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Big Ten CommunicationsPublished: 3/27/2024, Last updated: 3/28/2024
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Iowa Earns Women’s Tennis Weekly Award

Hawkeyes’ Schmidt selected as this week’s honorees

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Player of the Week 

Marisa Schmidt, Iowa  

Jr. – Karlsruhe, Germany – Major: Accounting

  • Extended her singles winning streak to nine straight matches with a straight set victory over No. 88 Justine Leong of Northwestern  

  • Earned a victory over McKenna Schaefbauer of Illinois, 6-3, 7-6 (3), helping the Hawkeyes to a 4-2 win over Illinois  

  • Owns a team best 10-4 singles record, including a 9-0 mark at No. 2 singles  

  • Earns the first weekly honor of her career  

  • Last Iowa Player of the Week: Alexa Noel (April 20, 2021)  

2024 Big Ten Women’s Tennis Honorees 

Jan. 17      Kari Miller, MICH 

Jan. 24          Julia Fliegner, MICH 

Jan. 31      Irina Cantos Siemers, OSU 

Feb. 7        Irina Cantos Siemers, OSU 

Feb. 14      Piper Charney, MICH 

Feb. 21     Kasia Treiber, ILL 

Feb. 28      Gala Mesochoritou, MICH 

March 6         Selma Cadar, MD 

March 13       Julia Fliegner, MICH/Aiva Schmitz, MINN 

March 20       Sydney Pratt, NU 

March 27       Marisa Schmidt, IOWA