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Top Row Dawg · (This post was last modified: 01-09-2025, 07:55 AM by Top Row Dawg.)

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ATHENS, Ga. - Georgia returns to Stegeman Coliseum on Tuesday to host No. #7 Kentucky at 7:00 p.m. in the second of seven consecutive games against top-25 opponents to open SEC play. The Bulldogs are 9-0 at home and have won 11 straight outings at Stegeman dating back to last season, which matches the sixth-longest home winning streak in program history.

ATHENS, Ga. — The Georgia women's tennis team earned the top spot in the ITA Division I Women's Collegiate Preseason Team Rankings, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced Monday. Following a 2024 season highlighted by SEC regular season and tournament titles as well as a run to the NCAA Championship Final, the Bulldogs will begin the 2025 spring season ranked No. 1 after tallying three first-place votes along with the highest combined placements in the preseason coaches poll. Georgia is one of 10 Southeastern Conference programs ranked in the initial top 25, followed by Texas A&M (No. 2), Texas (No. 7), Auburn (No. 12), Oklahoma (No. 16), Tennessee (No. 18), Florida (No. 19), South Carolina (No. 20), Vanderbilt (No. 21), and Alabama (No. 22). The Red and Black will see most of its 2024 roster return headlined by 2024-25 NCAA Singles Champion senior Dasha Vidmanova, who will enter the season ranked No. 1 in the ITA Women's Singles Rankings. Junior Anastasiia Lopata returns for her junior season after finishing as the 2024 NCAA Singles Runner-up while sophomore Aysegul Mert is set for her second season in Athens, coming off a stellar 2024 campaign where she won the NCAA Doubles National Championship alongside Vidmanova. Five Bulldogs head into the 2025 spring season listed in the most recent ITA singles and doubles rankings. In singles, Vidmanova leads the way at No. 1 followed by Lopata coming in at No. 29 rounded out by Guillermina Grant at No. 60. In doubles, Mert and Grant come in at No. 19 followed by the duo of Mert and Hayden Mulberry at No. 43.

Hawaii — Five former Georgia Bulldog golfers rang in the new year on the Kapalua Resort's Plantation Course with The Sentry Tournament of Champions January 2nd-5th. An extremely exclusive event, The Sentry Tournament of Champions hosts a limited field of golfers who have won events on the PGA tour in the previous year. Among these noteworthy competitors were former Bulldogs Sepp Straka, defending Sentry champion Chris Kirk, Russell Henley, Davis Thompson and Brian Harman. With five golfers representing the University of Georgia, UGA boasted the highest number of competitors from a single program at the event this year.