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Top Row Dawg · 05-19-2025, 12:13 AM

With Love for Uncle John Always!

Woof™ For 16th Best Season in History of UGA Football #6 Final AP Poll (SEC Champs)

WACO, Texas — The No. 1 Georgia women's tennis team (29-3, 13-2 SEC) secured its third NCAA Outdoor National Championship after producing a dominant 4-0 sweep over No. 2 Texas A&M (30-4, 14-1 SEC) in the NCAA title match at the Hurd Tennis Center on Sunday. Georgia earns its third NCAA national championship and first since 2000, bringing in the program's eighth overall national title (five USTA/Indoor Tennis A national titles). Head coach Drake Bernstein becomes the fastest head coach in program history to win an NCAA, ITA, SEC Tournament and SEC regular season title in program history (62 matches coached through two seasons). Senior Dasha Vidmanova became the third women's tennis player to win an NCAA team, singles and doubles national championship during her collegiate career. Georgia finishes the season undefeated in tournament-style competition this spring, producing a 13-0 record between winning the 2025 ITA National Team Indoor Championships (four wins), the 2025 SEC Tournament (three wins) and the NCAA Tournament (six wins). The Bulldogs earned their 19th sweep of the season and fifth of the NCAA Tournament, outscoring opponents 24-1 through six rounds while also winning seven of nine postseason matches via sweep. Georgia improves to 23-6 all-time against Texas A&M, avenging an NCAA Championship loss in the 2024 title match. The Bulldogs are now 3-1 this season against the Aggies, earning all three wins in a tournament final (ITA National Team Indoors, SEC Tournament and NCAA Championships).

The Bulldogs opened the match winning doubles point for the 28th time this season. On court two, the tandem of #68 Guillermina Grant and Anastasiia Lopata struck first as they cruised past Daria Smetannikov and Lexington Reed, 6-2. With courts one and three racing for the clinch, the duo of Aysegul Mert and Hayden Mulberry came through late to hold off Nicole Khirin and Lucciana Perez for a 7-5 victory to put the Bulldogs on the board first. In singles, the battle of the top 2 ITA ranked singles players came to a result as #2 Dasha Vidmanova was stellar on the day against #1 Mary Stoiana, earning a 6-4, 6-4 victory in straight sets to double Georgia's lead at 2-0. Despite dropping a first set, #17 Lopata bounced back in tremendous fashion to flip the match and secure a 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory over #13 Nicole Khirin to put the Bulldogs one point away from a title. With battle across all four remaining courts in play, Sofia Rojas delivered the finishing blow to Texas A&M's comeback bid as she also came back from a set down to defeat Reed, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, on court six for the sweep and the title-clinching victory.

Head coach
Drake Bernstein
Opening Statement:

"This team, this group of seniors that have put so much time into the last four years here at Georgia have steadily gotten better. They went from a Round of 16 loss to a semifinal loss to a final loss and then the last match they ever play in red and black is the national championship. They get to call themselves national champions at the University of Georgia for the rest of their life. Something that I'm really proud of them for doing. This one here [Dasha Vidmanova] has a doubles title, a singles title and now a team title. It's complete and what she was up against the whole year, the whole narrative of John Parsons saying, 'well the only thing left to do is a team national championship' and to her credit and really the rest of the entire team's credit, it was to stay focused on today. It's fantastic to see the culmination of that work and the way it did tonight. Lopata over there down a set 6-0 tonight. I don't think anybody in red and black was all that concerned about it. It just says a lot about the character of this team. Playing for something bigger than themselves, the community, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, home of college tennis."
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DURHAM, N.C. – The Georgia softball team defeated 14th-seeded Duke to punch its ticket to the program's 14th Super Regional appearance, its third straight and fourth in the last five seasons. The Blue Devils beat Georgia 8-1 in Game 6 of the regional to force a winner-take-all Game 7. Down 2-1 in the top of the seventh, Georgia tied the game to force extra innings. A three-run eighth was enough to lift the Bulldogs past the Ble Devils, 5-2. Georgia will travel to (3) Florida for the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament. The Super Regional schedule will be announced at the conclusion of all Regionals.

CARY, N.C. – University of Georgia senior Robbie Burnett has been named a semifinalist for the annual Golden Spikes Award, presented by Chinook Seedery, USA Baseball announced Sunday. Burnett ranks as one of the nation's best players this season in helping fourth-ranked Georgia to a 42-14 mark. The Franklinton, N.C. native has a team-high 20 home runs, 66 RBI, 17 stolen bases and .732 slugging percentage to go with a .318 batting average in 53 games. In SEC action, he batted .300 with eight home runs and 30 RBI. Burnett has made 52 starts this season including at all three outfield spots plus second base and designated hitter. Burnett was one of 10 student-athletes that played their way onto the semifinalist list after not appearing on a watch list earlier this year. There are 25 semifinalists this season. This marks the second straight year the Bulldogs have had a semifinalist for this prestigious award that goes to the nation's top amateur baseball player in the nation. In 2024, Charlie Condon became Georgia's first winner of the Golden Spikes Award after a record-setting season. Following a first round bye at the SEC Tournament, the Bulldogs return to action Wednesday afternoon around 2 p.m. ET, May 21 in Hoover, Ala. They will play the winner of the Oklahoma/Kentucky game as they are set to square off in Tuesday's first round.

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