Michigan
NCAA Individual Championships
Miller to Return to USTA Campus for NCAA Singles Championship
5/20/2021 11:16:00 AM | Women's Tennis
» Freshman Kari Miller will represent Michigan in the NCAA Singles Championship, marking the 13th straight year U-M will have a singles participant.
» Miller enters the tournament ranked No. 57 in singles.
» Miller is the sixth freshman in program history to qualify for the singles championship and first since Brienne Minor in 2016.
THIS WEEK
Sun-Fri., May 23-28 -- at NCAA Singles Championship (Orlando, Fla.)
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Freshman Kari Miller of the University of Michigan women's tennis team will participate in the NCAA Singles Championship at the USTA National Campus. Miller, ranked No. 57, will head back to Orlando for the action, set for May 23-28. She will face No. 9-16 seed Victoria Flores of Georgia Tech in the first round.
Wolverine Bites
• Michigan will conclude its season this week, sending freshman Kari Miller to the NCAA Singles Championship. She enters the tournament with a No. 57 national ranking. She will face No. 9-16 seed Victoria Flores of Georgia Tech in the first round (Sunday, May 23) at 10 a.m.
• Kari Miller competed at the two top spots in the lineup this season, compiling a 14-4 dual-match record. She went 13-3 at No. 1 and 1-1 at No. 2 en route to earning a unanimous selection to the All-Big Ten team. The Ann Arbor native has a 17-4 overall singles record and enters the tournament on a six-match winning streak.
• Kari Miller is the sixth freshman in program history to qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship. She joins Brienne Minor (2016), Ronit Yurovsky (2013), Emina Betkas (2012), Stephanie Lightvoet (1983) and Marian Kremer (1981) as U-M freshmen to compete at the national event.
• This season marks the 13th straight year that Michigan has had a qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship (with the 2020 edition not being held). U-M has had at least one participant in the singles tournament since 2008, which coincides with the first year of head coach Ronni Bernstein's tenure. Bernstein has seen eight different Wolverines earn 20 berths to the singles tournament during her 14 seasons at U-M.
• Michigan went 19-4 during the 2021 season, highlighted by a 15-1 Big Ten record to win its ninth Big Ten championship since 2010 and 10th in program history. The Wolverines reached the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament after knocking off Rice (4-1) and No. 12 seed LSU (4-3) in Baton Rouge.
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