2024-25 Women's Tennis News

Men, women named CCAC Champions of Character Teams

May 14, 2025

Both the St. Ambrose men's and women's teams were recognized by the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) as the league announced its postseason awards.

Three Bees named to CSC Academic All-District Teams

May 13, 2025

Paige Owens, Jenna Smithmeyer and Miguel Sampaio were named to the 2024-25 Academic All-District NAIA Tennis Team as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC).

Spring All-Academic selections released by the CCAC

April 30, 2025

The Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced the spring sports All-Academic Teams earlier today. A total of 68 Bees were named to the All-Academic Teams this winter (9 baseball, 4 men's golf, 3 women's golf, 8 softball, 1 men's tennis, 6 women's tennis, 17 men's track and field, 13 women's track and field, and 7 men's volleyball). The St. Ambrose and St. Xavier women's golf teams led the CCAC in the number of All-Academic student-athletes with three student-athletes. Danny Molony, Kylee Claypool, and Ryleigh Warden held a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA.

Fighting Bees named as NAIA Scholar-Athletes

April 23, 2025

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2025 Daktroncis NAIA Scholar-Athletes awards earlier today. Of the winter student-athletes at St. Ambrose, 66 (3 men's basketball, 4 women's basketball, 6 competitive cheer, 11 competitive dance, 25 men's swimming and diving, 12 women's swimming and diving, and 5 men's wrestling) were named NAIA Scholar-Athletes.

Season ends in CCAC Tournament semifinals

April 23, 2025

St. Ambrose saw its season come to an end with a competitive 4-2 loss to Olivet Nazarene in the semifinal round of the CCAC Tournament in Bourbonnais, Ill., Wednesday.

Bees take advantage of forfeits to defeat Eagles

April 12, 2025

Thanks to three singles forfeits and a pair of doubles forfeits, St. Ambrose had no problem taking down Judson 5-2 Saturday afternoon at the Davenport West tennis courts.

Women win, men fall at Grand View

April 11, 2025

St. Ambrose split duals at Grand View Friday with the women winning 6-1 and the men falling 5-2 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Bees rally with late singles wins to defeat Fighting Saints

April 09, 2025

Trailing 3-2 with the final two singles matches in progress, Jenna Smithmeyer and Yeva Shershan came through for the Bees.

St. Ambrose earns 7-0 victory over MSOE

April 06, 2025

St. Ambrose dominated singles play in picking up a 7-0 dual win at MSOE Sunday afternoon. The Bees won all six singles matches in straight sets, losing just 10 total games.

SAU drops CCAC opener to Olivet Nazarene

April 04, 2025

The men's and women's tennis teams opened CCAC play by hosting Olivet Nazarene at the Quad-City Tennis Club in Moline, Ill., Friday afternoon.

SAU gets spring-opening win over Simpson

March 07, 2025

St. Ambrose got its spring season off to a fast start by rolling past Simpson 6-1 Friday afternoon at the Quad-City Tennis Club in Moline, Ill.

Men's Tennis grabs Team of the Month; Colgan and Smithmeyer earn Male and Female Athlete of the Month

October 01, 2024

Caleb Colgan (eSports) and Jenna Smithmeyer (women's tennis) are honored as the September Fighting Bees Male and Female Athlete of the Month, selected by the Sports Information Department. The St. Ambrose Men's Tennis team were also selected based on their dominant September performance.