SIUE (11-1, 0-0 OVC) vs. Milwaukee (5-8, 0-0 Horizon)         Sunday, Mar. 20  |  9:00 a.m. CT  |  Edwardsville, Ill.
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LAST TIME OUT
The Cougars continued their outstanding run of form in Orlando, Florida, as the Cougars notched a pair of impressive neutral-site victories last week. SIUE began their Orlando trip with a 4-3 win over perennial Big South Conference power Radford, before closing out the day with a commanding 5-1 win over Sacred Heart. 

TRIPLE DOUBLES
SIUE's potent doubles play was recognized as the best in the OVC for two consecutive weeks to start the season, as Caitlyn Sporing and Melissa Vizcardo's impressive efforts garnered the duo's first OVC Doubles Team of the Week honors for the week of February 21. This award followed the announcement, which saw Vanessa Reinicke and Jordan Schifano earn Doubles Team of the Week the week prior. And this past week, the team of Jill Lambrechts and Maria Thibault became the third-different SIUE doubles team to claim OVC Doubles Team of the Week honors. The Cougars have won three of the first four Doubles Team of the Week honors awarded by the OVC this season, becoming the first program in league history to accomplish the feat.

RECORDS WERE MADE TO BE SET
Following a pair of outstanding performances in singles and doubles play last weekend, SIUE's Jill Lambrechts became the first student-athlete in the history of the Ohio Valley Conference to claim both Singles Player of the Week and Doubles Team of the Week honors. 

Lambrechts has come into her own as a truly dominant force on the singles court. The Beerse, Belgium, native is currently riding a 10-match winning streak, during which she has not dropped a single set. Lambrechts continued her run of form this past week in Orlando with two straight-set victories on the No. 2 court, first in a 6-4, 6-0 win over Radford before notching a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Sacred Heart. This was not Lambrechts' first Singles Player of the Week honor this season, as she also claimed the award for the week of February 21, 2022.
 
CONSISTENT IMPROVEMENT
Since assuming the helm of the SIUE tennis program, Head Coach Adam Albertsen has seen the Cougars improve at a pace matched by few other programs in Division I tennis. 

Albertsen oversaw a six-win increase during his first season, followed by a three-win improvement in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 campaign. In the 2021 spring season, the Cougars reached double-digit wins for the first time since 2016. And now in his fourth season in Edwardsville, the program has nearly doubled its win total from his first season, reaching 11 wins with eight matches remaining on the Cougars' schedule. 

HISTORY MADE
The Cougars put together their best start in six seasons and their second-best start in the program's Division I era with nine consecutive wins to begin the 2022 season. 

1. 2016-17 (21-0)
2. 2021-22 (9-0)
3. 2020-21 (3-0)
   2011-12 (3-0)

SCOUTING THE PANTHERS
The Milwaukee Panthers enter Sunday morning's contest at 5-8 overall and bring a two-match win streak to Edwardsville. The streak began with a 4-3 road win over Chicago State and followed that up with a 7-0 win over Wisconsin-Whitewater (D-III) last Sunday. Milwaukee's trip to SIUE will mark the final leg of an eight-match road trip for the Panthers.

Common opponents between SIUE and Milwaukee include UNI (Milwaukee lost 4-3, SIUE won 6-1) and Chicago State (MKE won 4-3, SIUE won 5-2). 

Milwaukee was picked to finish fourth in the seven-team Horizon League and are led by senior Mayya Perova, who brings a 10-match singles win streak into a highly-anticipated No. 2 court fixture against Lambrechts.