Cal Winter Invite
Women's Tennis Opens Spring Season at Cal Winter Invite
1/15/2026 7:30:00 PM | Women's Tennis
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The first serve of the 2026 spring season for the Cal Poly women’s tennis team takes place this Friday through Sunday when the Mustangs compete in the Cal Winter Invite.
The annual three-day tournament to kick off the spring will see the Mustangs battle players from Cal, Stanford and Saint Mary’s in singles and doubles play. Stanford is ranked No. 9 in the country and Cal 15th in the ITA Preseason Poll.
Some of the matches throughout the event at the Hellman Tennis Complex can be watched live on PlaySight. Action gets underway at 1 p.m. Friday.
This spring under the leadership of Williams, Cal Poly is looking to build off yet another sensational season for the program. In 2025, the Mustangs earned a spot in the Big West Championship match for a program-record fifth consecutive season. Cal Poly finished with an impressive 19-5 record, the second most wins in a season in the program's Division I history, the fifth most all-time and the most since going 20-7 in 2003. The Mustangs also achieved a national ranking of 38th during the season, tied for the second highest ranking in the program’s history and the best in 14 years. Cal Poly ended the year ranked No. 59 in the final ITA poll, the team’s third highest ranking to end a season and best since 2011.
Cal Poly returns seven players from last year’s team — seniors Kennedy Buntrock, Sarah MacCallum, and Alexandra Ozerets, redshirt junior Amy Leather, junior Natalie Lynch and sophomore Jessica MacCallum. The Mustangs have four newcomers this season — junior Candela Aparisi (a transfer from Oregon) and freshmen Tia Bonita Jakupovic-Kljako, Aspen Chung and Olivia Mlouk.
The star-studded core of four returning 2025 All-Big West honorees is highlighted by Buntrock (All-Big West First Team, doubles) and Jessica MacCallum, who earned All-Big West Honorable Mention recognition in doubles and posted a remarkable 19-3 dual singles record a year ago.
The Mustangs are looking to build off a strong fall season that saw Buntrock and Lynch reach the championship match in doubles play at the Big West Fall Tournament, and Aparisi make it to the semifinals in singles action.
