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The Emory University women’s tennis team will head to Cleveland, OH this weekend in search of its 23^rd-straight University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship.  The Eagles will enter the tournament as the conference’s top-seeded team.

The Eagles quest for their 23^rd-consecutive conference championship will not be an easy one, as the UAA bracket will feature four teams ranked in the top-15 nationally.  Besides Emory, the University of Chicago is currently ranked third, Carnegie Mellon University is ranked 10^th, and Washington University is ranked 14^th.  However, Emory is 2-0 this season against UAA opponents, having defeated the University of Chicago, 6-3, on February 28^th, and the University of Rochester, 7-2, on March 10^th.

Emory, ranked fourth among all NCAA Division III teams this season, stands at 15-4 this season.  The Eagles are 7-2 in matches held on neutral sites this season, and are 13-2 against Division III opponents this season.  Last season, based on their performance at the UAA Tournament, Emory’s Zahra Dawson, Lorne McManigle and Lindsay Reidenbach earned all-UAA first team honors, while Tshema Nash and Daniela Schechter were named to the second team.

Emory will enter the tournament as the top-seeded team, and will face eighth-seeded New York University in the first round.  Other first-round matchups include second-seeded Chicago against seventh-seeded Case Western Reserve, third-seeded Carnegie Mellon against sixth-seeded Brandeis, and fourth-seeded Washington University against fifth-seeded Rochester.

Emory’s match against NYU is slated for an 8:30 AM start on Friday, April 16^th.  The Violets are 3-7 in 2010, including a 1-1 mark in neutral matches.

Should Emory win, the Eagles will play the winner of the Washington U.-Rochester match on Saturday, April 17^th.  The UAA Championship and third-place matches will be held on Sunday, April 18^th.