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Long Beach State University Athletics
Big West Champion Beach Tennis Releases 2015-16 Schedule
8/3/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
Complete 2015-16 Schedule
LONG BEACH, Calif. - The Big West champion Long Beach State women's tennis team announced its 2015-16 schedule with two home tournaments and 15 home matches. Head coach Jenny Hilt-Costello put together another challenging slate with 14 opponents appearing in the 2015 rankings.
Fresh off a No. 40 final ranking and its fifth straight NCAA appearance, an experienced Long Beach State lineup is ready to take on a challenging schedule. Fourteen of the 21 dual matches in 2016 will pit the 49ers against teams that appeared in the 2015 rankings. Ten of those teams finished the season ranked and six will face the Beach at Rhodes Tennis Center.
Before the spring dual season begins, the Beach will play in five fall tournaments in addition to hosting a preseason tournament in January. The fall schedule starts with the UNLV Tournament and continues with the invitational All-American Tournament.
Beach Tennis will host its annual fall tournament from Oct. 9-11, featuring squads from around the nation such as Arkansas and Wisconsin, before heading to CSUN for another individual tournament from Oct. 23-25. The fall season wraps up with the Jack Kramer Collegiate Invitational Nov. 5-8.
Long Beach State returns to the courts on Jan. 15 as it hosts its annual three-day individual tournament prior to the start of the dual season. Nationally-ranked squads CSUN and Oregon as well as previously ranked Denver will fill out the field at the Beach Tennis Winter Classic.
The 2016 dual season officially gets underway on Jan. 30 when San Francisco visits the Rhodes Tennis Center at 11 a.m. A trip to CSUN on Feb. 5 opens up Big West play and matches the Beach against its first opponent that finished 2015 in the top-75.
After the quick trip to CSUN, the Beach returns home briefly to face LMU on Feb. 13 before making the trek to face Arizona and Arizona State on Feb. 20-21 - both of which were ranked in 2015. LBSU makes its way back home from the desert for a nine-match home stretch that begins Feb. 26 with UC Irvine and ends March 26 with Sacramento State.
The nine-match homestand features four matches against ranked opponents. After the UCI match, LBSU will also face No. 22 Pepperdine on March 10, nationally-ranked Wyoming on March 17 and No. 31 Dartmouth on March 22. Big West matches against UC Davis on March 5 and Hawai'i on March 24 fill part of the homestand as do nonconference matches against San Diego State and NC State.
The Beach makes a three-match Big West road swing to the central coast to face Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara on the first two days of April before heading to UC Riverside on Apr. 7. Nationally-ranked San Jose State visits Long Beach on Apr. 8 before the Beach rounds out its Big West schedule with Cal State Fullerton on Apr. 15 and Oregon on Apr. 16.
LBSU will look for its sixth straight automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament when it heads back to Indian Wells, Calif. for the Big West Tournament Apr. 27-30.
