BATON ROUGE — The pair of senior Lauren Seaman and sophomore Tiffany Tucker of the LSU women’s tennis team list at No. 60 in the doubles preseason rankings released Tuesday by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
The duo went 12-5 last season and ranked as high as No. 48.
They are one of 10 pairs from the Southeastern Conference ranked in the preseason top 60, including the top-ranked team in the country in Georgia’s Shadisha Robinson and Caroline Basu.
The Lady Tigers did not place any in the singles rankings, but the SEC was well represented there also. The conference had 22 ranked singles players overall, including six in the top 25. The top-ranked player in the country also comes from the SEC in Florida’s Jennifer Magley.
LSU begins its fall season Sept. 23 at the Maryland Invitational in College Park, Md.
ITA Rankings
Preseason Doubles Rankings
September 6, 2005
1. Shadisha Robinson/Caroline Basu, Georgia
2. Catrina Thompson/Christian Thompson, Notre Dame
3. Maja Kovacek/Iva Gersic, New Mexico
4. Olga Borisova/Marianna Yuferova, Virginia Commonwealth
5. Kristi Miller/Alison Silverio, Georgia Tech
6. Alice Barnes/Anne Yelsey, Stanford
7. Gabrielle Duch/Neyssa Etienne, South Florida
8. Jennifer Magley/Diana Srebovic, Florida
9. Kim Coventry/Joelle Schwenk, Kentucky
10. Julie Smekodub/Jenny Kuhn, Tulane
11. Daniela Bercek/Jessi Robinson, Duke
12. Melissa Applebaum/Audrey Banada, Miami (Fla.)
13. Megan Moulton-Levy/Megan Muth, William & Mary
14. Cristelle Grier/Feriel Esseghir, Northwestern
15. Jenny Miccoli/Anastasia Surkova, BYU
16. Sara Anundsen/Jenna Long, North Carolina
17. Ana Cetnik/Nicole Leimbach, TCU
18. Whitney Benik/Nina Suvak, Florida
19. Sarah Batty/Laura McGaffigan, Indiana
20. Taka Bertrand/Amanda Fish, Vanderbilt
21. Ashley Bentley/Robin Stephenson, Alabama
22. Carine Vermeulen/Anca Anastasiu, Southern California
23. Sarah Foster/Anna Lubinsky, Texas A&M
24. Lolita Frangulyan/Boglarka Berecz, Florida
25. Tara Browning/Lakann Wagley, Texas Tech
26. Daniela Covello/Caroline Walter, Baylor
27. Zsuzsanna Fodor/Bojana Bobusic, California
28. Kady Pooler/Roxanne Clark, Arizona State
29. Virginia Tomantis/Ilona Somers, Mississippi
30. Kara Delicata/Nina Yaftali, Michigan
31. Susie Babos/Jessica Shu, California
32. Alex Hirsch/Ashlee Davis, Wake Forest
33. Austin Smith/Megan Fanjoy, North Carolina
34. Kristin Cargill/Jackie Carleton, Duke
35. Kendra Strohm/Marija Milic, Texas
36. Elena Gantcheva/Sharon Marin, UNLV
37. Celia Durkin/Jessica Nguyen, Stanford
38. Caroline Raba/Sylvia Kosakowski, Pepperdine
39. Paula Zabala/Nikkita Fountain, Florida International
40. Melissa Anderson/Elsa O’Riain, Harvard
41. Lucia Sainz/Kathrin Winterhalter, Fresno State
42. Petra Dizdar/Mia Marovic, Texas
43. Lindsey Nelson/Diane Matias, Southern California
44. Meg Racette/Hillary Mintz, Iowa
45 Lauren Jones/Dolly Chang, BYU
46. Stephanie Kusano/Marion Ravelojaona, California
47. Eva Dickes/Bianca Dulgheru, Pepperdine
48. Theresa Logar/Whitney Deason, Stanford
49. Alexis Prousis/Georgia Rose, Northwestern
50. Romana But/Marianne Baker, Maryland
51. Natalie Frazier/Kelly Hyndman, Georgia
52. Laura Gordon/Alex McGoodwin, UCLA
53. Sabrina Cappannolo/Jessica Leitch, Arizona State
54. Dominika Dieskova/Anna Cecilia Olivos, Oregon
55. Dinka Hadzik/Victoria Brymer, Washington
56. Elizabeth Lumpkin/Tracy Lin, UCLA
57. Emma Murphy/Lauren Perl, San Diego
58. Helena Besovic/Kewa Nichols, TCU
59. Daniela Muscolina/Carla Zabelta, Tulsa
60. Brook Buck/Keley Tefft, Notre Dame
60. Amanda Fink/Luana Magnani, Southern California
60. Lauren Seaman/Tiffany Tucker, LSU