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CMS Women's Tennis Class of 2020
Posted: Mar 30, 2020

Video Tribute: The CMS Women's Tennis Class of 2020

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Women's Tennis senior class won a national championship in 2018 and had their sights set on ending their careers with a second one, standing at 14-0 and ranked No. 1 in the country when spring sports were suspended, including the program's first-ever ITA Indoor Championship earlier this month.

Their career record in dual matches was a remarkable 99-5, while reaching the NCAA Division III national semifinals all three years. The Athenas finished No. 3 in the country in 2017, No. 1 in the country in 2018 after winning it all, and No. 2 in the country last year after reaching the national championship match for the second year in a row. 

Although it by no means can replace a senior season which was unexpectedly lost, we composed a video tribute to the CMS Women's Tennis Class of 2020. Watch the video below: 



The members of the CMS Women's Tennis Class of 2020 are as follows: 

Catherine Allen (Shoreline, Wash. - Scripps, legal studies)
Allen was on her way to becoming the winningest player in CMS women's tennis history, with 190 career combined singles and doubles wins, 20 shy of the mark held by Caroline Ward. She had a 90-12 career singles record and a 100-15 mark in doubles, and stood at 16-1 in singles this year (with the only loss to teammate Justine Leong at the ITA West Regionals).  In addition to her team national championship in 2018, she also won the NCAA Division III Doubles National Championship with Caroline Cox last season, and had singles wins in the national championship match in each of the last two years, tying the Emory match 4-4 two years ago with a clutch tiebreaker win in the second set.  

Anastasia Bryan-Ajania (San Rafael, Calif. - Scripps, economics)
Bryan-Ajania was 46-9 in her career in singles, as well as 19-5 in doubles. She ended her junior season a year ago with a nine-match winning streak, and played in the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals against Carnegie Mellon with her match ending up unfinished after CMS earned the team clinch. This year, she began the season with a 6-0, 6-0 win at the CMS-PP Fall Scramble on Sept. 20 and ended it with a 6-0, 6-0 win over San Diego Christian. She and teammate Devon Wolfe also reached the semifinals of the ITA West Regionals in doubles before falling to their top-seeded teammates Catherine Allen and Justine Leong.

Juliette Martin (Los Altos, Calif. - Harvey Mudd, engineering)
Martin didn't compete during her senior season, but stayed on board as a team manager. Over her first three seasons, she put together an impressive resume in doubles, compiling a 46-7 record, while also adding a 17-6 record in singles. In the national championship season of 2018, she teamed with former Athena Kyla Scott for an impressive 27-2 doubles record, the winningest doubles record on the team, including an 8-3 win in the national championship match against Emory. She and Scott also had doubles wins over Pomona-Pitzer in the SCIAC Championship and the NCAA West Regional Championship as well.

Madison Shea (Bozeman, Mont. - Claremont McKenna, psychology)
Shea was 88-21 in her four seasons with the Athenas, including a 56-15 mark in doubles. A year ago, her doubles record was 20-3, including a win in the national championship match against Wesleyan while teaming with Sydney Lee, while compiling a 6-1 singles record with the only defeat to Division II UC San Diego. As a sophomore in the national championship season, she had a 12-0 dual record in singles (6-0 in SCIAC matches) and had a 7-5, 7-5 win in a top-10 battle with No. 7 Bowdoin. Shea and Lee also reached the ITA West Region semifinals this fall, before falling to teammates Crystal Juan and Anna Kern. 

Nicole Tan (Singapore - Claremont McKenna, neuroscience)
Tan earned All-America honors five times in her career, three times in doubles and twice in singles, as well as Academic All-America honors after carrying a high GPA in neuroscience. Her career record was 127-43, including a 20-2 record in singles and a 24-5 mark in doubles as a first-year when she was named the ITA Division III Rookie of the Year. Twice she reached the national championship match in doubles, including last year with teammate Sarah Bahsoun, before they fell in three sets to teammates Catherine Allen and Caroline Cox. Tan and Bahsoun also picked up a big tiebreaker win over Middlebury in the NCAA Semifinals to help the Athenas to the national championship match for the second straight season. 

Lauren Yamagami (San Jose, Calif. - Claremont McKenna, pre-med)
Yamagami compiled a strong 44-10 record in her career with the Athenas, while also earning ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. She almost made it through her whole career without losing a dual singles match, before a defeat to NAIA San Diego Christian this year left her 18-1. A year ago, she had a rare perfect day in a SCIAC win over Occidental, taking a 6-0, 6-0 singles win and an 8-0 doubles win. As a sophomore, she had a three-set win over Texas-Dallas (10-8 in the third-set tiebreaker), and had a freshman year 9-0 record in dual matches, six of which were 6-0, 6-0. She also added a 6-1, 6-3 win in a dual match with MIT, which was ranked No. 9 in the country.