The Suffolk University Athletic Department has announced that Steve Counihan will return as Head Coach for both Womens and Mens Tennis in 2009-2010. Counihan returns after leading Womens Tennis to a 2007 Great Northeast Athletic Conference Championship.
The Simmons College womens tennis team, ranked 25th among Northeast Division III programs, will head to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts where they will face Vassar College on Friday at 11:00AM. Simmons went 12-6 this season, receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship by winning the Great Northeast Athletic Conference title with a 7-0 record. Vassar went 17-4 and won the Liberty League Championship. The winner of the Vassar-Simmons match will move on to play host and defending National Champion Williams on Saturday.
Simmons goes into the 2008 GNAC Women's Tennis tournament as the #1 seed. The 2007 GNAC Champions, Suffolk University, enter the tournament as the #2 seed.