Princeton's 2023 Women's Tennis Recruiting Class Ranked No. 3 in Nation

TennisRecruiting.net has come out with its spring class rankings, and Princeton's incoming freshmen were ranked No. 3 in the nation, behind only South Carolina and UCLA.

Winner of five of the last six Ivy League championships, including back-to-back, Princeton won its second NCAA tournament match this year, beating No. 27 Northwestern in Seattle and finishing ranked 33rd in the nation by the ITA, the program's best season-ending ranking since standing 20th in 1982.

Princeton has consistently ranked in the top 25 in TennisRecruiting.net's class rankings, doing so in 13 of the 14 years the site has published the rankings. The No. 3 ranking is the second-highest ranking in that span, after a No. 1 ranking in 2008.

The rankings also show the strength of the Ivy League, which has four teams in the top 25 with Yale at No. 5, Harvard at No. 20 and Dartmouth at No. 25. The Ivy is the only league with two teams in the top five, and while the Big Ten has five teams in the top 25, the Ivy is tied for second with the Big 12 and the ACC, and ahead of the SEC and Pac-12, which have three each. That gives the Ivy the largest percentage of its teams ranked, at half, of any league.

The class includes:

• Daria Frayman, from Russia, has been ranked as high as No. 32 in the ITF world junior rankings, just competed in the French Open juniors tournament in singles and doubles and, earlier, made the semifinals of the junior Australian Open in doubles.

• Zoe Howard, a blue-chip recruit from Chevy Chase, Md., who is ranked No. 10 in the nation in her class.

• Michelle Sorokko, a five-star recruit from Douglaston, N.Y., who is ranked No. 36 in the nation in her class.

• Maia Sung, a five-star recruit from Rolling Hills, Calif., who is ranked No. 23 in the nation in her class.

• Jayme Leschly, a three-star recruit from Weston, Mass., who is ranked as the No. 4 player in Massachusetts and whose father, Nick, is a 1994 Princeton tennis alum.

From the team's lineup in its second-round NCAA matchup at Washington, Princeton graduates Nicole Kalhorn, who played first doubles and fifth singles, and is able to return the rest of that lineup, including 2019 All-Ivy League honorees Brianna Shvets, a first-teamer in singles and doubles, Grace Joyce, a second-team singles honoree, and Stephanie Schrage, also a second-team singles honoree, as well as coach Laura Granville, who has won four of the five Ivy League Coach of the Year honors awarded.

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