Granville Earns Ivy Coach of the Year as Four Tigers Are Named All-Ivy

Another clean sweep through the Ivy League for the Princeton women's tennis team has netted four Tigers All-Ivy honors, and Laura Granville was unanimously selected for her fourth Ivy League Coach of the Year award.

The Ivy Coach of the Year honor has been awarded for just five years, and Granville has claimed all but one of them while guiding the team to five of the last six Ivy League titles. For the first time, Princeton followed up a 7-0 Ivy League season with another one, finishing perfect in the league in both 2018 and 2019.

Already the second-winningest coach in program history, Granville carries a record of 106-49 in to the NCAA tournament, standing behind only 25-year coach Louise Gengler, who won 259 matches from 1980-2004. Her .684 winning percentage is the best for any Princeton coach since the 1970s, and through seven seasons, her record in Ivy League play stands at 40-9.

Princeton's four All-Ivy honors bring the total during Granville's tenure to 23.

Princeton's All-Ivy honorees for 2019 are freshman Brianna Shvets as a first-team singles honoree, Shvets and senior Nicole Kalhorn a unanimous pick as a first-team doubles pair, and freshman Grace Joyce sophomore Stephanie Schrage as second-team singles honorees.

The honors are the first for Shvets and Joyce, while Kalhorn was a second-team doubles honoree in 2017 and Schrage was a second-team singles honoree in 2018.

Shvets went 21-6 overall in singles, 15-4 in dual matches and 5-1 in the Ivy, playing primarily at second singles. With Kalhorn, Shvets went 11-5 overall, 7-4 in dual matches and 5-1 in Ivy play, competing primarily at first doubles.

Joyce carried a team-best 31-5 singles record, going 19-2 in dual matches and a perfect 7-0 in the Ivy, finishing 11-0 at third singles on the dual-match season overall and 6-0 at fourth. Schrage went 16-15 in singles, going 8-8 in duals and all at first singles.

The Tigers will find out their NCAA tournament opponent and destination Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on NCAA.com

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
*Iuliia Bryzgalova, Penn (Fr. – Moscow)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Iuliia Bryzgalova, Penn (Fr. – Moscow)

COACH OF THE YEAR
*Laura Granville, Princeton

FIRST-TEAM ALL-IVY^
Singles
*Iuliia Bryzgalova, Penn (Fr. – Moscow)
Caroline Dunleavy, Yale (So. – Darien, Conn.)
•Jennifer Kerr, Columbia (So. – Carlsbad, Calif.)
Raquel Lyn, Dartmouth (Jr. – Houston)
*Samantha Martinelli, Yale (So. – Denver)
Erica Oosterhout, Harvard (Sr. – Tampa, Fla.)
Brianna Shvets, Princeton (Fr. – Pennington, N.J.)

Doubles
*Natasha Gonzalez (Jr. – Houston)/Erica Oosterhout (Sr. – Tampa, Fla.), Harvard
*Marta Kowalska (Sr. – Krakow, Poland)/Marija Curnic (So. – Split, Croatia), Penn
*Brianna Shvets (Fr. – Pennington, N.J.)/Nicole Kalhorn (Sr. – Colorado Springs, Colo.), Princeton

SECOND-TEAM ALL-IVY
Singles
Akanksha Bhan, Columbia (Fr. – Gujarat, India)
Jenna Friedel, Harvard (Jr. – Mill Valley, Calif.)
Valerie Ho, Cornell (Fr. – Silver Spring, Md.)
Grace Joyce, Princeton (Fr. – Newton, Mass.)
Marta Kowalska, Penn (Sr. – Krakow, Poland)
Stephanie Schrage, Princeton (So. – Millburn, N.J.)

Doubles
Akanksha Bhan (Fr. – Gujarat, India)/Paulina Ferrari (So. – La Jolla, Calif.), Columbia
Iuliia Bryzgalova (Fr. – Moscow)/OJ Singh (Sr. – Bradenton, Fla.), Penn
Samantha Martinelli (So. – Denver)/Jessie Gong (Fr. – Vancouver), Yale

*-unanimous selection
^-first team singles expanded due to ties in the voting

Calendar

Upcoming Events

Recent Results