2018-19 Sun Belt Women's Tennis News and Notes:
Standings | Composite Schedule | Stats | Championship

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• South Alabama represented the Sun Belt in the NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship for the first time in four years. The Jaguars made their 12th postseason appearance (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2015 and 2019).
 
• South Alabama (22-5, 8-2 Sun Belt) captured its league-leading 18th Sun Belt Women's Tennis Championship title. The Jaguars have played in the last six championship finals.
 
• Appalachian State (15-6, 9-1) won its first conference championship in program history. The Mountaineers' senior duo of Jeannez Daniel and Rebecca Morse posted the Sun Belt's best doubles record this spring at 10-1 (.909).
 
• Georgia Southern (14-13, 4-6), as the No. 8 seed, advanced to just its second conference championship final in program history. The Eagles made it to the New South Women's Athletic Conference (later the Trans America Athletic Conference, then Atlantic Sun Conference) Tournament final in 1986.
 
• Georgia Southern freshman Luisa Hrda led the Sun Belt in singles dual match wins with a 20-2 (.909) record.
 
• South Alabama senior Patricia Martins was named to the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Women's At-Large Teams, as selected by CoSIDA.
 
• South Alabama senior Alexandria Stiteler received a 2019 Sun Belt Postgraduate Scholarship. Stiteler graduated in May with a Bachelor's degree in biology and has been accepted into the St. John's University Law School in New York. She closed her career with the most dual match wins at No. 1 singles (65) and No. 2 doubles (43) in school history.