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Kenna Erickson Season 2025-26

Height
5'10
Class
Junior
Hometown
Austin, Texas
High School
Austin Tennis Academy
Experience
2L

2024 SEC All-Freshman Team
2024 ITA Southern Region Rookie of the Year

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2024-25)
Posted 12 overall singles wins dating back to Fall 2024…Earned six singles wins in conference play in the dual season…Picked up wins on the No. 3, No. 5, and No. 6 courts with a 7-3 mark in the sixth spot…Earned a 6-3, 6-2 result over Mississippi State’s Emma Cohen on March 9 to clinch the 4-2 match victory and LSU’s first-ever 5-0 start in conference play and five consecutive conference victories in a single season since 2004…Registered a 6-2, 6-1 result on March 30 over Missouri’s Sarah Hartel, to clinch the 4-0 match victory for LSU…Captured 16 overall doubles wins…Teamed with Anita Sahdiieva to earn seven overall victories and a 4-1 mark in the dual season…Earned a ranked victory against Vanderbilt on March 28, taking down then-No. 14 Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster, 6-3…Concluded the season with an ITA ranking of No. 74. Earned her second varsity letter at LSU.

FRESHMAN SEASON (2023-24)
Posted a 10-9 singles record and a 10-11 doubles record after joining the program in January … Earned seven wins in doubles playing at the No. 1 spot alongside Anita Sahdiieva, including four against nationally ranked foes … Was the hero in LSU’s 4-1 win over No. 14 South Carolina, clinching LSU’s first Top 25 win in three years by winning 6-3, 7-5 at the No. 6 spot … Was one of two Tigers alongside Anita Sahdiieva to score a singles and/or doubles point in all six of LSU’s SEC wins this season … Became the first LSU Tiger since Eden Richardson in 2018 to earn a spot on the SEC All-Freshman team … Final ranking of No. 67 in the ITA doubles rankings with Sahdiieva … Voted the ITA Southern Region’s Rookie of the Year by the coaches in the region. Earned her first varsity letter at LSU.

HIGH SCHOOL
Blue-chip recruit from Lakeway, Texas … No. 3 recruit from the state of Texas in the Class of 2024 according to tennisrecruiting.net … Decorated junior career, claiming multiple golden balls and ITF junior titles … Claimed a golden ball in singles by winning the 2021 USTA National Indoor Championship and one in doubles after winning the 2022 Easter Bowl alongside doubles partner Ava Rodriguez … Earned bronze balls in singles at the 2021 USTA National Indoor Championship as well as one in doubles at the 2022 National Clay Court Championship … Won the J60 San José doubles title in January, her first doubles title of the year, and followed that up with a doubles title at the J30 Eau Claire alongside Kayla Chung just a month later … Trained at the Austin Tennis Academy, one of the country’s strongest tennis academies.

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