MEET THE 2015-16 HOOSIERS

SeniorSarah McClean

JuniorPaula Gutierrez

JuniorKim Schmider

FreshmanCaitlin Bernard

FreshmanNatalie Whalen

FreshmanDanielle Wolf

Head CoachLin Loring

AssociateHead CoachRamiro Azcui

Senior ManagerTaylor Grayson

GA Athletic Trainer

Kelly Whitney-Babcock

Media RelationsRyan Sheets

Strength CoachDustin Snyder

FreshmanMadison Appel

2015 HOOSIER CLASSICFri.-Sun., September 25-27

Bloomington, Ind. • IU Varsity Tennis Courts • IU Tennis Center

AdministrativeAssistant

Christy DuBois

SophomoreSarah Baron

SophomoreStephanie Smith

Associate ADJeremy Gray

SophomoreSarah Baron

JuniorPaula Gutierrez

SeniorSarah McLean

Junior Kim Schmider

SophomoreStephanie Smith

FreshmanMadison Appel

FreshmanCaitlin Bernard

FreshmanNatalie Whalen

FreshmanDanielle Wolf

CINCINNATI BEARCATS

MARQUETTE GOLDEN EAGLES

TEAM ROSTERS INDIANA HOOSIERS2015-16 INDIANA SCHEDULE

September 24-27 Hoosier Classic Bloomington, Ind. All Day

October 23-25 Vanderbilt Tournament Nashville, Tenn. All Day

November 6-8 Western Michigan Invite Kalamazoo, Mich. All Day

January 16-18 IU WINTER INVITE Bloomington, Ind. All Day 23 MIAMI (OH) Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. 24 WESTERN KENTUCKY Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. BUTLER Bloomington, Ind. 4 p.m. 30 at Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 10 a.m. at Xavier Cincinnati, Ohio 3 p.m.

February 6 WESTERN MICHIGAN Bloomington, Ind. 10 a.m. MOREHEAD STATE Bloomington, Ind. 2:30 p.m. 14 TENNESSEE Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. 20 at Notre Dame South Bend, Ind. 11 a.m. 24 at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. TBA 27 DEPAUL Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. 28 MARQUETTE Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. EASTERN ILLINOIS Bloomington, Ind. 4 p.m.

March 5 OLD DOMINION Bloomington, Ind. 10 a.m. SIUC Bloomington, Ind. 2:30 p.m. 12 IOWA* Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. 19 at Rutgers* Piscataway, N.J. 6 p.m. 26 at Michigan* Ann Arbor, Mich. 12 p.m. 27 at Michigan State* East Lansing, Mich. 12 p.m.

April 2 PURDUE* Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. 8 at Illinois* Champaign, Ill. TBA 10 at Northwestern* Evanston, Ill. 11 a.m. 15 WISCONSIN* Bloomington, Ind. 3 p.m. 17 MINNESOTA* Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m. 22 OHIO STATE* Bloomington, Ind. 3 p.m. 24 PENN STATE* Bloomington, Ind. 11 a.m.

April 28-May 1 Big Ten Tournament East Lansing, Mich. TBA *Indicates Big Ten Conference matches

Name Yr. HometownNatalia Abdalla So. Sao Paulo, BrazilLauren Bellinger Jr. Dublin, OhioAntonella Bramato Fr. Pachuca, MexicoKatya Bure Jr. Springfield, N.J.Harley Hutchison Jr. Joliet, Ill.Ali Miller So. Portsmouth, OhioSamantha Perry So. Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.Kelly Poggensee-Wei Sr. Lake Villa, Ill.Makenzie Stolar So. Morgantown, W.Va.Hannah Wille Sr. St. Louis, Mo.

Head Coach: Eric TothAssistant Coach: Eric West

Name Yr. HometownSilvia Ambrosio Fr. Frankfurt, GermanyLeoni Daems Fr. Leuven, BelgiumErin Gebes Sr. Denver, Colo.Courtney Hebard Fr. Lutz, Fla.Aleeza Kanner Sr. Phoenix, Ariz.Diana Tokar Jr. Kiev, UkrainePaula Tormos Sanchez So. Madrid, Spain

Head Coach: Jody BronsonAssistant Coach: Nick Kavelaris

NEW LOOK HOOSIERS BEGIN FALL SEASON WITH HOOSIER CLASSIC

With the Hoosier Classic starting on Sept. 25-27, the Indiana women’s tennis team starts its season with an uphill battle as head coach Lin Loring attempts to replace four valuable seniors from a year ago.

