Lindsay Hagerman ’05 is among the most decorated athletes in Washington and Lee history.
Hagerman was a four-year letterwinner for the women’s tennis team and she served as a team captain for her senior season. She was a three-time First Team All-ODAC selection in both singles and doubles, earning the ODAC Player of the Year Award twice. She finished her career as the school’s all-time wins leader in both singles (117-17) and doubles (108-17) and was a seven-time All-American, along with being named a finalist for the Honda Award, the NCAA Walter Byers Scholarship and the NCAA Woman of the Year Award during her senior year. She also helped lead the Generals to a 92-11 overall record, four ODAC Championships and four trips to the NCAA Championship Semifinals.
It was evident that Hagerman was going to have a special career from the very beginning as she played No. 1 singles and No. 2 doubles as a first-year, producing a 23-7 singles record and a 23-4 doubles mark in helping lead W&L to a third-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championship. She was selected for the NCAA Singles Championship, earning All-America honors and being named the ITA Atlantic South Region and Co-National Rookie of the Year. She also received the W&L Outstanding First-Year Female Athlete Award.
As a sophomore, Hagerman went 26-4 in singles and set a school record by going 30-2 in doubles as the Generals finished as the NCAA Division III runner-up team. She was an All-American in both singles and doubles after advancing to the semifinals of both the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships.
Hagerman's junior year resulted in a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Team Championship. Individually, she went 31-5 in singles and 29-7 in doubles and again went to the semifinals of the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship earning All-America honors in both.
Hagerman's senior campaign was simply dominant. She set the school record for singles wins in a season, finishing 37-1 and winning the 2004 ITA Division III Singles Championship and the 2005 NCAA Division III Singles Championship. In doubles, she went 26-5 and again advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Championship as the Generals again finished as the team runner-up. She earned two more All-America citations and was honored as the 2005 Division III National Senior Player of the Year and a 2005 ITA All-Star.
A champion in the classroom as well, Hagerman was a two-time ODAC Women’s Tennis Scholar-Athlete of the Year and she received the 2005 Marjorie Berkeley Award as the top female scholar-athlete in the ODAC. She also received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and was a 2004 CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American selection.
Hagerman capped her fine career by receiving the 2005 Pres Brown Award as the most valuable senior female athlete at W&L.
