The other writers are hard at work bringing you conference tournament previews – click to check out our previews of NESCACs and Liberty League conference tournaments! I, on the other hand, have not been hard at work blogging. If you aren’t following my every move on twitter (@d3asouthwomens), I watched all of Game of Thrones this week from the first episode to the most current, which comes out to ~70 hours of TV. In 5 days. You do the math because my brain can’t after that much TV. I mostly did it so I could understand all the dang references my fellow bloggers keep making, though honestly it was more fun not understanding them and butchering them the way I butcher cool kid slang. Now that I’m all caught up, my last few remaining brain cells are bringing you some more senior profiles! I was considering making this a surprise article about how Game of Thrones is better than Yu-gi-oh but only just barely, with a large part of my argument hinging on the fact that there simply isn’t enough dire wolf in GoT, but I decided that the world is not ready for that essay. Instead I went with senior profiles from Blog favorite conferences NESCAC, Liberty League, and NEWMAC! Check them out below —
Senior: Lydia Venditti
School: Colby College
Major: Double Major in Psychology/Neuroscience and Science, Technology & Society
Tennis Career: #1 – #2 singles, #1 – #2 doubles, played some doubles with her twin sister Gabriela
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Associate in Risk Management Department at Prudential Financial
Senior: Gabriela Venditti
School: Colby College
Major: Government and Psychology
Tennis Career: #2 – #3 singles, #1 – #2 doubles, played some doubles with her twin sister Lydia
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Analyst at the Public Financial Management Group
Senior: So Jin Ki
School: Wellesley College
Major: Political Science
Tennis Career: #3 – #6 singles, #3 doubles
Future Career: Going to make waves on the executive board of a company
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Brokerage Operations Associate at Fidelity Investments
Senior: Justine Huang
School: Wellesley College
Major: Economics
Tennis Career: #1 – #2 singles, #1 – #2 doubles at Wellesley
Future Career: Will work in environmental law or policy
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Research analyst
Other Cool Plans: Justine will be doing a summer internship at a renewable energy company in India!
Senior: Morgane Flournoy
School: Vassar College
Major: Double Major in International Studies and French & Francophone Studies
Tennis Career: #5 singles, #2-#3 doubles for the Brewers
Future Career: Work for the federal government in foreign affairs, international security and defense
Immediate Post-grad Plans: US Air Force Officer Training School – Thank you for your future service!
Senior: Melissa Parrish
School: Springfield College
Major: Health Science/Physical Therapy, Spanish Major
Tennis Career: #1 singles, #1 doubles for the Pride
Future Career: Physical Therapist
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Pursuing her Doctorate of Physical Therapy at Springfield College
Other Cool Plans: Melissa will be a Tennis Europe Summer Coach! If you don’t know what that is, check out Tennis Europe here — https://tenniseurope.com/.
Senior: Otilia Popa
School: Tufts University
Major: Biology and Psychology
Tennis Career: #1 – #2 doubles, Otilia is a doubles specialist
Future Career: Physician
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Taking some victory laps before medical school, will be taking the MCAT soon. Good luck!
Other Cool Plans: After graduation Otilia will be traveling to Romania, where she was born.
Senior: Victoria Yu
School: Wesleyan University
Major: Double Major in Chemistry and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Tennis Career: #1 – #2 singles (because Eudice), #1 doubles, NCAA Doubles Champion, NCAA Singles Runner-up, Singles and Doubles All American (a bunch of times), CoSIDA Academic All-American. I probably didn’t do it justice but the Wesleyan website doesn’t have bulleted profiles so I did my best.
Future Career: Physician
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Victoria is still figuring that out but she has some time
Other Cool Plans: At the end of the summer Victoria will travel around Europe! Sounds like a good use of a summer.
Senior: Leah Bush
School: Williams College
Major: Economics and one class short of a math major (Williams doesn’t have minors)
Tennis Career: Went from #6 singles as a freshman to #1 now! Also plays #1 doubles. Singles All-American, helped her team win the NCAA Championship as a sophomore
Future Career: Understudy to King George when Hamilton goes on tour for the 53rd time
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Summer internship with USTA (Postgraduate Fellowship Program in Professional Coaching)
Other Cool Plans: My USTA internship will take me to the Lake Nona campus, the US Open, and lots of places in between. If you see me around—whether you’re a student athlete, a prospective Eph, a DIII tennis blogger, a dog of DIII, whatever—feel free to say or bark a quick hello.
There you have it. We’ll definitely have to stay in touch with Leah, mostly because of potential Hamilton tickets in 50 years but also because she’ll continue to make waves in the tennis community. We have a very exciting weekend of tennis ahead of us with all the conference tournaments going on, and good luck to these amazing women in the remainders of their tennis careers. There are still a few responses trickling in, so if you know any seniors who haven’t taken our Senior Survey yet, have them fill it out here – https://forms.gle/AkMpAjHS8GCAmefC7. Keep an eye on the Blog for the best D3 coverage – we have our next installment of the competitiveness series coming at you this weekend. And of course, keep voting for our D3 Dogs because they are the real heart and soul of D3 tennis. My pick Moon might have lost but after seeing Stuart Litl’ in that Williams team picture I think I’m getting won over.
-ASW