Women's Tennis Preview: 2013 Season Opener At UCF

ORLANDO - The  Bethune-Cookman women's tennis team opens its 2013 spring schedule against UCF Friday at 2 p.m.

The Lady Wildcats are coming off a 20-win spring 2012 campaign and a fall season that included winning the HBCU National Tennis Championship team title in September. B-CU was voted to finish second in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Southern Division preseason poll.

Shereen Peterson-Paul, who went 18-7 in singles play and 17-6 in doubles play last spring and won her flight at HBCU Nationals, returns for her senior season and is joined by returning players Gaby Chinchilla, Chinatsu Kajiwara and Laura Rodriguez.

B-CU's home opener will be a Feb. 1 doubleheader against Florida College of Sarasota and Palm Beach Atlantic at City Island Courts in Daytona Beach.