SUNY Geneseo: Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation

Women's Tennis

The SUNY Geneseo women's tennis team has been an intercollegiate sport since the fall of 1974. Head coach Jim Chen has posted a record of 65-21 over seven seasons after spending three seasons as an assistant coach.

The program was started by coach Tom Pope, was discontinued due to the SUNY-wide budget cuts of 1980, but was reinstated in the fall of 1994 under coach Jeff Brown. The team has compiled a record of 149-88-1 in its 21 seasons.

In 2008-09, the team highlighted their season with a first-ever trip to the NCAA Division IIII national championships, where they defeated Ohio Northern in the first round before falling to nationally-ranked Denison. The Knights finished the fall dual match season with an undefeated record for the third straight season, 10-0 in 2008, running their consecutive fall dual match win streak to 26. The Knights capped their campaign by winning the SUNYAC tournament with 42 points over second place New Paltz’s 32. Geneseo produced four SUNYAC singles champions and two SUNYAC doubles champions. First years Julia Passik and Melissa Baker each won singles and doubles titles as Passik captured third singles and teamed with junior Erika Pumple to win first doubles, while Baker won at sixth singles and teamed with classmate Lauren Johnson to win at third doubles. Senior Vivian Cheung won second singles and junior Anna Lehet captured fourth singles for the Knights. Cheung, Passik, Lehet, Baker, Pumple and Johnson earned first team All-SUNYAC, while first year Katie Gayvert garnered second team All-SUNYAC after teaming with Cheung as runner-up in second doubles. Prior to the national championships in the spring season, Geneseo posted a 3-4 mark in dual matches, including going 2-1 on their spring break trip to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. For the combined season, Geneseo first year players Passik (33-11), Baker (36-8), Johnson (21-6) and Gayvert (22-5) combined for a 112-30 record in singles and doubles action, while Lehet had a 26-7 mark on the campaign.