University of Southern Indiana Women’s Tennis has signed Abigail Myers to a national letter of intent and received commitments to play from three additional players for the 2021-22 season.
Myers, a senior at Reitz Memorial High School (Evansville, Indiana) has played tennis all four years for the Tiger. She also is a member of Champion Elite at the Tri-State Athletic Club and plans to study early childhood education. Tennis runs in the family as Myers has an older sister who plays for the Red Hawks at Miami University of Ohio while her younger sister stays motivated training full-time in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
On the tennis court, she was named All-SIAC twice (2017-18 second team and 2018-19 first team). Myers had great success in 2019 as a member of the Tigers’ sectional & regional championship team and ultimately earned 2019 doubles first-team All-State accolades.
USI received commitments to play for the Eagles next year from Abby Brown, Ellie Ossenberg, and Madison Windham.
A senior at F.J. Reitz High School (Evansville, Indiana), Brown has received magna cum luade honors for her academic effort and plans to study communications at USI where her older brother, Dylan, is a member of the men’s tennis team.
Ossenberg, a senior at Castle High School (Newburgh, Indiana) is a member of the Knights’ tennis team the last four years. The incoming early childhood education major plays in the USTA tournaments at the Evansville Tennis Center, her home court.
Windham is in her senior year at Rossview High School (Clarksville, Tennessee) looking to earn her fourth varsity letter in women’s tennis. The future food and nutrition major was named Leaf Chronicles’ All-Area Girls Tennis Player of the Year twice and won her respective district singles tournaments as a freshman and sophomore. She was a finalist in the regionals as a freshman and sophomore and helped lead RHS to a district championship in 2019.
USI Women’s Tennis Head Coach Keely Porter had this to say about the upcoming additions to her team,
“I am excited to bring in these talented players. With nine possible returners, we could have our largest roster ever. Consistently intense competition is pushing my current group to work hard, which is what we need to be a better team.
Abby Myers should make an immediate impact on our line up. With two exceptionally strong tennis-playing sisters, Abby is coming into her own. She has begun focusing on singles, after early doubles success.
Elle, Madison and Abby Brown are all good athletes, with games that can be developed with more experience. All four of these high school players were very disappointed to miss their junior high school season, motivating them to prepare for an even better senior year. I look forward to following them compete this spring.â€
