Catherine Allen
Catherine Allen
  • Height:
    5-5
  • Year:
    Gr. - Capt.
  • Hometown:
    Shoreline, WA
  • High School:
    Holy Names Academy
  • Major:
    Legal Studies
  • College:
    CGU

Bio

At CMS - Career Record through senior season: 190-27 (90-12 singles, 100-15 doubles)

2019-20 (Senior)
ITA Division III National Senior Player of the Year
ITA All-American in singles and doubles
ITA West Region Senior Player of the Year
CMS Female Athlete of the Year
Scripps Athlete of the Year
National Strength and Conditioning Association All-America Athlete
ITA Scholar-Athlete selection
Won the ITA Cup Division III National Championship in doubles (with Justine Leong) ... Reached the ITA Cup national singles finals as well, where she was slated to face Leong, before withdrawing with an injury ... Compiled a 16-1 singles record, with the only defeat to Leong, including 9-0 in duals ... Won the clinching match with the score tied 4-4 in a win over Emory in the ITA Indoor Championship match (7-5, 3-6, 7-5) ... Closed out with a 6-2, 6-1 singles win and an 8-3 doubles win over No. 19 WashU in her final collegiate match ... Earned a three-set win against Hawaii Pacific, ranked No. 8 in Division II, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 ... Captured a 6-1, 6-1 win over No. 7 Carnegie Mellon at the ITA Indoor semifinals. 

2018-19 (Junior) 
ITA All-American in singles and doubles
NCAA Division III National Champion in Doubles
NCAA Division III National Semifinalist in Singles
First-Team All-SCIAC
Two-time SCIAC Athlete of the Week
Scripps Athlete of the Year
Finished the season with a 23-3 singles record (16-1 duals) and a 34-4 doubles record (21-3 duals) ... Had final national rankings of No. 1 in doubles (with Caroline Cox) and No. 2 in singles ... Picked up singles wins in all three matches at nationals, including quarterfinals over Carnegie Mellon (6-4, 6-3), semifinals over Middlebury (6-1, 6-0) and national championship match over Wesleyan (6-3, 7-5) ... Reached the semis of the NCAA singles competition with a 7-6, 6-3 quarterfinal win over Marjorie Antohi of Chicago ... Won the NCAA doubles championship with Caroline Cox 6-7, 6-1, 6-3 over teammates Sarah Bahsoun and Nicole Tan ... Also won the ITA Cup Doubles Championship with Cox in the fall, earning them the No. 1 ranking in the nation, which they never relinquished ... Avenged her only two regular season singles losses (both to Caroline Casper of Pomona-Pitzer) with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Casper in the SCIAC Championship ... Went three sets in an unfinished match with eventual national singles champion Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico of Emory (6-3, 6-7, 1-3) at the ITA Indoor Championships. 

2017-18 (Sophomore)
ITA All-American in singles ... First-Team All-SCIAC ...
 Had a 26-6 record in singles, including a 15-4 record in duals, 9-0 playing at No. 2 ... Also had a 23-3 record in doubles ... Had a 6-2, 7-6 win in the national championship match against Emory to tie the score 4-4 ... Also had a 7-5, 6-3 win in the national semis against No. 2 Williams to put the Athenas ahead 4-3 ... Reached the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championships before dropping a three-setter to Victoria Yu of Wesleyan ... Defeated No. 7 Elysa Kohrs of MIT in the singles quarterfinals ... Won the ITA West Region Singles Championship before reaching the semifinals at the ITA Cup. 

2016-17 (First-Year)

ITA All-American in singles and doubles ... Finished the year ranked No. 13 nationally in singles and No. 9 in doubles after reaching the NCAA quarterfinal round in both ... Tallied a 25-2 record in singles, with the only loss in the ITA West Regional Finals in the fall to Caroline Casper (Pomona-Pitzer) and to No. 1 Eudice Chong of Wesleyan in the NCAA Quarterfinals... Also had a 23-5 record in doubles ... Had a key singles win against Pomona-Pitzer at No. 3 singles in the NCAA West Regional finals to send the Athenas on to the NCAA Championships in Chattanooga ... Singles finalist and doubles semifinalist in the ITA Fall Regional. 

Personal
Majoring in legal studies ... Aspires to be a human rights legal advisor ... Lists Asian American Contemporary Issues as the most interesting course she has taken in college so far ... Spent the summer (2018) traveling to Vietnam and Cambodia ... Interests include doing the shimmy, yelling at the top of her lungs, eating lollipops, and meowing.

Nickname: Wildcat

News Mentions

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11 Athenas Earn ITA Scholar-Athlete Distinction

CLAREMONT, Calif. - A total of 11 members of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Women's Tennis team earned Scholar-Athlete honors from the Intercollegiate...

July 15, 2021

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Video Tribute: The CMS Women's Tennis Class of 2021

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The member of the CMS Women's Tennis Class of 2021 began their careers as first-years by winning a national title on their own...

April 11, 2021