WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Six fall events, 15 home matches and the Big Ten Tournament at the Schwartz Tennis highlight the 2022-23 schedule for the Purdue women’s tennis team.
Head coach Laura Glitz enters her 16th season at the helm in West Lafayette as the program’s winningest coach and just two wins shy of 200 dual victories in her career.
The Boilermakers return All-Big Ten honoree Csilla Fodor, as well as four returners, including a talented sophomore trio of Carmen Gallardo Guevara, Tara Katarina Milic and Juana Larranaga. Purdue will welcome four newcomers with five-star recruits Kennedy Gibbs and Antonia Pareja, Purdue legacy Ashlie Wilson and NC State graduate transfer Liz Norman.
The fall campaign starts Sept 23-25 at the Hoosier Classic in Bloomington, starting back-to-back-to-back tournament weekends at the Cincinnati Pam Whitehead Invitational (Sept. 30-Oct. 2), ITA All-America Championships in Cary, N.C. (Oct. 1-7) and Vanderbilt June Stewart Invitational (Oct. 7-9).
Purdue will close out the fall with ITA Ohio Valley Regionals at the University of Tennessee (Oct. 20-24) and a return to the FGCU Bonita Bay Classic (Nov. 11-13).
The Boilermakers will start the spring dual campaign with six straight matches at the Schwartz Tennis Center. Purdue will open with a doubleheader against Memphis and Chicago State on Jan. 15, before welcoming Cincinnati (Jan. 21), Ball State (Jan. 22), DePaul (Feb. 3) and Tulsa (Feb. 5) make a trip to West Lafayette.
The first road trip of the year will send the Boilermakers to Aimes, Iowa, to face Iowa State (Feb. 10) and VCU (Feb. 11).
Purdue will return home for five straight matches leading into Big Ten play with tilts against Kentucky (Feb. 17), Toledo (Feb. 25), Butler (Feb. 25), Maryland (March 11) and Rutgers (March 12).
Glitz and the Boilermakers will make their spring break training trip to California with one match against San Diego State on March 17.
Three of the next four matches for the Boilermakers will be on the road for trips to Ohio State (March 24), Iowa (March 31) and Nebraska (April 2) with the lone home match against Illinois (March 26).
The final run of the regular season will feature three home matches and two away from West Lafayette. Purdue will face Michigan (April 8), Michigan State (April 9) and Indiana (April 15) to round out the…
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