The California women's tennis team hosts the ITA Northwest Regional Championships from Friday through Tuesday at the Hellman Tennis Complex and Channing Tennis Courts. The northwest regional competition is one of 13 that the ITA holds in October around the United States. The field in Berkeley will feature more than 100 players – from schools including Eastern Washington, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Oregon, Portland, Portland State, Sacramento State, Saint Mary's, San Jose State, Santa Clara, Stanford, Washington and Washington State – vying with the Golden Bears for singles and doubles titles. The singles finalists and the doubles champions from each region qualify for the NCAA Singles Championship and NCAA Doubles Championship in November.
 
Here are more details for the northwest regionals:
 
ITA Northwest Regional Championships
When: Oct. 11-15
Where: Hellman Tennis Complex and Channing Tennis Courts, Berkeley, Calif.
Watch: Hellman Tennis Complex Live Stream
Draws: https://calbea.rs/3ZSeCqS
ITA Tournament Site: https://calbea.rs/4h0Haok
Admission: Free
 
Poll Position
Five Bears are ranked in the first ITA singles poll of 2024-25 – No. 30 Jessica Alsola, No. 33 Katja Wiersholm, No. 80 Lan Mi, No. 106 Berta Passola Folch and No. 107 Mao Mushika. Three Cal pairs are ranked in doubles – No. 16 Alsola and Mushika, No. 25 Passola Folch and Wiersholm, and No. 79 Mi and freshman Naomi Xu.
 
Bears In The Cal Fall Invitational
Cal closed out its annual fall tournament in style, capturing top-flight titles in singles and doubles on the last day of the Cal Fall Invitational on Sept. 29. Three of the program's youngest players were triumphant, with sophomore Tiziana-Marie Schomburg and freshman Naomi Xu taking the doubles title and freshman Sophie Hernandez winning the singles crown at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
 
The top-seeded Cal duo defeated the second-seeded Iman Khan and Olivia Rook of Saint Mary's 8-5 in the doubles final, while – in the last match of the three-day tournament – Hernandez prevailed 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 over Sacramento State's Madelyn Ferreros in the singles final.
 
The top-flight singles semifinals featured Hernandez taking on the top-seeded Schomburg and the third-seeded Xu playing Ferreros. Hernandez defeated Schomburg 6-4, 6-3, and, in a taut battle on court two, Xu fell to Ferreros 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 to set up the final. Meanwhile in the gold-flight singles semifinals, Cal graduate student Cami Brown fell to Nevada's Petra Janigova 6-0, 6-2.
 
Alsola, Mushika Qualify For NCAA Doubles
The Cal pair of senior Jessica Alsola and sophomore Mao Mushika – playing in their first tournament as a doubles team – reached the doubles semifinals of the recent ITA All-American Championships in Cary, North Carolina, to qualify for the NCAA Doubles Championships. The 16th-ranked Bears defeated Vanderbilt's 29th-ranked Celia-Belle Mohr and Sophia Webster 6-2, 6-2 in the Sept. 27 quarterfinals to advance.
 
In the All-American semifinals, Mushika and Alsola fell to UCLA's 15th-ranked Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle 6-3, 6-2.
 
Last Time At ITA Regionals
Hannah Viller Moeller closed the 2023 ITA Northwest Regional Championships with a flourish when she captured the singles title and – with Mao Mushika – the doubles title at Stanford's Taube Family Tennis Stadium. The Bears defeated teammates Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm 4-6, 6-1, 10-7 in the doubles final, after Viller Moeller dispatched the Cardinal's Connie Ma 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(6) in singles. All four Bears qualified for the ITA National Fall Championships by reaching the doubles final. Viller Moeller also qualified for fall nationals in singles.
 
Brogan Inducted Into ITA Women's Hall Of Fame
For her many contributions to the sport of women's college tennis, former Cal head coach Jan Brogan – who led the program from 1978 to 2007 – was inducted into the ITA Women's Hall of Fame last Saturday in Williamsburg, Virginia. Brogan retired from Cal with a record of 539-223 (.707 winning percentage), which at the time placed her fourth on the NCAA's all-time wins list. She led the Bears to 26 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances and 19 top-10 finishes from 1982. Many of her proteges – including current Cal head coach Amanda Augustus and Christina Fusano Hinds, who introduced Brogan at the induction – attended the ceremony on the campus of William & Mary, where the ITA Women's Hall of Fame is located.
 
"It was really a wonderful evening," Brogan said. "The ceremony was beautiful. I was very happy with it, and the event overall was fantastic and a little overwhelming. It caps off my career as the head coach at Cal."
 
Added Augustus, "It was really special to share the evening with her and the other alums and celebrate all the accomplishments Jan brought not only to Cal but to the ITA and women's tennis in general. She was really a trailblazer as a coach. I was proud to be one of her players and have been proud as the coach to carry on the legacy of the program and build upon it."
 
Next Time
With more opportunities to qualify for the NCAA individual championships on the line, selected Bears will compete in the ITA Conference Masters Championships in San Diego and in the ITA West Sectional Championships in Los Angeles. Both tournaments will run Nov. 7-10.
 
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