This Week in Wake Forest Women’s Athletics – Presented by Truist (Oct. 21-27)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truist, a longstanding partner of Wake Forest University who is An Official Banking Partner of Wake Forest Athletics and the Presenting Partner of Wake Forest Women's Athletics brings Deacon Nation this weekly update from the Demon Deacons women's programs:

Women's Soccer:
- Behind a 78th-minute winner from junior forward Caiya Hanks, the No. 2-ranked Wake Forest women's soccer team notched its third-consecutive win with a 2-1 result at SMU Saturday night at Washburne Stadium.
  - The Demon Deacons opened the scoring right out of the halftime break, as great team play set up senior midfielder Emily Colton in the box, who took a phenomenal touch to send a defender and fired it past the keeper for her sixth goal of the season.
  - After the Mustangs equalized in the 56th minute, Wake Forest took the lead for good on Hanks' strike 22 minutes later.
- Wake Forest will now prepare for a road clash with Pitt on Thursday, Oct. 24 before returning home to host No. 1 Duke at Spry Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 27.
Field Hockey:
- Coming off a hard-fought overtime victory where freshman Lauren Storey scored the winner just 30 seconds into the extra period, the Deacs head to California this weekend for a pair of ACC matches.
  - The Demon Deacons will first match up with Stanford on Friday evening before traveling over to Berkeley to face Cal on Sunday afternoon.
Volleyball:
- Wake Forest will continue road action for this weekend's upcoming slate, first traveling to Clemson to face the Tigers on Friday evening at 6 p.m.
  - Sunday afternoon will see the Deacs match up with No. 17 Georgia Tech inside O'Keefe Gymnasium at 1 p.m.
    - The match versus the Yellow Jackets will be Wake Forest's third outing versus a nationally-ranked opponent in fall 2024.
- The Deacons hold an 11-8 overall record and are 3-5 in conference play.
  - This past weekend, the team traveled to Louisville and Notre Dame, notching a 3-0 match sweep over the latter.
    - Sunday was Wake Forest's first win at Notre Dame since Oct. 18, 2015.
- Wake Forest has jumped back into the ACC's top five for blocks as a team, currently ranked fifth (2.63/set). Nationally, the Deacons rank 29th in their collective blocks-per-set average.
Cross Country:
- At the Wisconsin Pre-Nationals, Angelina Perez (20:13.1) and Brooke Wilson (20:18.6) took 49th and 59th place out of 250 performers. It marked a new career-best for Perez.
  - Last week's ACC Performer of the Week, Grace Wassell, garnered a personal-best finish of 21:14.2.
- The squad will now prepare for the ACC Championships taking place on Friday, Nov. 1 in Cary, N.C.
Women's Tennis:
- The Demon Deacons returned to their fall schedule over the past weekend, competing at the ITA Carolina Regional.
- Both the doubles teams of junior Nevena Carton and freshman Kady Tannenbaum, as well as graduate student Anna Zhang and junior Whitley Pate, advanced to the quarterfinals of the doubles bracket.
  - In their run to the quarterfinals, Carton and Tannenbaum picked up a ranked win over No. 27 Hamner/Carnicella (South Carolina), 8-7 (9-7), in the Round of 32.
- In singles action, Anna Zhang advanced to the Round of 16 in the main draw, while four Demon Deacons advanced to at least the Round of 32.
  - Both freshmen Brianna Baldi and Kady Tannenbaum advanced from the qualifying rounds to the main draw of the event, with Baldi picking up a ranked win over No. 86 Zampardo (NC State), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, to advance to the Round of 32.
    - Both Baldi and Tannenbaum are now a combined 10-2 in singles matches during fall competition.

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Wake Forest University is known for its distinctive combination of world-class academics, unrivaled campus experience, intimate learning environment and Power 4 athletics in a top-growing metro market. A Charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Demon Deacons have won 57 conference titles and are one of only seven ACC schools to win 10 or more national championships, along with Notre Dame, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, Syracuse and Florida State. Additionally, Wake Forest anchors the Winston-Salem and Triad market, which includes 1.3M residents and was ranked as ESPN's seventh-best market from a viewership perspective.

Wake Forest's comprehensive excellence includes its highly regarded school of medicine, business school, law school and an innovative department of engineering. Additionally, Wake Forest has campuses across Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Washington, DC – providing many academic offerings to students from across the nation and around the world.

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This Week in Wake Forest Women’s Athletics – Presented by Truist (Oct. 21-27)

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