BATON ROUGE– The LSU women’s tennis 2009 recruiting class earned a No. 14 ranking, the Tennis Recruiting Network announced Tuesday.
“We’re really excited about a great class. I think this will be a class that will greatly contribute to our program over the next 4 years,” said head coach Tony Minnis.
Kaitlin Burns of Wilmington, N.C., Keri Frankenberg of Gainesville, Fla., and Ebie Wilson of Mobile, Ala. will compete for the Lady Tigers as freshman in the fall of 2009.
Burns is listed at No. 48 in tennisrecruiting.net’s top-100 players and is also a five-star player. She was voted the 18th-ranked player in the southeast region and the No. 3 player in North Carolina.
Burns has been outstanding in high school by helping her team claim the Class 4A singles title in 2006 and 2007. As a junior, Burns and her doubles partner won the state doubles title for Hoggard High School. She also won the 2006 Girls 16 and Under North Carolina Closed tournament. After her junior season in spring 2008, Burns earned All-America honors from the National High School Tennis All-American Foundation, a distinction given only to 40 girls across the nation.
Frankenberger is also a top-100 recruit by tennisrecruiting.net as she is ranked No. 68 and is listed as a four-star player. She is also the 28th-ranked player in the southeast region and No. 17 in the state of Florida.
She helped lead Class 5A Gainesville High School to the 2006 team championship, and she captured the state singles and doubles titles that year as well. In 2007 she won the Tallahassee 18 and Under Designated tournament and repeated as state doubles champion for Gainesville. In July Frankenberger swept through the 64-seed ITA Collegiate Summer Circuit hosted by Florida State and defeated current LSU freshman Whitney Wolf to win the championship.
Wilson is ranked No. 47 nationally by tennisrecruiting.net and is listed as a five-star recruit. She is the 17th-ranked player in the southeast region according to tennisrecruiting.net and is the state of Alabama’s top-ranked player.
Last season she was named the 2008 Tennis Player of the Year by Mobile’s Sunrise Rotary Club. Wilson also led her high school, St. Paul’s Episcopal, to an undefeated season and the Class 5A state title, and she served as team captain.