Alverno College Athletics - Home of the Inferno

MILWAUKEE -- The Alverno College tennis team enters its second year of intercollegiate competition in 2010 and looks to improve on its 10th place Northern Athletics Conference finish from the program's inaugural season in 2009. Head coach Erin Felber was pleased with the team's progress last season and is already eager about its competitive level this preseason.

"I'm incredibly excited," Felber said. "From day one of practice everybody came ready to play. We are exponentially better than we were last year, as far as practice goes."

The Inferno finished the 2009 regular season at 1-9 before their 10th place (out of 12 teams) finish at the NAC championship. It took the team eight dual matches to muster the program's first win, but Felber believes that inexperience played a role in some of the early losses, which will be less of a factor this year with four returners and an experienced transfer.

MILWAUKEE -- The Alverno tennis team has added another dual match to its 2010 schedule this fall, as just announced by the athletics department. The Inferno will host Ashford University on Saturday, Sept. 18, at the main tennis courts at Nicolet H.S. in Glendale.

The Inferno, who host Wisconsin Lutheran College in a Northern Athletics Conference dual at 10 a.m. that morning, will begin the nonconference dual versus Ashford at 2 p.m.

MILWAUKEE -- The Northern Athletics Conference announced that Alverno College senior Katie Craze (Fond du Lac, Wis./St. Mary's Springs) has been named to the conference's 2009 Women's Tennis All-Sportsmanship Team.

"Katie truly earned this award through hard work and effort," Alverno head coach Erin Felber said. "No matter what spot she was playing, she had a positive attitude and supported her teammates until the end. She was a great team captain and always led by example. When I think of good sportsmanship I think of Katie Craze."

The 12-player All-Sportsmanship team is comprised of individuals who exemplified positive sportsmanship throughout the season.

MADISON, Wis. -- The Alverno College women's tennis team concluded their 2009 fall season with a 10th place finish at the 2009 Northern Athletics Conference Tennis Championship in Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison.

"I am really proud of the team as a whole how they came together and fought hard in every match up until the bitter end," Alverno head coach Erin Felber said.

The Inferno tied Lakeland College with 11 points for 10th place, while Edgewood College captured the NAC championship for the second straight season with 73 points. Rockford College finished last with six points for 12th place.