BATON ROUGE, La. – The fall 2025 slate rolls on as three Yellow Jackets represent Georgia Tech women’s tennis at the ITA Sectional Championships beginning Thursday, Nov. 6 hosted by LSU.
On the court for Georgia Tech will be Alejandra Cruz, Taly Licht and Scarlett Nicholson. Cruz made a quarterfinal run at the ITA Southeast Regionals in October. Along with Nicholson, the duo saw action in the doubles round of 16. Licht made the singles round of 32 at the event in Lake Nona, Fla.
The ITA Women’s Sectional Championships, split between four different sites around the country from Nov. 6-9, will send 24 singles qualifiers and 12 doubles to the NCAA Championships later this month. The Baton Rouge site plays host to the Ohio Valley, Southeast and Southern regions.
In the 15-team field, five squads finished the 2024-25 season inside the ITA Top 25 including No. 1 Georgia, No. 8 Auburn, No. 9 Tennessee, No. 11 LSU and No. 17 Vanderbilt
THE FIELD
- Alabama
- Auburn
- Florida
- Florida State
- Georgia Tech
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Louisville
- LSU
- Miami (Fla.)
- Mississippi State
- Ole Miss
- Tennessee
- Tulane
- Vanderbilt
GEORGIA TECH SCHEDULE OF PLAY – THURSDAY
- R32: Taly Licht (GT) vs. Gianna Oboniye (Mississippi State) – 10 a.m. ET
- R32: Scarlett Nicholson (GT) vs. Gabia Paskauskas (Florida) – 10 a.m. ET
- R32: Alejandra Cruz (GT) vs. Kinaa Graham (LSU) – 12 p.m. ET
- D16: Alejandra Cruz and Scarlett Nicholson (GT) vs. Micah Pierce and Summer Chandler (Tulane) – 4 p.m. ET
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
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