2021-22 Women's Tennis Roster
Casie Wooten
- Height:
- 5-3
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Chadwick School
- Hometown:
- Torrance, Calif.
Career Accolades:
- 2024 All-ACC Singles Third Team
- 2023 All-ACC Singles Third Team
- 2023 Blue Gray Classic MVP
- ACC Player of the Week (Jan. 16, 2024 and Feb. 20, 2024)
2024 (Senior): Again shined during her final collegiate season...Acted as team captain...Was the lone Deac to be ranked in the ITA Singles section for the spring's entirety, reaching as high as No. 25 in the country...Made a second consecutive appearance in the NCAA Singles Championships...Led Wake Forest with 15 singles wins in dual play with 22 total victories since the start of the fall...Racked up seven wins over ranked opponents, including the highest ranked win over her career against South Carolina's Ayana Akli (ranked No. 3 at the time) on Feb. 17...Collected six wins during ACC play...Also performed well in doubles, tallying 12 victories for the spring -- the second highest mark on the roster...Named ACC Player of the Week on Jan. 16 after grabbing a pair of ranked wins at the annual Carolina Kickoff, defeating No. 67 Maria Sholokhova of Wisconsin and No. 34 DJ Bennett of Auburn...Again was named ACC Player of the Week just over a month later on Feb. 20, becoming the first Wake Forest player to win ACC Player of the Week twice in the same season since Bea Bielik in 2002...Enjoyed a personal eight-match winning streak in singles from Feb. 3 to March 3, and ultimately won 11 of 12 matches from Feb. 3 to March 15...Competed at the No. 1 spot within the Deacs' singles lineup for each of her 28 spring appearances...Impressed during the fall, grabbing wins in five of eight matches...Knocked off No. 8 Anastasiya Komar of Oklahoma State in straight sets on Oct. 2, 2023...All-ACC Academic Team.
2023 (Junior): All-ACC Singles Third Team...Stepped into a bigger role as a junior, competing as the Demon Deacons' No. 1 singles player...Maintained the highest national singles ranking of any Wake Forest individual throughout the entire spring, standing as high as No. 27 in the ITA...Racked up seven wins over nationally-ranked opponents, the most of her college career up to date...2023 Blue Gray Classic MVP...Totaled 13 solo victories, third-best on the team...Earned an at-large bid to the 2023 NCAA Tennis Singles and Doubles Championships, partaking in the singles section for a first time...Opened the spring in a strong fashion by winning six of her first eight matches...Knocked off No. 55 Page Freeman of Notre Dame in a comfortable straight-sets performance during the Deacs' comeback win over the No. 8-seeded Fighting Irish in the ACC Championships' second round...Second on the roster in conference solo wins...Won all 12 of her doubles victories with classmate Mia Ahmad as a partner, as the two delivered a number of impressive showings, including an exceptional comeback win over Sasha Gorchanyuk/Maria Campos of Louisville (March 24) in which the two secured five consecutive games to clinch...Wooten and Ahmad also enjoyed an eight-match win streak from Feb. 5 to March 5...Kicked off her fall season with a bang by defeating No. 5 Chloe Beck of Duke in the 35th annual Debbie Southern Fall Classic (Sept. 16)...All-ACC Academic selection...ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2022 (Sophomore): ITA Scholar-Athlete...All-ACC Academic Team selection...ACC Academic Honor Roll...Gave the Deacons a consistent threat in both singles and doubles action...Played in 24 matches during her second year...Joined Samantha Martinelli to act as one of the country's best in doubles...Ranked as high as No. 15 in the ITA Doubles...The duo went 4-1 over opposing ranked pairs and earned a bid to the 2022 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships...Was one of two Deacs to stay in the ITA singles rankings column, landing as high as No. 50...Led Wake Forest in singles wins for much of the regular season, eventually tying with Martinelli and Anna Brylin for the team lead of 16 victories...Provided the match clinch in her first career ranked win on Feb. 5 when she took down No. 118 Megan Davies of South Carolina...Added on two additional victories over ranked opponents during the course of the spring...Won seven of her final nine completed matches down the season's final stretch.
2021 (Freshman): Ended the year with a 13-7 record in solo competition and a 5-4 record in doubles action...Split time between the No. 4 and No. 5 spot in singles...Regularly was in the No. 2 spot for doubles...Partnered with Peyton Pesavento in their upset of the 52nd ranked doubles pair from Virginia in April 2021...ITA Scholar Athlete.
