Women win 3rd consecutive C-USA tennis championship

After celebrating its previous three Conference-USA championships on foreign courts, the Rice women’s tennis team made certain that the inaugural season at the George R. Brown Tennis Center would end with a championship flair as the Owls downed Marshall 4-1 on Sunday to capture the C-USA women’s tennis title.

The title was the fourth C-USA crown for the program in the past 10 seasons that Rice has been a member of the conference and the third consecutive title win. Rice captured previous championships at Southern Methodist University, the University of Houston and Old Dominion, and the most recent crown allowed the team to match Tulsa and Tulane as the only schools to win three consecutive C-USA women’s tennis titles.