This season marks Loring’s 39th year as the head coach of the Hoosiers and 43rd overall. His 831 career wins are the most ever by any coach in Division-I women’s tennis history.

He will need to use his experience to maximize the perfor-mance of a team that lost four seniors in Carolyn Chupa, Ale-cia Kauss, Katie Klyczek and Shannon Murdy from a year ago that were pivotal players in the starting lineup all four years of their career.

The team is welcoming four freshmen this year in Madison Appel, Caitlin Bernard, Natalie Whalen and Danielle Wolf. Bernard leads the group by being ranked No. 46 and was a five-star recruit by TennisRecruiting.com for the 2015 class, but she will miss a good portion of this season after undergo-ing an ACL surgery a month ago.

The other three freshmen have been doing well so far and have surprised Loring with how well they are doing and how coachable they are.

After sitting out last season, senior transfer Sarah McLean will be eligible to play this season. She played two years in the SEC. The hope is that McLean’s experience will carry over and even help the other girls.

“She’s very anxious to play college tennis again,” Loring said. “It’s going to take her awhile to get in that frame of mind after sitting out a year unable to play.”

Between McLean and the freshmen, five out of the nine play-ers on the team are new. With a drastically different team, it will take some time to find out who will be the starters.

The fall schedule is the time to figure out how all of the new players will fit within the scheme. Loring will use this to de-termine who the doubles pairings will be for dual matches in the spring. This low-key portion of the schedule is a great op-portunity for the players to prove themselves both in singles and doubles.

Throughout the fall schedule, the team will play in one tour-nament each month. After the Hoosier Classic, the team will participate in the Vanderbilt Tournament in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 23-25. The Hoosiers end their fall schedule in Ka-lamazoo, Mich. to compete in the Western Michigan Tourna-ment on Nov. 6-8.

The IU Winter Invitational is slated to start on Jan. 16-18 and match play will begin on Jan. 23 as the Hoosiers take on Miami (OH).

CLEVELAND STATE VIKINGSName Yr. HometownVictoria Bensimon Jr. Cocoa Beach, Fla.Princess Gbadamosi Jr. Houston, TexasAleksandra Golawska So. Gdansk, PolandMorgan Nix Fr. McKinney, TexasMathilde Orange Sr. Colombes, FranceKaty Quillin Fr. Bay Village, OhioJana Schober So. Thaur, Austria

Head Coach: Brian EtzkinAssociate Head Coach: Frank Polito

WESTERN MICHIGAN BRONCOSName Yr. HometownMeika Ashby Jr. Kalamazoo, Mich.Denise Azcui Fr. Bloomington, Ind.Barbare Eristavi Jr. Tbilisi, GeorgiaKatja Fevralev Fr. GermanyTracy Kuhle Jr. Decatur, Ill.Melina Lyubomirova Fr. BulgariaOlivia Myers So. Belmont, OhioElla Perinovic So. Zagreb, Croatia

Head Coach: Ryan TomlinsonAssistant Coach: Brooke Bolender

HOOSIER CLASSIC SCHEDULEFriday, Sept. 25

10:30 a.m. Singles - Round 1 12 p.m. Singles - Round 1 2 p.m. Doubles - Round 1 3:30 p.m. Doubles - Round 2

Saturday, Sept. 26 10 a.m. Doubles - Round 3 11 a.m. Singles - Round 2 12:45 p.m. Singles - Round 2 3 p.m. Doubles - Round 4

Sunday, Sept. 27 10 a.m. Singles - Round 3 11:30 a.m. Singles - Round 3

All Times Eastern

INDIANA HOOSIERSName Yr. HometownMadison Appel Fr. Locust Valley, N.Y.Sarah Baron So. Orlando, Fla.Caitlin Bernard Fr. Belchertown, Mass.Paula Gutierrez Jr. Alhaurin de la Torre, SpainSarah McLean R-Sr. Miami, Fla.Kim Schmider Jr. Cheshire, EnglandStephanie Smith So. Venetia, Pa.Natalie Whalen Fr. Chicago, Ill.Danielle Wolf Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio

Head Coach: Lin LoringAssociate Head Coach: Ramiro Azcui