Cal Winter Invite
Women's Tennis Heads to Berkeley to Open Spring Season
1/9/2025 10:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — For the fourth consecutive year, the Cal Poly women’s tennis will open its spring season at the annual Cal Winter Invitational this Friday through Sunday in Berkeley.
The Mustangs are set to battle players from Saint Mary’s and host Cal in singles and doubles competition in the three-day tournament held at the Hellman Tennis Complex and Channing Tennis Courts. Play will start at 10:30 a.m. each day and a livestream is available for any matches played on the courts at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
Cal Poly wrapped up its fall season on Nov. 8-10 by hosting its first ever fall tournament, the Cal Poly Invitational.
This spring, the Mustangs are hoping to build off one of its most successful seasons in program history under third-year head coach Ellie Edles Williams. Last year, the Mustangs charged through the conference tournament as the No. 5 seed to capture their second Big West Championship in program history and first since 2003. The triumph allowed Cal Poly to punch its ticket to the NCAA Championships for the third time in school history and first time since 2011.
Cal Poly returns eight of its 10 players from last year’s team that finished the season ranked No. 68 in the country and fell to No. 11 seed USC 4-0 in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. A pair of All-Big West honorees from 2024 are back in senior Peyton Dunkle (First Team singles & doubles) and senior Romane Mosse (Second Team singles). Senior Eliza Bates, juniors Kennedy Buntrock, Sarah MacCallum and Alexandra Ozerets, redshirt sophomore Amy Leather and sophomore Natalie Lynch make up the rest of Cal Poly’s returners. Freshmen Jessica MacCallum and Anushree Shekhera are the Mustangs’ two newcomers this season.
Following the Cal Winter Invitational, Cal Poly opens the dual portion of its season when they travel to Tucson to take on Northern Arizona in a neutral-site match on Jan. 19 and Arizona on Jan. 20.
