Women's Tennis

CMS's Brissett, PP's Zhou Selected as Woman of the Year Nominees

Women's tennis standouts Ella Brissett of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges and Angie Zhou of Pomona-Pitzer Colleges have been selected as the SCIAC's nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year and Division III Commissioners Association Women's Sport Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards.

Both will advance to the next round of regional consideration for the D3CA award and national consideration for Woman of the Year.

Brissett, a biology major with a 3.96 grade-point average also focusing on gender and secuality studies, won two team NCAA Championships with the Athenas. A two-time All-American in doubles and three-time All-SCIAC selection, she also earned the West Region Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award and ITA Ann Lebedeff Leadership Award in addition to making the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America First Team in 2025. Brissett has been very active on campus over her four-year career, serving as founder and president of the Women's Empowerment in Sports Club, a college peer mentor for Women in STEM, Athletics Department Title IX peer leader and SAAC representative as well as volunteering with Elementary School Youth Engagement, House of Ruth and a variety of other organizations. She conducted neurobiology research into degenerative diseases as a Caltech Amgen Scholar, completed a clinical research internship in oral imagining and authored multiple undergraduate research papers.

Zhou, a computer science major with a 3.91 GPA, is a four-time First Team All-American and the 2023 NCAA Championship singles national title winner. She led the Sagehens to a pair of SCIAC championship wins and the 2025 NCAA Championship final. Recently awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, she also is a two-time CSC Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for women's tennis. On campus, Zhou served as team captain, on the organizing team of the Claremont Colleges Hackathon, a computer science teaching assistsant and a p-AI project club member. She volunteered with Refugee Advocacy Network and the Asian American Mentor Program.

Fellow Sagehen Alex Turvey became the conference's first NCAA Woman of the Year last January at the NCAA Convention.
 

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