Katherine Wurster
Katherine Wurster
  • Height:
    5-8
  • Year:
    Fy.
  • Hometown:
    Wichita Falls, TX
  • High School:
    Wichita Falls
  • College:
    Claremont McKenna

Bio



Career Record after 1 season: 43-18 (18-9 singles, 25-9 doubles)

At CMS
2022-23 Season (First-Year)

All-American in Singles ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... NCAA Qualifier in singles ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Finished the season with an 18-9 record in singles and a 25-9 mark in doubles ... Won the ITA West Region title in singles with a three-set win (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) over Angie Zhou of Pomona-Pitzer, who won the NCAA singles title in the spring ... Went 2-1 at the ITA Cup, capped by a three-set win over Crystal Zhou of Carnegie Mellon in consolations ... Earned a 6-1, 6-3 win at No. 2 singles against No. 13 Williams. 

Prior to CMS
Attended Wichita Falls Christ Academy in Texas, where she was a member of the tennis program ... Was a TAPPS 1A Regional and State Singles Champion in all three seasons that were completed (2019/Freshman, 2021/Junior, 2022/Senior) ... TAPPS 1st Team All-State Tennis (2021/Junior and 2022/Senior) ... Helped her team to two TAPPS Small School Team Tennis State Championships (2021/Junior and 2022/Senior) ... TAPPS 1A Girls' Team State Champion (2019/Freshman and 2022/Senior) and Runner Up (2021/Junior) ... Also was a USTA Level 2 Doubles Champion twice, 2019 in Chattanooga and 2021 in Oklahoma City, whiel adding a 5th Place Singles finish in 2021 ... USTA Level 1 Doubles Nationals 6th Place 2021 ... Reached quarterfinals in doubles at USTA National Clay Court Championships and Winter National Championships 2019 ... Ranked in the top 20 nationally for USTA Girl's Doubles 18s ... Ranked as a 4-star recruit on TennisRecruiting.net (reached a class ranking as high as 75) ... TAPPS 1A Academic All-State Tennis (2021/Junior and 2022/Senior) ... Graduated as the valedictorian of her senior class. 

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna College.

Katherine Wurster posed shot

News Mentions

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Eight Athenas Earn Scholar-Athlete Honors from Intercollegiate Tennis Association

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Eight members of the NCAA Division III national champion Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis program earned Intercollegiate...

July 17, 2023

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National Champion CMS Women's Tennis Team to Visit White House on Monday

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team will attend the White House on Monday to take part in College Athlete Day,...

June 8, 2023

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Six CMS Women's Tennis Players Capture ITA All-America Honors

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Alisha Chulani earned All-America Honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association in both singles and doubles for the...

June 8, 2023

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Katherine Wurster Wins ITA West Region Rookie of the Year Award for CMS Women's Tennis

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Katherine Wurster of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned the ITA West Region Rookie of the Year Award, while...

June 5, 2023

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Championship Season for CMS Women's Tennis Concludes as Chulani Falls in Singles Quarterfinals

ORLANDO, Fla. - After contributing to the team national championship this week and advancing to the singles quarterfinals with a grueling...

May 20, 2023

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Four Athenas Selected for NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Singles/Doubles Championships

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Alisha Chulani, Katherine Wurster and Audrey Yoon earned invitations to the NCAA Division III Singles Championships, while...

May 4, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Earns Quick Shutout of Chapman to Advance to SCIAC Finals

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The top-seeded Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned a quick 5-0 win over Chapman in the SCIAC Semifinals on...

April 29, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Earns SCIAC Title for 10th Straight Season with 5-3 Win over Pomona-Pitzer

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Nikolina Batoshvili won a second-set tiebreaker at No. 6 singles (6-2, 7-6) for the clinching point as the Claremont-Mudd-Scri...

April 29, 2023

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Katherine Wurster Wins SCIAC Newcomer of the Year, Six Athenas Take All-SCIAC Accolades

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Katherine Wurster of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned the SCIAC Newcomer of the Year and six Athenas...

April 28, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Rolls Past Chapman For 15th Straight Win

ORANGE, Calif. - Alisha Chulani and Audrey Yoon each won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 and No. 2 singles, respectively, as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's...

April 15, 2023

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Second-Ranked CMS Women's Tennis Defeats No. 16 Caltech 8-1

PASADENA, Calif. – The second-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s tennis team continued its outdoor dominance this season, taking an...

April 11, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Stretches Winning Streak to 12 with Another Shutout Win

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team won its 12 match in a row, with seven of the last eight coming by shutout, as...

April 8, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Shuts Out Whittier for 11th Straight Win

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team dropped only five total games across six singles matches as it earned a 9-0 win...

