ORLANDO, Fla.-- The Penn State women's tennis team will continue its spring break trip down to the Sunshine State to take on Norfolk State and VCU. The Nittany Lions will finish out their nonconference schedule with these two matches.
The Nittany Lions (7-3, 1-0 B1G) will take on Norfolk State (0-0) on Tuesday, March 5 at Sanlando Park in Orlando, Fla. at 11:30 a.m. The match against VCU (9-2, 1-0 A10) will be on Thursday, March 7 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando Fla. at 12 p.m.
"It will be nice to train outdoors this week in Orlando," said head coach Chris Cagle. "We added Norfolk State recently to our schedule so it will be good to get two matches while we are in Florida. Once again, hope we can get Penn Staters that we may not normally see as much to come out for the matches this week!"
FOLLOW ALONG
There will be no live stats for the match against Norfolk State, follow along on twitter, @PennStateWTEN for updates.
The match against VCU at the USTA National Campus will have live scoring here and a live stream here.
LAST TIME OUT
Penn State lost a hard fought match against No. 42 Columbia, 4-2. Gabby O'Gorman (Gunnedah, N.S. Wales, Australia) and Chelsea Sawyer (Clemmons, N.C.) recorded singles wins against Columbia.
Samantha Smith (Cary, N.C.) had her match go unfinished against Columbia, but is one singles win away from eclipsing 50 career singles wins.
SCOUTING THE SPARTANS
Penn State will meet Norfolk State for the first time in program history. Norfolk State will be opening its spring season against the Nittany Lions.
The Spartans bring in four new players as they begin their spring season. Five members return from last year's roster that went 4-10.
A LOOK INSIDE THE RAMS
VCU comes in riding a seven match win streak. The Rams are led in singles by No. 68 Paola Delgado, who owns a perfect singles record.
VCU's only loses on the season came at the ITA National Indoor Tournament to North Carolina and Michigan State.
The last time Penn State met VCU was in the 2017 season, where the Nittany Lions fell 4-3.
O'WOW, O'GORMAN
O'Gorman is ranked No. 98 in singles in the ITA Division I Women's Tennis Singles Rankings.
O'Gorman is 8-2 at No. 1 singles with two wins over ranked opponents.
UP NEXT
Penn State will wrap up its road games with a match at No. 14 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, March 17 at 12 p.m.
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