2026 Liberty League Women's Tennis Tournament

Friday, May 1 - Sunday, May 3, 2026 • Ithaca, N.Y. • Reis Tennis Center (Cornell University)

Live Results • Championship Central

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College women's tennis team has qualified for the Liberty League Tournament for the fifth straight season and will begin postseason play with a first-round matchup against Skidmore College on Friday at 2:15 p.m. at Cornell University's Reis Tennis Center.
 
THE BRACKET: Union (6-11, 4-4 Liberty League) is seeded fifth in this year's tournament, while Skidmore (5-13, 5-3 Liberty League) earned the fourth seed during the regular season. Third-seeded St. Lawrence University (13-4, 7-1 Liberty League) and sixth-seeded William Smith College (8-10, 3-5 Liberty League) will battle in the other first-round matchup. Top-seeded and ITA #51 Vassar College (13-5, 8-0 Liberty League) and second-seeded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (10-6, 7-1 Liberty League) received byes into the semifinals.
 
POSTSEASON HISTORY: The Union women are in the postseason for the fifth time since the start of tournament qualification in 2015. Union is 14-36 all-time in Liberty League Tournament play since 1995, with six main-draw wins to its credit – last year's first-round win over St. Lawrence was the second for the team in the last two years after going over two decades (since 2003) without one. The conference stopped employing a back draw at the event in 2011.

ALL-TIME VS. SKIDMORE: Friday's match will be the 51st all-time meeting on the courts between the two schools, with Skidmore holding a 45-5 advantage in the first 50. The Thoroughbreds have won the last 31 matches dating back to 1996. Last season's tournament semifinal matchup, won by Skidmore by a 4-0 score, was the teams' first postseason meeting since 2001 and just the third ever between the teams.
 
LAST MEETING: Union and Skidmore closed out the fall portion of the schedule back in October, with the Thoroughbreds posting a 5-2 win. Seniors Skylar Semon and Claire Langille both earned singles wins and the Garnet Chargers also took one of the three doubles matches as well, while one other singles match went into a supertiebreaker.
 
BACK TOGETHER: For the first time since 2023 and the third time in program history, both Union women's and men's tennis teams qualified for the Liberty League Tournament in the same season. All three occurrences have happened in the last five years, as both squads previously made the postseason in 2022 and 2023.
 
CONFERENCE HONORS: The Garnet Chargers closed the regular season with a pair of weekly awards from the Liberty League, as seniors Kennedy Alexis and Chara Meidani were named the Doubles Team of the Week and first-year Megan McCusker was recognized for the fourth time this year as Liberty League Rookie of the Week. McCusker's four honors are the most for any Liberty League rookie this season and the most for a Union player in at least 15 years.

SENIOR CLASS: With their win on Saturday against Ithaca, this year's senior class became the winningest class in Union tennis history, having earned 39 wins over their four seasons so far. The group – Kennedy Alexis, Sydney Alphabet, Claire Langille, Chara Meidani and Skylar Semon – are the second class to qualify for the conference tournament in all four seasons and have led the team to the two highest single-season win totals in program annals (13 in 2024-25 and 11 in 2023-24). Individually, the quintet have combined for 371 total wins over their four years, 186 in singles play and 185 in doubles action.
 
FIRST-YEAR FORCE: First-year Megan McCusker leads Union in singles victories with a 15-5 record entering the postseason, including an excellent 9-2 dual-match ledger playing at the third, fourth and fifth flights. She enters the weekend riding a seven-match winning streak and has lost only 24 games over her last 14 sets, all of which she has won during her current stretch of victories.

SCOUTING THE THOROUGHBREDS: Skidmore finds itself in unfamiliar territory this season, as the Thoroughbreds have not been seeded outside the top-two in the Liberty League Tournament since 2016. The team went 0-10 in non-conference play this year, but eight of those losses came to nationally ranked opposition. First-year Ginevra Muratori won the ITA Northeast Regional singles title and teamed with classmate Amelie Gonzalez to earn runner-up honors in doubles play as well during the fall. Muratori brings a record of 13-4 at first singles into the postseason and Gonzalez is 9-7 at the second flight, while the pair are also 10-6 at the top doubles flight.

WHAT'S NEXT: Friday's winner will take on top-seeded Vassar College in the Liberty League semifinals on Saturday at 2:15 p.m. in Ithaca.