2001-02 News

JENNIFER GARVEY NAMED REGION’S SENIOR AWARD WINNER

Team Captain Garners Great Lakes Region's Top Player Honor

Garvey was one of three Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) players honored by the ITA’s committee. Northwood University’s Carina Kaempfer received the region’s ITA Rookie-of-the-Year Award, Aijana Otunchieva of Michigan Tech garnered ITA Great Lakes Region Player-to-Watch honors and head coach Zane Colestock of Northwood earned ITA Great Lakes Region Coach-of-the-Year accolades. Northern Kentucky’s Jamie O’Hara was the 2001-02 ITA Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Region Award recipient.

The 5-9 Garvey led the Bulldogs to a 17-9 overall record, including a third place 10-1 GLIAC finish and the program’s seventh consecutive regional tournament appearance. The Bulldogs, rated 25th overall in the latest (April 26) Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) NCAA Division II national rankings, were eliminated in the championship match (May 4) of the 2002 NCAA Division II Great Lakes Region Tournament by Northern Michigan (5-4) at FSU’s Racquet and Fitness Center in Big Rapids, Mich. A marketing/professional tennis management major, Garvey recently (May 16) was named to the first-team 2001-02 Verizon Academic All-District IV College Division Women’s At-Large Team.

Garvey, who was Ferris’ number one singles player this season, had a team-leading 24-6 singles and 29-4 doubles record during the 2001-02 campaign. She teamed with sophomore Barbora Jilkova (Prague, Czech Republic) at number one doubles to place fifth at the 2001 ITA/National Small College Tennis Championships (Oct. 18) in Plano, Texas.

A four-time (1998-2001) first-team All-GLIAC pick, Garvey compiled a 99-25 career singles record and a 109-30 overall doubles mark. The FSU captain concluded her four-year career as the school’s top all-time singles victory leader and placed sixth in career singles winning percentage (.798). She also ranks second in doubles wins and seventh in career doubles winning percentage (.784). Garvey, a 2000-01 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete honoree, finished her career ranked second among Ferris’ all-time performers in combined singles and doubles victories (208-55 – .791).

Last season, Garvey earned 2000 GLIAC Player-of-the-Year accolades while compiling a 25-10 singles mark and the program’s fifth-best single-season doubles record (28-11). Garvey, the 2000 ITA Mid-American Regional Singles and Doubles Champion, led Ferris to three consecutive (1999-2001) NCAA Division II National Championship appearances during her career.