2012 Women's Tennis Players of the Week

  • Katy Bergey, Bridgewater, Sophomore, No. 1/2 Singles, No. 1 Doubles
    April 16, 2012
    Bergey, a sophomore from Harrisonburg, Va., stayed red-hot in singles and doubles action to help lead the Bridgewater Eagles women’s tennis team to a perfect 3-0 week on the courts. The sophomore opened the week with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Roanoke’s Corbin Leitch before posting a 6-1, 6-0 triumph on Saturday against Guilford’s Natalie Sutton. On Sunday, Bergey bumped up to number one singles and claimed a 6-1, 6-0 win over Virginia Wesleyan’s Jordan Hill. In doubles action, Bergey also went unbeaten with teammate Katie Gordon at number one doubles. Against Roanoke, the tandem picked up an 8-3 victory before posting an 8-1 win on Saturday against Guilford. Bergey and Gordon closed out the week with an 8-1 win at Virginia Wesleyan.
  • Karen Montoya, Hollins, Junior, No. 1 Singles, No. 1 Doubles
    April 09, 2012
    Montoya, a junior from Delicias, Mexico, picks up her second weekly award after leading Hollins to three victories last week. She was nearly perfect in top flight singles and doubles action. Against Mary Baldwin, Montoya won 6-0, 6-1 in singles play and teamed with sister Patricia Montoya for an 8-1 win in doubles competition. Against Sweet Briar, Karen won 6-0, 6-0 and 8-0 in singles and doubles action against the Vixens. She capped her week with 6-0, 6-1 and 8-4 wins against Southern Virginia. Montoya is now 12-0 in singles play this spring, all but two coming from the No. 1 singles position.
  • Katy Bergey, Bridgewater, Sophomore, No. 2 Singles, No. 1 Doubles
    April 02, 2012
    Bergey, a sophomore from Harrisonburg, Va., led the Bridgewater Eagles women’s tennis team to a 3-0 week on the courts by running up a perfect 6-0 combined week with three wins in singles and doubles action. Bergey opened the week with a 6-0, 6-0 win at number two against Lynchburg before rolling to a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Randolph. The sophomore rounded out the week with a 6-0, 6-0 victory on Saturday at Emory & Henry. With doubles teammate Katie Gordon at number one, Bergey picked up an 8-4 victory against the Hornets before rolling to back-to-back 8-1 wins on Friday and Saturday against Randolph and Emory & Henry, respectively. Bergey has now won five straight matches in singles play and three in a row in doubles.
  • Patricia Kirkland, Washington and Lee, Freshman, No. 4/6 Singles, No. 2/3 Doubles
    March 27, 2012
    Kirkland, a freshman from Charleston, S.C., was nearly unscathed against some of the best competition in the country at the Fab Five Tournament this past week. Against top-ranked Williams, she won her No. 6 singles contest 2-6, 7-5, 10-4 before falling 6-8 in No. 2 doubles. Against seventh-ranked Tufts, Kirkland helped the Generals to a team-win with a 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 victory at No. 4 singles. She went on to post an 8-5 triumph at No. 3 doubles. In the Generals' final match against fourth-ranked Emory, Kirkland won at No. 3 doubles 8-3, but her singles match went unfinished in the shortened affair.
  • Katy Bergey, Bridgewater, Sophomore, No. 2 Singles, No. 1 Doubles
    March 19, 2012
    Bergey, a sophomore from Harrisonburg, Va., led the Bridgewater Eagles women’s tennis team to a 2-0 week on the courts including a big conference victory over Hollins. Bergey opened the week with a 6-1, 6-0 victory at her number two singles post against R-MC’s Morgan Parks before knocking off Hollins’ Victoria Coffee by a 6-2, 6-4 tally to move to 2-0 in singles play on the week. With doubles teammate Katie Gordon, Bergey picked up an easy 8-0 win in top flight doubles action against the Yellow Jackets before the duo dropped a tight 8-6 match to the Montoya sisters from Hollins.
  • Karen Montoya, Hollins, Junior, No. 1 Singles, No. 3 Doubles
    March 12, 2012
    Montoya, a junior from Delicias, Mexico, scored the biggest individual win of the season for Hollins. In a match against Washington and Lee, Montoya came back for a 1-6, 6-4, 10-8 win at No. 1 singles over the Generals' Lauren Lukas, the 17th rated player in the region by the ITA. Montoya is now 3-0 in singles play with this marking her first match from the top ladder position this spring.
  • Sonja Meighan, Washington and Lee, Freshman, No. 1 Singles, No. 2 Doubles
    March 05, 2012
    Meighan, a freshman from McLean, Va., posted a 5-1 overall record (3-0 at #1 singles, 2-1 at #2 doubles) over the weekend, helping the Generals win the ITA Indoor National Championships. She dropped her only match of the championships in doubles play against Johns Hopkins in the first round of play. The Generals, ranked #2 in the Atlantic South Region and #8 in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Assocation, faced and defeated #11 Johns Hopkins, #16 DePauw and #13 Carnegie Mellon for the title. Meighan singles wins came over JHU's Elaine Baik (6-1, 6-3), who is ranked #7 in the Atlantic South Region. She also topped DePauw's Kelly Gebert (6-3, 6-3), the Central Region's eighth-ranked singles player, and came back to defeat CMU's Laura Chen (3-6, 6-4, 6-0), who is ranked #18 in the Atlantic South. Meighan is currently rated #2 in the Atlantic South behind Gabrielle Clark from Emory.
  • Patricia Verdezoto, Randolph, Freshman, No. 1 Singles, No. 1 Doubles
    February 27, 2012
    Verdezoto, a freshman from Cuenza, Azuay, Ecuador, won her first four collegiate matches after enrolling at the College for the spring semester. She knocked off her Lynchburg College counterpart at No. 1 singles in straight sets Wednesday, and did the same thing Sunday with an emphatic 6-1, 6-0 win at Averett. In doubles play, she paired with fellow first-year Anna Culpepper to win at both the No. 1 doubles matches they played this week.
  • Allison Hupalo, Washington and Lee, Freshman, No. 1 Singles, No. 2 Doubles
    February 20, 2012
    Hupalo, a freshman from Weston, Mass., started off her first spring campaign in Lexington by winning a pair of matches at No. 1 singles and her lone doubles contest at the second ladder position. Against Division I Radford University, Hupalo scored a 6-0, 6-4 win over her opponent. In the first conference match of the season, Hupalo topped Bridgewater's No. 1 player 6-0, 6-0, and then teamed with Sallie Griffin for an 8-0 win in doubles action.