Women's Tennis Signs Two Players for 2016-17 Season

Women's Tennis | 11/16/2015 3:30:00 PM

POCATELLO, Idaho – Idaho State women's tennis Head Coach Gretchen Maloney has announced the signing of two new players for the 2016-17 season. The Bengals signed both Madison Fenske out of Rapid City, S.D. and Megan Poe of Denton, Texas, both of whom will begin their freshman campaigns next season.

Fenske, a 5-foot-2 product out of St. Thomas More High School, is ranked as the No. 1 player for girls 18s, and has lettered five years in tennis and three years in track and field. She was part of the first-ever state-championship tennis squad in 2015 and was the state doubles champion in 2014. She has been named to the all-tournament tennis team three times, and has also seen ample success on the track. Currently, Fenske holds the mile record for her high school, and she was part of the 2012 state championship track team.

Poe stands 5-feet-10 and is the third in her family to play college tennis behind her two older sisters, Mary and Jamie, who play for North Texas and Southern Arkansas, respectively. For the past three years, Poe has attended the iSchool STEM Academy where she saw ample success on the tennis court. In 2015, she placed first in open singles at the Texas Cotton Bowl and registered a first-place doubles finish at an ITA tournament. In 2014, she claimed the doubles title at the USTA National Regional Segment in Okla. as well as the doubles title at the UTSA Super Champ Major Zone. She was academic all-district in addition to placing first at the Young Science Achievers Program, leading to an invitation to work with NASA in the NASA Hunch Program.

"Both girls have great games," Head Coach Gretchen Maloney said. "Madi is fast with an aggressive forehand. Megan has a big serve and is a force at the net. They are great girls and I look forward to them helping us next year."

Fenske and Poe will be joining current freshman Nonie Mulcahy Alexandersen and sophomore McKelle Sanders next year. Mulcahy Alexandersen and Sanders are the only current members of the Bengals squad that are not seniors.