Ava Sadeghi

  • Award
    Performer
  • Week Of
    9/26/2011
  • Sport
    Women's Tennis
  • School
    Vassar College
  • Year
    Freshman
  • Position
  • Hometown
    Glendale, Calif.
  • High School
    Campbell Hall

After nine matches in a whirlwind three days, freshman Ava Sadeghi of the Vassar College women's tennis team won the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Northeast Regional Championships and became the program's first player to advance to the singles tournament of the ITA Small College Championships in Mobile, Alabama on October 13-16. In just her second event as a Brewer, the No. 5 seeded freshman defeated Skidmore's Nataly Mendoza 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals and University of Rochester's Frances Tseng 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the finals. In the quarterfinals, Sadeghi knocked off the No. 1 seed and reigning champion Karisse Bendijo of TCNJ 6-2, 6-4.