{"id":733246,"date":"2026-06-13T04:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:06:25","slug":"womens-tennis-set-to-welcome-historic-recruiting-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733246\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Tennis Set to Welcome Historic Recruiting Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     LA JOLLA, Calif. \u2014 The Tennis Recruiting Network announced its annual recruiting class rankings Friday, and UC San Diego women&#8217;s tennis is featured for the second-straight year. The Tritons are ranked No. 20 nationally among all mid-major programs, their highest ranking in program history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLast year&#8217;s recruiting class marked the first time the Tritons appeared in the mid-major rankings. That group checked in at No. 23. This year&#8217;s incoming class is one of only two Big West schools featured in the rankings (Sacramento State).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHead coach <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/sebastian-bader\/2005\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2005\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Bader<\/a> and associate head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/coaches\/jake-de-vries\/2007\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2007\" target=\"_blank\">Jake De Vries<\/a> have secured three commitments from this year&#8217;s high school recruiting class. The group is highlighted by Sonya Goldberg, the program&#8217;s first five-star recruit since moving to NCAA Division I in 2020. The Orinda, California, native is ranked No. 45 nationally and No. 10 in California among all graduating high schoolers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGoldberg will be joined in La Jolla by fellow Californian Cassie Blakey, a four-star recruit from Palos Verdes Estates. Rounding out the group is Kannchaya Chungwatana, an international recruit from Thailand.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe rankings only include high school recruits. The Tritons will also add transfer scholar-athlete Emma Pell from William &amp; Mary to the team next season. Pell is a graduate transfer who was a four-star recruit in 2022. She is a native of Kentfield, California.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe newcomers join a Triton team that featured five underclassmen in the 2025-26 season. Two-thirds of UC San Diego&#8217;s lineup spots at this season&#8217;s Big West Championship were filled by those underclassmen.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbout UC San Diego Athletics<br \/>\nAfter two decades as one of the most successful\u00a0programs in\u00a0NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era as\u00a0a\u00a0member\u00a0of The Big West in\u00a0NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in\u00a0Divisions\u00a0II\u00a0and III and helped guide\u00a01,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 39 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world&#8217;s preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II.\u00a0For more information on the Tritons, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UCSDtritons.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/2020\/9\/30\/social-media-directory.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/ucsdtritons.com\/sports\/2019\/12\/12\/social-media-directory.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@UCSDtritons<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; LA JOLLA, Calif. \u2014 The Tennis Recruiting Network announced its annual recruiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-733246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}