KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The NAIA released its final Women's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 Poll before the 2026 National Championship, and the Loyola Wolf Pack maintained a ranking of No. 10.
This is the team's third straight poll with a No. 10 national ranking. It's also the 60th consecutive poll in which the Pack featured in the national top 25 dating back to the 2018 season. This week, Loyola, William Carey, and Mobile are still the only teams from the Southern States Athletic Conference to receive any votes.
[Full top 25 list]
Loyola's women's team has an 8-7 record this season after playing the program's most challenging schedule to date. The Pack played nine matches against ranked NAIA opponents this year, with six of those opponents landing in the top 10. The team appeared in the SSAC Championship final for the second consecutive season, falling against No. 5 William Carey.
At the conference tournament, six Wolf Pack players were honored on the All-Conference Teams: Micaela Ponce, Avery Frierson, and Adele Fereres made the All-SSAC First Team, while Presha Shanthamoorthi, Sofia Amodu, and Avrora Volkova all received Second Team honors.
Going into the national tournament, Fereres leads the team with a 10-2 singles record, also going 8-5 in doubles. She and Frierson are the 10th-ranked doubles team and have gone 3-1 in doubles together. Frierson, who is 6-5 in singles, also won two matches with Amodu and two with Juliette Finch. Shanthamoorthi is the highest ranked Loyola player in ITA singles, checking in at No. 61. She's second on the team in wins with a 9-4 singles record.
The field for the 2026 NAIA Women's Tennis National Championship will be revealed on April 28 during the selection show at 3 p.m. Loyola will need to earn an at-large selection to make its fourth straight appearance at the NAIA Championship, which begins on May 12 in Mobile, Alabama.
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