TOWSON, Md. – The Towson University tennis team will host three matches during Alumni Weekend at the Tiger Tennis Complex. Jamie Peterson's team will face UNCW (Friday), Mount St. Mary's (Saturday) and Mary Washington (Sunday).
 
Playing on home courts for the first time in 720 days last Saturday, Towson defeated Loyola, 6-1, for its third victory of the season. Peterson shuffled the lineup in both singles and doubles. He flipped Alexa Martinez and Themis Haliou at the top of the singles lineup and made changes to the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles teams. All four moves worked, as each won in straight sets.
 
Before Saturday's match against The Mount, the Tigers will honor seniors Martinez, Lauryn Jacobs and redshirt junior Schuyler Tose.
 
SCOUTING UNCW (Friday, April 9, 3 p.m.)
UNCW has won three consecutive matches, including a 4-3 victory over the College of Charleston last week, to improve to 8-7. The Seahawks play Loyola Thursday afternoon. UNCW leads the all-time series, 9-1, but Towson won the last meeting in 2019.
 
SCOUTING MOUNT ST. MARY'S (Saturday, April 10, 12 p.m.)
Mount St. Mary's is 3-4 so far this season after a loss to Loyola Wednesday. The Mountaineers host Delaware State on Friday. Riya Mathur earned NEC Rookie of the Week honors on March 17. Towson leads the all-time series with Mount St. Mary's, 12-1, and has won eight straight.
 
SCOUTING MARY WASHINGTON (Sunday, April 11, 2 p.m.)
Mary Washington ran its record to 6-1 with a win over Southern Virginia on Wednesday. The Eagles only loss was a 4-3 decision to George Mason. Towson also lost to Mason by a 4-3 margin. This is the first match-up between the schools since February 2009. 
 
HOME SWEET HOME
Last weekend's win over Loyola at the Tiger Tennis Complex improved head coach Jamie Peterson's home record to 25-8.
 
HEY, ALEXA
Alexa Martinez played in her 50^th career singles match against William & Mary (she is now at 57) and made her 50^th career doubles appearances for the Tigers against Loyola. As a sophomore in 2018-19, the John Carroll graduate played both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles. She has played in all six singles positions and all three doubles spots during her Towson career.
 
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Towson's top doubles duo of Themis Haliou and Alexa Martinez has won five of its last seven matches, with wins over Elon, South Carolina State, Norfolk State, George Mason and Loyola during the stretch.
 
WINNING STREAK
Since being moved to No. 3 singles, Amelia Lawson has earned three consecutive straight set victories. In wins over Temple, George Mason and Loyola, the junior has won 36-of-51 games. 
 
STEADY SARAH
Sarah Pospischill leads the team in singles victories with six. The sophomore is 3-2 at No. 4, has two wins in the No. 5 spot and is 1-0 at No. 6.
 
SCHEDULE CHANGE
Towson had added a home match versus Harford Community College on Tuesday, April 20. The Owls began the season ranked 14^th in the ITA Junior College national rankings.
 
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
Over half of the 2021 roster was born outside of the United States. Antonia and Amelia Lawson hail from Wellington, New Zealand, nearly 8,800 miles away from Towson. Jessica Assenmacher is a native of Johannesburg, South Africa, which is 8,085 miles from campus. Themis Haliou is from Strovolos, Cyrus, a town 5,625 miles from Towson. Sarah Pospischill was born and raised in Reisenburg, Austria, which is almost 4,400 miles away. Lea Kosanovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia (4,675 miles from Towson), but her family moved to the United States when she was five years old and she attended Walter Johnson High School in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
 
STUDENT-ATHLETES
During the fall semester, the Towson tennis team was one of five to finish with a grade point average of 3.5 or better. The 11-person squad averaged 3.635, with Jessica Assenmacher, Alexa Martinez and Lea Kosanovic earning perfect 4.0's. Seven student-athletes made the Dean's List. The cumulative GPA for the Towson tennis team is 3.527.
 
DID YOU KNOW?
Head coach Jamie Peterson was two-time team captain on the Towson men's tennis team from 1991-95 and finished his career with a 64-35 record, the fourth-most wins and fourth-best winning percentage in program history. Peterson helped lead the Tigers to back-to-back appearances in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship in 1993 and 1994.
 
TIGERS IN THE COMMUNITY    
The Towson University athletics department deems community service as one of its highest priorities to give back to the Greater Baltimore area. Towson was on track to have its 8th consecutive year of over 10,000 hours of community service in 2019-20 before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all activity.  Towson finished with 7,527 hours last year, good for third in the NCAA Teamworks HelperHelper competition. Towson ranked #1 nationally for community service and won the 2018 National Championship for Community Service through the HelperHelper NCAA Team Works Competition.  Towson also won the 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award from Susan G. Komen of Maryland.