Happy Monday after Regionals ladies and gentlemen! We are down to the final 8 teams in the NCAA tournament but fear not! The Blog still has a lot more content left for you this season. Keep an eye out for our Elite 8 previews and POTW later this week! Meanwhile, I’m still chugging along with our Senior Series. Today’s group features young women from the Atlantic South region. I have no biases so I can objectively say that the Atlantic South is the best region. I’m pretty excited about this group because we have a potential blogger in the mix, though the way I see it, everyone is a potential blogger. If you are reading this and are interested, we’d love to have you help out. It really is all fun and games.
At this point, I’ve closed responses for the Senior Survey since I’ve started taking stats from our responses. Thank you so much to everyone who filled it out! This was a fun exercise and we’d love any feedback about what we should include for next year’s senior tribute or what information the seniors wished they could give but weren’t given a chance.
Senior: Melissa Karidis
School: Grove City College
Major: Finance and Business Management
Tennis Career: Played #5 – #6 singles and #3 doubles for Grove City
Future Career: She can potentially see herself moving toward a financial advisor role in her career
Immediate Post-grad Plans: She will be a Financial Assistant at Hefre-Tillotson in Pittsburgh. She has been wanting to work at HT since the end of her sophomore year, so you could say she got into her dream company!
Other Cool Plans: “I hope to be active within my community and find an organization to volunteer for in my free time. It feels good to give back to the community that has given me so much opportunity”. Well said, Melissa.
Senior: Abigail Kent
School: Centre College
Major: Economics and Finance
Tennis Career: Played #3 singles and #2 doubles for Centre
Future Career: Undecided!
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Sales Representative at Ed/Tech Startup
Other Cool Plans: This one gets the ASW stamp of approval – “I’m getting married in July with a pre-wedding family tennis tournament for all my friends and family who play or played college tennis!” Kick some ass!
Senior: Rachel Christensen
School: Southern Virginia University
Major: Biology
Tennis Career: Saw action at #1 – #4 singles and #1 – #2 doubles at Southern Virginia University
Future Career: Physical Therapist
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Starting a Doctor of Physical Therapy program
Senior: Emily Zelichenok
School: Centre College
Major: Spanish
Tennis Career: Played #2 – #6 singles, #2 – #3 doubles for Centre
Future Career: Healthcare Administrator, hopefully hospital CEO!
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Getting her Masters of Healthcare Administration at Xavier University in Cincinnati
Other Cool Plans: Emily is traveling to Thailand the day after she graduates with her high school tennis best friends!
Senior: Neha Rao
School: Centre College
Major: Behavioral Neuroscience
Tennis Career: #1 – #2 singles, #1 doubles for Centre
Future Career: Physician
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Medical school in Knoxville, TN
Senior: Lily Schreiber
School: Christopher Newport University
Major: Double major in Communication Studies and Spanish, Minor in Leadership Studies
Tennis Career: Played everywhere from #2 – #6 singles and #2 – #3 doubles at CNU
Future Career: Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Business Development Manager at Outdoor Equipped
Other Cool Plans: Lily will be celebrating her graduation at a John Mayer concert! Love it!
Senior: Colette Gilbert
School: Christopher Newport University
Major: BS in Psychology, Minor in Philosophy of Law
Tennis Career: #4 – #6 singles, #2 – #3 doubles for CNU
Future Career: Occupational Therapist
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Teach tennis at home in New Jersey while shadowing a Child Life Specialist
Senior: Emma Wu
School: Franklin and Marshall College
Major: Sociology and Economics Joint Major, Minor in Applied Mathematics
Tennis Career: #3 – #4 singles, #2 – #3 doubles at Franklin and Marshall
Immediate Post-grad Plans: MPP (Masters in Public Policy) Program at the Humphrey School at University of Minnesota
Senior: Gavriel Rubenstein
School: Franklin and Marshall College
Major: Government
Tennis Career: #3 – #5 singles, #2 – #3 doubles for the Diplomats
Future Career: Making waves in the political world
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Teach For America
Senior: Mary Hampton McNeal
School: Washington and Lee University
Major: Accounting and Business Administration
Tennis Career: Everything from #2 – #6 singles, #2 – #3 doubles for the Gennies
Future Career: Finance
Immediate Post-grad Plans: M&A Analyst at Evercore
Senior: Melinda Kauffman
School: Washington and Lee University
Major: English
Tennis Career: #3 – #6 singles, #2 – #3 doubles for W&L
Future Career: Food blogger
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Unknown, but do you know what is a lot like food blogging Melinda? Tennis blogging! Email me if you want some blogging practice!
Senior: Maggie Manchester
School: Grove City College
Major: BS in Psychology, Minor in Biology
Tennis Career: Played #1 – #2 singles and #1 – #2 doubles for Grove City
Future Career: Nurse
Immediate Post-grad Plans: Maggie plans on going back to school for a second degree in nursing. She will going to an accelerated program, but hasn’t decided where yet.
Other Cool Plans: Maggie is getting married in June!
I’m starting to get the impression that with just the D3 women’s tennis seniors from this year, we could build a fully functional hospital. We have no shortage of nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, social work, mental health specialists, and now we have a hospital CEO! And obviously every hospital needs a food blogger.
It’s going to be a busy week at the blog so buckle up and let the countdown begin to the Elite 8!
ASW