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2024-25 Women's Tennis Roster

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Edwin Mahan

Gavriella Smith

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Lusher Charter School
  • Hometown New Orleans, La.

Biography

CAREER HONORS
2025: CSC Academic All-District
2025: Academic All-Ivy
2024: ITA Scholar-Athlete 
2023: Second Team All-Ivy
2023: CSC Academic All-District
2023: ITA Scholar-Athlete

2024-25:
Went 17-8 overall, including 13-6 in singles in the spring ... Made appearances in all 21 spring matches in doubles, playing all three positions in the lineup with four different partners over the course of the season ... Earned a 5-1 singles record in conference play ... Competed in 20 of 21 spring matches in the singles lineup, playing in three different positions in the lineup throughout the season ... Clinched the team win over #69 Columbia with her three-set win over Emily Baek (7-6 ]10-8], 4-6, 7-5) ... CSC Academic All-District ... Academic All-Ivy. 

2023-24: ITA Scholar-Athlete ... Went 23-11 overall this year, with a winning 13-7 spring record, spent time in the #3 and #4 slots during singles play … Picked up three Ivy League wins over Brown’s Nora Lee (6-0, 6-1), #38 Harvard’s Maxi Duncan (6-7, 6-2, 6-0), and Dartmouth’s Elizabeth Fahrmeier (7-5, 6-2) … Qualified for the ITA Northeast Super Regional during the fall (10/20-22), topping Temple’s Maiko Uchijimia (6-4, 3-6, 6-1) and Boston University’s #8 seeded Victoria Carlsten (7-6, 7-5) to make it to the quarterfinals.

2022-23: Second-team All-IvyPlayed most of the season at singles #2 and #3 and stepped into the singles #1 spot later in the season, going 2-2 in the top spot … Posted an overall record of 9-6 … Finished the season with a 1-1 record at #2 singles and was 6-3 at #3 singles … Went 1-2 in Ivy matches with four others ending unfinished … Opened the dual season by clinching match point against Richmond at #1 singles … At the ECAC Championships, defeated Cornell's Emma Baker, 6-2, 6-4 to clinch a 4-1 Penn victory over the Big Red (2/12) … CSC Academic All-District … Did not compete in the fall ... ITA Scholar Athlete.

2021-22: Went 25-5 on the season in singles action … Went 8-13 in doubles play … She went 5-1 against Ivy League opponents … Had the clinching point against Penn State (3/6), Yale (4/10), and Cornell (4/24).  

High School: Five-time Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) Division III singles state championships winner, her first title coming as a seventh-grader … Won the girls’ 16 championship at the 2018 Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Classic … San Diego hard courts winner … Graduated Summa Cum Laude … Model UN member … Da Vinci Scholar.
 
Personal: Older brother, Zachary, played for the men’s tennis team at Penn … Father played college tennis at Tulane … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    5'6"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2023-24Junior

    5'6"
  • 2024-25Senior

    5'6"