Collegiate Times

Tech senior Inga Beermann serves toward her opponent. Beermann is one of the three seniors who will be leaving the team after this season.

After beating Wake Forest in the last match of the season, the Hokies went on to face them four days later in the ACC Championships in Cary, N.C.

Virginia Tech was not as successful in its second meeting with Wake Forest.

"It was disappointing," Zawacki-Woods said. "We had just beaten Wake Forest a few days before. It's really tough to go back out and beat them two times in a row.

"Wake is definitely a good team. They're a top-40 team. They are in the NCAA tournament," she said. "So I think it's still a win that we could have had, but I think Wake Forest just played better than we did that day."

Senior Jessica Brouwer, who partnered with sophomore Holly Johnson against Wake in doubles, said, "We lost our doubles, unfortunately."

"Not our best doubles," she said.

"Singles-wise, I played a lot better. I lost pretty quickly the first time, and this time I got a three setter out of it," she said.

Brouwer earned a nationals singles ranking late in the season this spring and was ranked in doubles for the majority of the dual match season.

"We did pretty well," said Brouwer. "I think we're still ranked 75."

As for season totals, Brouwer ended with 16 singles wins and ended her career tied for sixth in doubles victories at 67.

"I had a great win over number 28 from Duke," she said. "I played a lot of ranked people and was really close every time."

"I'm going to miss the whole team thing," said Brouwer. "Tennis is such an individual sport. It's really fun to have more people around you and be really close to a certain amount of people."

Beermann had similar feelings as she said, "Practice, I'm going to miss sometimes. I'm not going to miss getting up early and all the time you have to put in. I'm probably going to miss the team the most."

As for next year, "We want to keep improving," Zawacki-Woods said. "We want to be in that post-season play in the NCAA tournament. That's a goal that I still feel is very attainable and that we're going to keep striving for."

"The underclassmen will now have a year under their belt," she said, "so we're looking forward to them stepping up into some higher positions."

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