Aboubakare Named ITA East Regional Rookie of the Year
5/12/08
Brown women's tennis standout Bianca Aboubakare (Orange, CA) has been named the 2008 ITA East Regional Rookie of the Year. Aboubakare adds this honor to an impressive list that includes Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Brown's Outstanding First Year Female Athlete. (MORE) 5/1/08
Aboubakare in Named Unanimous Ivy League Rookie of the Year
Brown women's tennis standout Bianca Aboubakare (Orange, CA) has been unanimously named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in a vote by the League's eight coaches. In addition to earning Rookie of the Year honors, Aboubakare was one of four players to earn First Team All-Ivy unanimously, and half of the only doubles pair, joining with freshman Marisa Schonfeld (Washington, DC), to earn First Team All-Ivy unanimously. She and Yale's Janet Kim, the Ivy Player of the Year, were the only two players in the Ivy League to earn First Team All-Ivy honors in both singles and doubles. Since the Ivy League began honoring outstanding athletes with Player and Rookie of the Year honors in 1995, Aboubakare is Brown's first-ever Rookie of the Year and the first player since Trishna Patel '98 (1997 Player of the Year) to earn one of the two major awards. (MORE) 4/21/08
Bears Close Season with 4-3 Victory over Harvard
The Brown women's tennis team (11-9, 2-5) reversed its fortunes in 4-3 matches on Sunday afternoon, posting a 4-3 victory over Harvard to close out the 2008 season. The win gives the Bears their second Ivy victory of the year and is also the first 4-3 Ivy win for the year, after dropping four 4-3 decisions during the Ivy season. Freshman Bianca Aboubakare (Orange, CA) closed out her stellar rookie season by winning at #1 doubles and #1 singles to finish the year with a 28-6 singles record, a 20-12 doubles record, and a 48-18 overall mark. Her 28 singles wins is second all-time, her 20 doubles wins is sixth all-time, while her 48 combined wins is fourth all-time. (MORE)

4/19/08
Bears Fall to Dartmouth, 4-3 4/13/08
Bears Edged by Cornell, 4-3; Sweep Columbia to earn Weekend Split 4/5/08
Bears Fall to #63 Penn, 5-2 4/4/08
Princeton Edges Bears, 4-3 3/31/08
Bears Narrowly Fall to Yale, 4-3, in Ivy Opener