April 7, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Takes Two More Wins, Defeats Redlands, Gustavus Adolphus

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team went on the road in the morning to pick up an 8-1 SCIAC win at Redlands, and...

April 1, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Defeats Grinnell, Stretches Winning Streak to Eight

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team won its eighth straight match, defeating Grinnell on Sunday afternoon at the...

March 26, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Shuts Out Williams, Occidental

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team took a 9-0 win over Williams, and then added a 9-0 win over Occidental in its...

March 25, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Shuts Out Division I Santa Clara

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned the doubles point and then won quick decisions in the bottom half of the...

March 17, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Defeats Sewanee, Bowdoin by 7-2 Scores

CLAREMONT, Calif. – The second-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s tennis team hosted a pair of nationally ranked opponents on...

March 16, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Picks Up Pair of Shutout Wins

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's team got a late start and played through a lengthy weather delay, but was able to pick up a...

March 12, 2023

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Sena Selby Earns SCIAC Athlete of the Week Accolades for CMS Women's Tennis

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Sena Selby of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned the SCIAC Athlete of the Week honor for matches through...

March 6, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Falls to Chicago at ITA Indoor Nationals

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. - Sena Selby and Katherine Wurster came back to win an 8-7 match at No. 3 doubles to give the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's...

March 5, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Advances to ITA Indoor Finals with 7-2 win over MIT

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. - The top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team moved on to the finals of the ITA Indoor Championships with a 7-2...

March 4, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Opens ITA Indoors with 6-3 Win over Case Western

Nicholasville, Ky. - Sena Selby earned wins in both singles and doubles as the top-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team earned a 6-3...

March 3, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Controls Singles for 5-2 Win over Point Loma

San Diego, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team dropped the doubles point to Point Loma, but took five of the six singles...

February 10, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Takes Down Westcliff 8-1 in First Dual of 2022-23 Season

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Alisha Chulani, Sena Selby and Ella Brissett each won in both singles and doubles as the defending national champion Claremont...

February 4, 2023

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CMS Women's Tennis Ranked First in Preseason ITA Division III Poll

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the preseason NCAA Division III poll from the...

January 17, 2023

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Wurster Pulls Out Three-Set Win in ITA Cup Consolations

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Katherine Wurster closed out her first appearance at the ITA Cup with a three-set win over Crystal Zhou of Carnegie Mellon to...

October 14, 2022

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Eisenman/Lee Advance to ITA Cup Doubles Quarterfinals

ROME, Ga. - Lindsay Eisenman and Gabby Lee, the tournament's No. 3 seed, earned a 6-4, 7-5 opening-round win over Jay Lu and Sarah Persemlidis of...

October 13, 2022

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Wurster, Lee/Eisenman Open ITA Cup as Third Seeds Thursday Morning

CLAREMONT, Calif. – Katherine Wurster will be the No. 3 seed in singles and Lindsay Eisenman and Gabby Lee will be the No. 3 seed in doubles...

October 12, 2022

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CMS Women's Tennis Wins ITA Regional Titles in Singles (Wurster), Doubles (Lee/Eisenman)

CLAREMONT, Calif. - First-year Katherine Wurster bounced back from a first-set defeat to win the ITA West Regional singles championship 3-6, 6-3,...

October 2, 2022

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CMS Women's Tennis Advances Seven Into ITA Singles Quarterfinals, Four Teams into Doubles Quarters

CLAREMONT, Calif. - A year ago, the CMS women's tennis team didn't have a player reach the singles finals at the ITA West Regionals, and that is...

October 1, 2022

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Five Athenas to Compete in ITA West Region Championship Matches

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Katherine Wurster will play for the ITA West Region singles championship on Sunday, while two CMS doubles teams will battle...

October 1, 2022

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Biszantz Family Tennis Center to Host ITA West Regionals This Weekend

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Biszantz Family Tennis Center at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps will serve as the host site for the three-day Intercollegiate...

September 29, 2022

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CMS, Pomona-Pitzer Split in Doubles Matches on Final Day of Host Invitational

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Pomona-Pitzer women's tennis teams had some close battles a year ago, with CMS gaining the...

September 18, 2022

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CMS Women's Tennis Dominates on Second Day of CMS-PP Invitational

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team went 4-0 in doubles against Westmont and a combined 15-1 in singles against...

September 17, 2022

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CMS Women's Tennis Starts New Season Strong at Host Invitational

CLAREMONT, Calif. - The CMS women's tennis team, the defending Division III national champions, got off to a strong start to its 2022-23 season by...

September 16, 2022