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Women's Tennis Announces 2023 Schedule

December 10, 2022 | Women's Tennis

NORMAN – University of Oklahoma head women's tennis coachĀ Audra CohenĀ and Vice President and Director of AthleticsĀ Joe CastiglioneĀ announced the 2023 OU women's tennis spring schedule Saturday.

OU's challenging schedule includes 13 matchups with teams that made the 2022 NCAA tournament and will host 14 opponents.

"We have defined our program as one of the best in the nation by embracing challenge," said Cohen. "We are excited for this extremely tough schedule, which includes multiple top-10 teams on the road, prior to a strong Big 12 Conference schedule. We need Sooner Nation to come out and support us as we chase a National Championship."

The Sooners will open the season on Jan. 14 with a double-header against Missouri and Tarleton State before hosting Wyoming on Jan. 17.

The team will then travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., to face Michigan on Jan. 20 and Columbus, Ohio, on Jan. 22 to play Ohio State.

OU will return home to host ITA Kickoff Weekend and face Minnesota on Jan. 28, while Texas Tech and Tulsa square off on the other side of the bracket. The winners of each match with face off on Jan. 29 in hopes for a punched ticket to the ITA National Indoor Championships on Feb. 10-12 in Seattle, Wash.

The squad then heads east for Raleigh, N.C., to face NC State on Feb. 4 for a top-ranked showdown before returning home for three matches against Arizona State (Feb. 11), Arkansas (Feb. 25) and Wichita State (March 5).

Conference play will kickoff against Texas for a 2022 National Championship rematch on March 10 in Austin, Texas. They will then head to Waco, Texas, to face Baylor on March 12.

Big 12 competition takes a pause as the squad hosts SMU on March 15, before getting back into conference action against Texas Tech on March 17 and TCU on March 19 in Norman.

OU will then travel to California to take on Pepperdine in Malibu on March 24 and San Diego on March 25.

The squad closes their home slate against West Virginia on March 31, Iowa State on April 2 and Oklahoma State on April 7.

The Sooners will wrap up conference play on the road with Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan., on April 14 and Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., on April 16.

The 2023 Big 12 Women's Tennis Championships will be held at Kansas, April 20-23.

The Sooners are coming off a national runner-up finish in 2022 and the program's most historic season. The team collected the most wins in program history with 32, eight of them against top-10 teams and 13 over top-25's, reached the ITA National Indoor Championship in the program's first appearance, and claimed OU's first Big 12 Regular Season title.

OU returns graduate students Ivana Corley and Alexandra Pisareva, seniorsĀ Carmen Corley and Layne Sleeth, junior Dana Guzman and sophomore Emma Staker. The team will welcome newcomers Romana Cisovska and Julia Garcia Ruiz.

The Sooners' home competition will be open to the public with free admission.

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