KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced the 2025 NAIA Women's Tennis All-American teams on Friday, and three members of the Loyola Wolf Pack were recognized after the team's most successful season in program history. It's the first time a Wolf Pack program has had at least three players make First, Second, or Third Team All-America since the women's golf team had three in 2021.
Loyola graduate student Lucy Carpenter made the NAIA All-America First Team, which marks her fifth straight year as an NAIA All-American. Juniors Chloe Henderson and Micaela Ponce both were selected to the Third Team, and both are making their first appearances on any of the NAIA's All-America teams. [Full 2025 All-Americans list]
One of the division's best women's tennis players since her freshman season, Carpenter started her career making the NAIA's Second Team in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and now she has been a First-Team All-American in each of the last two seasons. The No. 6-ranked player in ITA singles, Carpenter played every singles dual match at the No. 1 position against the best competition in the NAIA and compiled a 15-4 record.
In doubles, Carpenter and Henderson were one of the best pairs in the NAIA, going 19-2 overall with their only losses coming against the top two teams in the rankings. Henderson, who finished the year ranked No. 31 in singles, spent most of the year as the Pack's No. 2 singles player. She collected the second-most wins on the team with a 16-7 overall record and won both her singles matches in the NAIA National Championship tournament.
Ponce, ranked No. 40 in the NAIA, nearly totaled double-digit singles wins despite missing a chunk of the schedule due to injury, going 9-5 while splitting time between the No. 2 and No. 3 singles positions. The team of Ponce and Adele Fereres spent most of the season ranked in doubles, ending the year with a 15-2 record.
Loyola set a new program record for wins in a season in the 2025 spring campaign, going 17-6 overall. The Pack won its first SSAC Championship in April, then reached the NAIA National Championship quarterfinals for the second year in a row with a win in the second round against No. 11 Marian. This was the first time Loyola has had three women's tennis All-Americans since the 2018-19 season, when Manuela Alban, Arianna Pepper, and Koral Martinez all were Honorable Mentions.
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