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- Year:
- Jr.
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- Hometown:
- Knoxville, TN
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- High School:
- Webb
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- College:
- Claremont McKenna
Bio
At CMS
Career Record after 2 seasons: 68-17 (44-7 singles, 24-10 doubles)
2022-23 (Junior)
All-American in singles ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... Finished the year with a 24-2 singles record, going undefeated in dual matches until the national finals, which CMS won 5-3 ... Won her semifinal match 6-0, 6-3 over Emily Kantrovitz of Emory ... Earned All-America honors in singles by winning an opening round NCAA match over Ida Krause of NYU 7-5, 7-6 ... Had a key 6-1, 6-4 win over Nina Ye of Pomona-Pitzer in the NCAA Regional Finals, a 5-4 CMS comeback win ... Also defeated Ye 7-6, 6-0 in the SCIAC finals ... Played up at No. 1 singles against Cal Lutheran and had a 6-2, 6-3 win over Carmen Bufkin, who would earn one of the 32 spots in the NCAA singles competition ... Reached the semifinals of the ITA West Region in doubles, before falling to teammates Lindsay Eisenman and Gabby Lee.
2021-22 (Sophomore)
All-SCIAC first team honors ... Had a 20-5 record in singles and 9-4 record in doubles ... Played 1-3 singles for the Athenas for most of the season while helping CMS capture its second national title in program history with a 5-1 win over Chicago on May 25 ... Picked up a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 3 singles during a 5-0 win over SUNY-Oneonta in the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament ... Played at No. 1 singles against No. 16 Bowdoin and earned a 6-0, 6-1 win, along with a 6-1, 6-2 win over No. 2 Emory ... Had a comeback three-set win against No. 8 Middlebury, and a close 7-6, 7-5 win against No. 9 Amherst ... Recorded an 8-4 win at No. 2 doubles with Ella Brissett in a 9-0 win over Occidental.
2020-21 (First-Year)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Athenas did not compete due to COVID-19.
Prior to CMS
Attended Webb School of Knoxville, where she was a member of the tennis team ... Posted a 30-0 record as a senior while winning the Division II-A state singles championship ... Helped Webb to its 10th straight state championship as a senior, after first joining the program in eighth grade ... Earned All-5Star Preps Girls Tennis Player of the Year honors ... Knox News Sports Awards’ Girls Tennis Player of the Year for 2019 ... Four-star recruit from TennisRecruiting.net, which ranked her second in the state of Tennessee ... Ranked as high as No. 86 in her class by Tennis Recruiting, as well as 40 by Tennis RPI ... Reached the semifinals of the Icy Hot Winter Indoor Championships in Knoxville in December of 2019 by winning her first four matches in straight sets ... AP Scholar and member of the National Honor Society for scholastic achievement ... Inducted into Webb’s Mu Alpha Theta Honor Society for excellence in mathematics.
Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna College ... Older sister, Lauren, is on the tennis team at Emory.
News Mentions

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

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

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

Chulani Fights Off Three Match Points to Move on to NCAA Singles Quarterfinals
ORLANDO, Fla. – Alisha Chulani fought off three match points to win a third-set tiebreaker 8-6 to advance to the NCAA Division III Women&rsq...
May 19, 2023

CMS Women's Tennis Advances to Fourth Straight National Championship Match with 5-1 Win over Emory
ORLANDO, Fla. - Alisha Chulani and Nikolina Batoshvili won a tiebreaker at No. 1 doubles to give CMS a 2-1 lead, and Chulani, Audrey Yoon and...
May 16, 2023

CMS Women's Tennis Comes Back in Singles for 5-4 Win over Amherst in NCAA Quarterfinals
ORLANDO, Fla. - Audrey Yoon won the decisive third set 6-0 for the fifth and deciding point as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team came...
May 14, 2023

CMS Women's Tennis Comes Back to Defeat Pomona-Pitzer 5-4 in NCAA Regional Finals
RICHARDSON, Texas - Lindsay Eisenman and Ella Brissett had a pivotal comeback win at No. 3 doubles and then took the final two singles points in...
May 7, 2023

CMS Women's Tennis Defeats UT Dallas 5-1 to Advance to NCAA Regional Finals
RICHARDSON, Texas - The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team lead 2-1 after doubles and got quick singles wins from Audrey Yoon, Sena Selby...
May 6, 2023

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

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

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

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

Second-Ranked CMS Women's Tennis Defeats No. 3 Pomona-Pitzer 5-4 for SCIAC Regular Season Title
CLAREMONT, Calif. - The second-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis team faced a tough challenge from Pomona-Pitzer in singles, but gutted...
April 22, 2023

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

CMS Women's Tennis Wins 14th Straight, Takes Down UC Santa Cruz 8-1
CLAREMONT, Calif. - Alisha Chulani, Lindsay Eisenman and Audrey Yoon each won in singles and doubles as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's tennis...
April 14, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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