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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

2024-25 Women's Tennis Roster

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Ella Brissett

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Houston, TX
  • High School Kinkaid School
  • College Claremont McKenna

Biography

At CMS
Career Record :
142-54 (68-29 singles, 74-25 doubles)

2024-25 (Senior)
All-America (Doubles) ... ITA Ann Lebedeff Award Winner ... ITA Arthur Ashe Leadership Award Winner ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... SCIAC Character Award Winner ... NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee ... First-Team Academic All-America
... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... ITA Scholar-Athlete ... Reached the semifinals of the ITA Cup Doubles Championship with Alisha Chulani, earning All-America honors ... Had a key three-set win in a 4-3 victory over Emory ... Earned a three-set win in a victory against WashU, the eventual national champions. 

2023-24 (Junior)
All-America (Doubles) ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Had a 10-10 record in singles and a 22-11 record in doubles ... Won the ITA West Region Doubles Championship with Lindsay Eisenman, capturing All-America honors ... Had a 7-6, 6-1 win over Chicago in the finals of the ITA Indoor Championship ... Also had a 6-2, 6-2 win over Carnegie Mellon in the ITA Indoor Quarterfinals ... Part of an 8-2 doubles win in the NCAA Division III Semifinals.  

2022-23 (Sophomore)
Second-Team All-SCIAC
... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Had a 24-4 record in singles and a 26-5 record in doubles ... Earned the clinching win in a 5-4 victory over Pomona-Pitzer in the NCAA Regional Finals, coming back from 3-1 down (and 40-15) for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win ... Also had a 6-4, 6-1 win over Pomona-Pitzer in the SCIAC Championship ... Had a 16-match win streak in singles and closed out the year on a 19-match win streak in doubles, including 7-0 in the postseason with Lindsay Eisenman ... Brissett and Eisenman came back from 6-4 down to defeat Pomona-Pitzer 8-6 in the NCAA Regional Finals with CMS down 2-0 to help swing the momentum of the match.   

2021-22 (First-Year)
All-SCIAC second team honors ... Earned SCIAC Women's Tennis Athlete of the Week honors
... Had a 24-3 record in singles and 7-1 record in doubles for an Athenas squad that captured the second national title in program history with a 5-1 win over Chicago on May 25 ... Picked up the clincher at No. 4 singles, with a 6-4, 6-3 win to close out the national championship over Chicago ... Had a 6-0, 6-0 win in the NCAA Semifinals over Venia Yeung of Wesleyan, who was the national singles runner-up in 2019 ... Earned a 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 4 to put the Athenas ahead 4-0 over Redlands in the SCIAC Semifinals... Twice picked up singles wins over the No. 2 ranked team in the country at the time (Emory, Pomona-Pitzer).

Prior to CMS
Attended The Kinkaid School in Houston, Texas, where she was a member of the tennis team ... Earned All-SPC honors all four years ... Helped Kincaid to two state championships as a sophomore and senior ... Academic accolades included a National Spanish Exam Bronze Award and a NASA High School Aerospace Scholar honor ... Extracurricular activities included serving as an Upper School to Middle School Peer Mentor, a Senior to Freshman Peer Mentor, a Girl Scouts Gold, Silver and Bronze Award recipient, and volunteering with the Jack and Jill of America Organization, the Kinkaid Youth Against Cancer Club, and as a Spanish Translation Assistant at Casa el Buen Samaritano Medical Clinic.

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna, where she majors in biology. 


Ella Brissett posed shot

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior