EASTON, Mass. (April 14, 2025) – The Northeast Conference announced the bracket and seeding for the 2025 Women's Tennis Championship Tournament, naming the Stonehill College women's tennis team as the No. 3 seed, its highest seeding since joining the conference in 2022.
Stonehill's seeding comes after being picked seventh in the NEC Coaches Preseason Poll ahead of this season. The Skyhawks finished its 2024-25 regular season with an overall record of 7-9 including a 3-2 record in NEC matches. This is the highest seeding for the Stonehill women's tennis team since it was the third seed in the NE10 tournament in the spring of 2021.
The Skyhawks picked up conference wins over Wagner (5-2), Binghamton (6-1), and LIU (4-3) as well as non-conference wins over Providence (4-3) and Bentley (4-1) this spring. Stonehill will open up NEC Championship play with a first round matchup against the No. 6 seeded Wagner Seahawks.
All three rounds of the NEC tournament will be held at the Mercer County Tennis Center in West Windsor, N.J. with the quarterfinals scheduled for Thursday, April 17 at 12:30 p.m. The semifinals will be the next day at 11:30 a.m. followed by the championship match on Saturday, April 19 at 1 p.m.
The Skyhawks top doubles pairing of junior
Anneliese Beltran (Mexico City, Mexico) and sophomore
Julie Holte (Oslo, Norway) played all of their matches out of the first double court, going 13-2 overall with a 4-1 record in conference play. In singles, Holte is 13-5, playing all of her matches on the No. 1 court, with a perfect 5-0 mark in conference play.
Freshmen
Arya Chabria (Columbus, Ohio) and
Lilah Shallcross (Prospect, Ky.) have gone 8-5 as a doubles tandem from the No. 2 court. In the Skyhawks first matchup against Wagner this season, Stonehill won all three doubles matchups and four of the six singles courts.
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