Rachel Summers keeps her eye on the ball en route to winning the ITA Regional Championship, held at UMW in late September. (Clint Often)
For the first time in 17 years, UMW women’s tennis sent a player to the ITA Small College National Championships.
Rachel Summers ’20 won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Division III Southeast Regional singles championship in September, becoming the first UMW player to win the bracket since Lea Schon ’01 in 2000.
At the national championship, held in mid-October in Rome, Georgia, Summers finished seventh with a win over Ana Maria Buraya of New York University, 6-2, 6-3.
A native of Arlington, Virginia, Summers is a chemistry major.