LEXINGTON, Va. – The Old Dominion Athletic Conference announced the seedings for the upcoming ODAC Women's Tennis Championship and Washington and Lee has claimed the top seed.
 
W&L has won 19 straight conference championships and 31 ODAC crowns in the last 33 years. Only Sweet Briar (1990) and Hollins (2002) have claimed an ODAC title since the Generals' first championship in 1989.
 
This year's tournament will be contested in Lexington, as W&L is the host site for the championship event. The Generals (15-6, 10-0 ODAC) will open the tournament with a quarterfinal matchup against the eighth-seeded Virginia Wesleyan Marlins (5-8, 4-6 ODAC) on Tuesday at 3:00 pm. Should W&L win, the Generals would then face the winner of the quarterfinal between fourth-seeded Randolph-Macon (15-2, 8-2 ODAC) and fifth-seeded Shenandoah (10-8, 7-3 ODAC) on Saturday at 8:30 am. The championship match will be held on Sunday at 10:00 am.
 
The Generals' quarterfinal match against Virginia Wesleyan marks a rematch of the teams' April 2 meeting in Virginia Beach, when the Generals claimed a 9-0 victory. W&L won all 10 ODAC matches this season, and only dropped individual matches in a 7-2 win over Sweet Briar on March 15. Six of the Generals' nine other ODAC contests were 9-0 victories, with a 6-0 win over Hollins mixed in, as well as 7-2 wins over Bridgewater and Shenandoah in which W&L forfeited No. 3 doubles and No. 6 singles.
 
Six different Generals have totaled double-digit wins in singles play this season, led by reigning ODAC Player of the Year Gabi Moss (Scottsdale, Ariz. / Chaparral). Moss is 17-4 across all singles matches this season, and she has played 12 of her 16 dual matches at the No. 2 position. Moss is 9-3 at No. 2 with a 4-0 mark at No. 1.
 
Junior Izzy Koziol (Wilton, Conn. / Wilton) comes in next with a 16-7 singles record this season and a team-best 8-0 record from conference dual matches. Koziol figures to slot in at No. 3 singles, with 13-of-19 dual matches played at No. 3, but she has also logged a 6-0 mark at No. 2. First-year Lauren Long (Carmel, Ind. / Park Tudor) has excelled in her first collegiate tennis season with a 15-3 overall record and a 13-2 mark from the No. 1 position. Long has played all her dual singles matches from the top spot, and she enters tournament play on an 11-match winning streak in singles.
 
First-years Riho Iijima (Portland, Ore. / Westview) and Grace Lorenz (Oklahoma City, Okla. / Epic Charter Schools) have also packed a punch with a combined 25-8 singles record. Iijima's 13-2 record this season gives her a team-best 0.867 winning percentage among all players with 10 or more matches played, and she has mixed a 12-1 dual record across singles positions 3-6, with highs of 4-0 coming out of No. 3 and No. 6. Lorenz is 12-6 this season and has most appeared out of the No. 4 spot, but she has added a combined 5-0 record across the top three positions.
 
Junior Margaret Carlton (Matthews, N.C. / Charlotte Christian) rounds out the six 10-win Generals with an 11-4 record across 15 matches this season. She has played mostly out of the No. 6 position, going 5-1, and she has also split four matches at No. 5.
 
W&L has trotted out two doubles tandems this season at No. 1 to cover 20 matches total. Long has been part of both combinations and started the season going 5-5 with Carlton. Most recently, Long has paired with Moss and the two have won 7-of-8 matches together this season. Long's 17-9 total doubles record leads all Generals.
 
The No. 2 doubles position has been covered most often by Carlton and Koziol, who own a 4-3 record as a pair. Carlton has a 14-11 overall doubles record this season, while Koziol totes a 10-7 record. Lorenz and Iijima are the only pairing to make more than three appearances at No. 3 this season, and they are 5-3 together. Lorenz has won 9-of-14 doubles matches this season and Iijima has claimed 11 wins in 18 matches.
 
The W&L quarterfinal match against Virginia Wesleyan, as well as all semifinal and championship matches, will feature live scoring. More information about the 2023 ODAC Women's Tennis Championship can be found on the ODAC Championship site.