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Fish named ITA Summer Circuit Player of the Year 8/27/2003 SKILLMAN, N.J. — Vanderbilt freshman tennis player Amanda Fish has been named the 2003 Intercollegiate Tennis Association Summer Circuit Female Player of the Year, the organization announced Wednesday. Fish posted an amazing 19-1 record this summer, winning three singles titles and becoming the first incoming freshman ever to reach the singles final at the ITA National Summer Championships. The Scituate, Mass., native will not play her first match for the Black & Gold until the end of September, but head coach Geoff MacDonald believes that Fish’s illustrious prep career will help the freshman quickly adapt to the college game. “I’m thrilled for Amanda,” MacDonald said. “We identified her as the best available recruit in the country last year and she showed it with her great results this summer. Her summer results helped her gain a lot of experience that should enable her to get off to a fast start in collegiate tennis.” While a senior at Thayer Academy, Fish was the top-ranked player in the New England section of USA Tennis and climbed to No. 14 in the national rankings. Fish won Summer Circuit tournaments in Pennsylvania (Bloomsburg University), the District of Columbia (Georgetown University) and Virginia (the College of William & Mary), before narrowly dropping the final match of the National Summer Championship in a third-set tiebreaker. The ITA Collegiate Summer Circuit, presented by the United States Tennis Association, was played at 20 regional sites throughout the country in July. More than 15,000 men and women have competed in the summer circuit since it began in 1993, and a record 2,005 participants competed in this year’s events. The Commodores travel to Greenville, S.C., for their first action of the 2003-04 school year at the Furman Invitational, Sept. 26-28. |
