Conference Highlights
Women's Tennis defeated Delaware, Hofstra and tied with JMU 3-3 in 2015
Defeated Hofstra, Towson in 2014
Won the doubles point against W&M and #5 singles in the CAA championships
Post Season Highlights
Good wins against St joseph's, Fordham, UMBC, Lehigh, Villanova in 2015
women's tennis finished 15-3 record which is the program highest winning percentage in the program history.
The women's team was top 10 percent in the country in APR for the sixth straight year.
Tournament Highlights
In fall 2014, 2015 the women's team won multiple singles and doubles flights at the st joseph's, villanova and Quinnipiac invitational.
Honami Yazawa advanced to round of 16 at the ITA regionals
Individual Achievements
Clary Rodriguez earned a national ranking of 106 in the ITA national ranking.
Ryshena Providence earned a national ranking of 117 in the ITA national ranking.
Nicole pivonka earned CAA second team all conference.
Pivonka earned CAA academic award.
Pivonka, Rodriguez, Bowsher and White earned ITA scholar athletes in 2015.
Honami Yazawa earned a regional ranking of 18 in the northeast after advancing to round of 16 at the ITA regionals
Honami earned CAA second team all conference
Clary Rodriguez earned CAA Academic Award
Women's Tennis received the NCAA APR award for seven consecutive times
Women's Tennis earned ITA All Academic
White, Bowsher and Rodriguez earned ITA scholar athlete award
Coaching Achievements
Mehdi Rhazali: born in Rabat Morocco. Graduated from Drexel University in 2011 majoring in Business Administration marketing while competing for the Drexel Dragons, a division I program, As a student athlete Rhazali played in multiple positions from 1-4 singles and 1-3 doubles leading the team as a team captain.
In 2014 Rhazali completed his masters in sport management from Drexel.
Rhazali is entering his fifth season as the Drexel Tennis head tennis coach. Rhazali has lead the teams to the highest winning seasons in the program history. At Drexel, Rhazali has coached the Drexel all timer male and female tennis players, eleven all Colonial Atlantic Association award recipients, coached one ITA Cissy-Leary Sportsmanship player, led two players to the national ranking and one player to the regional ranking. Rhazali also led the women’s team to win the NCAA academic performance-rating award.
The time with the Dragons is not Rhazali’s only coaching experience. He has worked as tennis professional at multiple country clubs in Connecticut and most recently in 2012 at Legacy Youth Tennis and Education, one of twelve certified regional training centers in the United States. His emphasis was on the Maximum Performance athletes, including Legacy's more-than 50 players with sectional and national USTA rankings.
Rhazali is a Professional Tennis Registry certified ( Performance level) coach who has received his USTA high performance certification as well as science level I certification. He is also ITPA certified as a tennis performance trainer and GPTCA, ATP certified international coach.
Rhazali is currently pursuing an MBA in finance from Drexel, married to Rachel Rhazali and resides in Philadelphia
