Azzalina PIcks Up Two Weekly Honors

Megan Azzalina

Megan Azzalina (Easton, Pa./Notre Dame), a freshman on the women’s tennis team, has been named The University of Scranton Athlete of the Week and the Landmark Conference Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, March 18.

Azzalina won five singles and four doubles matches as the Royals won four of five matches to improve to 4-2 overall and 1-0 in the Landmark Conference.  She won two matches apiece in Scranton’s wins over Kutztown, Greenville, and Richard Stockton during a Spring Break trip to Hilton Head, South Carolina, and in a 5-4 win over Goucher College in the Landmark Conference opener for both teams on Sunday, March 18, in Towson, Maryland.

Azzalina currently leads the Royals with a 5-1 record in singles and is tied for the team-lead in wins in doubles with four.

Scranton will return to action this Wednesday, March 21, against Elizabethtown College at the Poly Hi Tennis Courts on campus beginning at 3:30 p.m.

--ROYALS--