Georgia Tech Women's Tennis Programs and Guides
Collection
Identifier: UP009
This collection brings together the published programs and media guides published by Georgia Tech on the women's tennis program at the Institute.
(1 document case; about 10 bound and unbound volumes)
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Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Head of Archives and Special Collections.
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Each of these annual publications, which are primarily intended as media guides and/or recruiting brochures, contains photos and profiles of the current team and coaches; reviews of the previous season and outlooks for the upcoming season; schedules for the coming season; team and individual statistics; information on the Tech tennis facilities; media information; and background on Georgia Tech itself.
Within the date range of this collection, the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 volumes are missing.
Georgia Tech first formed a women's tennis team in 1977. For the first two seasons, Hoylene Noble coached the team to an overall 8-6 record. Julie Wrege took over in 1979 and remained until 1985, when family concerns forced her to resign. Rick Davison served the team as coach after Wrege, finishing in 1991 with a 79-88 record. Wrege came back as interim head coach in 1992 for one season. Overall, her record was 86-75. Wrege was inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1997 for her service to the team.
Two coaches led the team during the rest of the 1990s: Janey Strause (1993 and 1994) and Sue Hutchinson (1995-1999). In the 1999-2000 season, Bryan Shelton, who had starred for the men's tennis team during the late 1980s and gone on to a distinguished career as a professional tennis player, returned to Tech as the women's tennis coach. Under Shelton's leadership, women's tennis has enjoyed considerable success: As of the 2011 season, the team has appeared in the NCAA Tournament 11 times, won the ACC Tournament four times, and become national champions in 2007.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
This is a collection that has been created by the Georgia Tech Archives from the publications produced by Tech relating to the women's tennis program. The immediate provenance of the publications is unknown, although they were likely to have been deposited in the Library and Archives by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association's Sports Information Office. Accession number 2012.018.
(1 document case; about 10 bound and unbound volumes)
The publications in this collection have been cataloged and assigned the call number GV990 .G463x. Many of these publications are also found in the Georgia Tech Library, but the Archives has the most complete collection. For women's tennis guides dating from 1986 through 1989, see the Georgia Tech Men's Tennis Programs and Guides (UP008).
Christine de Catanzaro processed these records in February 2012.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository