all-time singles and doubles victory totals with 69 singles wins and 62 doubles wins.
1995 Mandy Saharic moved into then sixth place in career singles victories with 55 and at that time second in team history with 59 doubles victories. The 49ers finish the
season at 9-16 and fifth in the Metro Conference.
1996 Three freshmen lead the way in victories with 16 apiece. Melissa Cooper, Nealy Mathena and Wendy Stephenson led a freshman class that won 59 singles matches.
1997 The 49ers get back to the .500 mark and win their first Conference USA Tournament
match with a 5-3 triumph over Cincinnati. Anna Matchette paces the squad with
15 singles victories.
1998 The 49ers post their first winning season in five years at 14-10. Nealy Mathena and Mary
Beth Quigley lead the team with 14 singles victories each.
1999 Penny Brawley records her 250th career victory at Charlotte. Mathena and Quigley again
lead the team with 14 singles wins.
2000 Penny Brawley's final season as head coach, retiring after 22 years as coach. Five player
finished with double-figure wins.
2001 The team entered the ITA Top 75 rankings for the first time in school history under new
head coach Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods, as it was tied for 59th the week of March 21. Lau
ren Hastings led the team with 12 wins.
2002 Laura Swain was the first Charlotte player to earn All-C-USA, earning third-team honors.
2003 Laura Swain and Lindsay Morris record 20 wins in a season, a first for Charlotte since 1995.
2004 Michaela Quinn's first season as head coach. The team finished sixth in Conference USA,
its highest finish ever. The team's 14 wins were the most since the 1998 season. Kathy
Robey tied what was then the school record with 24 singles wins.
2005 Laura Swain became at that time the program's all-time leader in doubles victories. Kathy
Robey became only the third person in school history to record back-to-back 20 win
seasons. Jennifer Hatch earned first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III
honors.
2006 The 49ers enjoyed their best conference finish ever by reaching the championship match
of the A-10 Tournament. Ashleigh Murray and Ofra Friedman earned All-Atlantic 10 honors,
while Ali Piacente was named to the A-10 academic all-conference team. Six
players finished the season with at least 12 singles wins led by Murray's 22 wins.
2007 Ana Spivakovsky was the A-10 Freshman of the Year, also setting the school mark with 26
singles victories. Kathy Robey's 78 career singles wins sets record. Spivakovsky was first-team
All-Atlantic 10, while Robey and Piacente were second team.
2008 Junior newcomer Yudeshnee Pillay led the squad with 18 singles wins, with Ana
Spivakovsky leading with 18 doubles wins. Both were named first-team All-Atlantic 10, with
junior Koren Fleming earning second-team honors.
2009 Six players eclipse 22 doubles victories, led by sophomore Gabi Vergara's school-record 27
wins. Pillay and Kimber Redfern leap into the top three in single-season singles victories.
Pillay and Fleming won their second straight all-conference awards. Spivakovsky repeated
on the all-conference team and academic all-conference team.
2010 Ana Spivakovsky becomes the program's first four-time all-conference performer, finishing
at the time second all-time with 74 career doubles wins despite a back injury in her
final two seasons.
2011 The first match played at the new Halton-Wagner Complex took place on January 29, with
Charlotte winning 6-1. The 49ers finished with 11 wins and a sixth-place league finish.
Alexandra Zinn earned first-team all-conference, with Andrea Rivera earning second-team
honors.
2012 Freshman Natsuko Takayanagi paced the squad with 23 singles wins, including 17 in dualmatch
play, as one of five Charlotte players with double-digit triumphs. The 49ers won
their first seven matches and 12 of their first 13 to open the campaign.
All-Time Coaching Records
Coach Years Record Pct.
Vivian Avant 1977 3-7 .300
Judy Wilkins (Rose) 1978 10-9 .526
Penny Brawley 1979-2000 267-208 .562
Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods 2001-03 25-41 .379
Michaela (Quinn) Gorman 2004-12 112-85 .569
Total (36 years) 1977-2012 417-350 .544
Year-by-Year Results
Year Head Coach Record Pct. Conference
1977 Vivian Avant 3-7 .300 -
1978 Judy Wilkins (Rose) 10-9 .526 -
1979 Penny Brawley 5-9 .357 -
1980 Penny Brawley 11-5 .688 -
1981 Penny Brawley 15-7 .682 -
1982 Penny Brawley 14-4 .788 -
1983 Penny Brawley 6-7 .462 -
1984 Penny Brawley 8-9 .471 7th of 7
1985 Penny Brawley 9-6 .600 6th of 7
1986 Penny Brawley 15-10 .600 7th of 7
1987 Penny Brawley 18-6 .750 6th of 7
1988 Penny Brawley 16-7 .696 6th of 8
1989 Penny Brawley 12-8 .600 5th of 8
1990 Penny Brawley 22-6 .786 4th of 8
1991 Penny Brawley 25-7 .781 4th of 8
1992 Penny Brawley 11-8 .579 5th of 7
1993 Penny Brawley 13-14 .481 6th of 7
1994 Penny Brawley 9-17 .346 5th of 7
1995 Penny Brawley 9-16 .360 7th of 7
1996 Penny Brawley 5-13 .278 T10th of 11
1997 Penny Brawley 11-11 .500 10th of 12
1998 Penny Brawley 14-10 .583 12th of 12
1999 Penny Brawley 11-12 .478 12th of 12
2000 Penny Brawley 8-16 .333 11th of 12
2001 Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods 8-12 .400 12th of 12
2002 Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods 8-15 .348 13th of 14
2003 Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods 9-14 .391 9th of 14
2004 Michaela Quinn (Gorman) 14-8 .636 6th of 14
2005 Michaela Quinn (Gorman) 14-6 .700 9th of 14
2006 Michaela Quinn (Gorman) 16-5 .762 2nd of 14
2007 Michaela Quinn (Gorman) 12-10 .545 3rd of 14
2008 Michaela Gorman 7-13 .350 5th of 14
2009 Michaela Gorman 16-5 .762 3rd of 14
2010 Michaela Gorman 6-17 .304 3rd of 14
2011 Michaela Gorman 11-15 .423 6th of 14
2012 Michaela Gorman 16-6 .727 T3rd of 14
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