Eastern Michigan Athletics
Camila Belassi Added as Assistant Coach for Women's Tennis
8/19/2010 12:26:17 PM | Tennis
Ryan Ray: "I'm very confident she can help guide our team in the right direction..."
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) -- Eastern Michigan University Head Women's Tennis Coach Ryan Ray announced today, Aug. 19, the hiring of Camila Belassi as an assistant coach.
Belassi brings four years of playing experience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as an array of experience she garnered in her home country of Uruguay.
While at Colorado, Belassi was named to the All-Big XII doubles team in consecutive years (2008-09). She also closed her career ranked seventh overall in career doubles victories with 61 and 21st in career singles wins with 68. Her 129 combined wins were the 14th most for anyone in the program's history. In her four years, Belassi tallied 20 singles wins and 20 doubles wins in conference play, good for the 11th and 10th best win totals in school history, respectively. Along the way she won an impressive 49 career singles matches. For her efforts, she also earned the CU Athlete of the Week award.
Prior to her time at CU, Belassi was ranked No. 1 in four age groups (Under 12, 14, 16, 18) and ranked No. 7 in South America in 2002 and 2004. She was a member of the Uruguayan tennis team for eight straight years and a member of the Uruguayan Federation Cup team in 2004 and 2005. She also played on the 2003 Junior Federation Cup team in Germany, the 2004 South American champion in Chile (COSAT, in all the countries of South America) and advanced to a pair of semifinal tournaments in Uruguay and Brazil.
In the classroom, Belassi also excelled, earning her degree in May 2010 in economics with a minor in Italian. She was an All-Big 12 Academic selection each year from 2007-2010 and made the Commissioners Honor Roll on four different occasions. Also of note, Belassi was one of only four CU student-athletes nominated for the May 2009 NCAA Student-Athlete Development Conference in Orlando, Fla.
"I'm excited to have Camila join our tennis coaching staff,” said Ray. “She had a very successful playing career at the University of Colorado and I'm very confident she can help guide our team in the right direction."
The women's tennis team opens its fall season at the 20th Annual William and Mary Women's Tennis Invitational, Sept. 10-12, in Willamsburg, Va.
Belassi brings four years of playing experience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as an array of experience she garnered in her home country of Uruguay.
While at Colorado, Belassi was named to the All-Big XII doubles team in consecutive years (2008-09). She also closed her career ranked seventh overall in career doubles victories with 61 and 21st in career singles wins with 68. Her 129 combined wins were the 14th most for anyone in the program's history. In her four years, Belassi tallied 20 singles wins and 20 doubles wins in conference play, good for the 11th and 10th best win totals in school history, respectively. Along the way she won an impressive 49 career singles matches. For her efforts, she also earned the CU Athlete of the Week award.
Prior to her time at CU, Belassi was ranked No. 1 in four age groups (Under 12, 14, 16, 18) and ranked No. 7 in South America in 2002 and 2004. She was a member of the Uruguayan tennis team for eight straight years and a member of the Uruguayan Federation Cup team in 2004 and 2005. She also played on the 2003 Junior Federation Cup team in Germany, the 2004 South American champion in Chile (COSAT, in all the countries of South America) and advanced to a pair of semifinal tournaments in Uruguay and Brazil.
In the classroom, Belassi also excelled, earning her degree in May 2010 in economics with a minor in Italian. She was an All-Big 12 Academic selection each year from 2007-2010 and made the Commissioners Honor Roll on four different occasions. Also of note, Belassi was one of only four CU student-athletes nominated for the May 2009 NCAA Student-Athlete Development Conference in Orlando, Fla.
"I'm excited to have Camila join our tennis coaching staff,” said Ray. “She had a very successful playing career at the University of Colorado and I'm very confident she can help guide our team in the right direction."
The women's tennis team opens its fall season at the 20th Annual William and Mary Women's Tennis Invitational, Sept. 10-12, in Willamsburg, Va.
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