Women’s Tennis Jumps Eight Spots to No. 29

BATON ROUGE — The LSU women’s tennis team climbed to the No. 29 spot in the ITA/Oracle Division I Collegiate Rankings released Wednesday.

With an impressive win over No. 19 South Carolina, the Tigers (8-3; 1-1 SEC) moved up eight spots from No. 37 to re-enter the top 30 for the second time this season.

LSU is one of 11 schools in the deeply competitive SEC to claim a spot in the top 30.

Freshman Jade Lewis jumped 13 spots to No. 39 in the singles rankings, while junior Ryann Foster jumped 12 spots to No. 83.

Lewis picked up her fourth win over a ranked opponent against South Carolina against No. 58 Mia Horvit, improving to 8-0 on the season while Foster defeated her third ranked opponent against South Carolina to improve to 20-5 overall.

Senior Joana Valle Costa is the third ranked member of the women’s tennis team, coming in at No. 116.

Valle Costa is 8-2 this season in both singles and doubles, partnering with Foster to form LSU’s court one pairing listed at No. 42 in the latest doubles rankings.

The Tigers return to action Friday night in Fayetteville to take on the No. 18 Arkansas Razorbacks before heading to Columbia to face the Missouri Tigers Sunday.

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Oracle/ITA Division I Collegiate Rankings Women’s National Team Administered by the ITA March 7, 2017       Rank School 1 University of Florida 2 Ohio State University 3 North Carolina 4 Auburn University 5 Vanderbilt University 6 Texas Tech University 7 Oklahoma State University 8 Georgia Tech 9 University of Michigan 10 Baylor University 11 Pepperdine 12 California 13 University of Georgia 14 Stanford 15 Duke University 16 University of Tennessee 17 Texas A&M University 18 University of Arkansas 19 University of Kansas 20 University of Kentucky 21 University of Southern California 22 TCU 23 University of Mississippi 24 University of South Carolina 25 University of Washington 26 Florida International University (FIU) 27 University of Miami (Florida) 28 UCLA 29 LSU 30 Dartmouth College 31 University of Notre Dame 32 University of Texas at Austin 33 Mississippi State University 34 Wake Forest University 35 North Carolina State 36 Florida State University 37 College of William and Mary 38 University of Maryland, College Park 39 University of Denver 40 Arizona State University 41 Rice University 42 Tulane University 43 SMU 44 University of Tulsa 45 UNLV 46 University of Alabama 47 University of Oklahoma 48 Marshall University 49 Virginia Commonwealth University 50 Virginia Tech