Budin and El Jardi Earn NCAA Doubles Berth

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Maria Budin and Diae El Jardi have earned an at-large berth for the NCAA Women's Doubles Championship, which will begin play on May 23 in Champaign, Illinois. The bracket for the competition will be released later this month.

The Owls duo, who earned repeat first-team, All-Conference USA honors, and are currently ranked 21st in the nation, are the seventh Rice doubles team to earn a berth in the NCAA Doubles Championship and the first to do since 2016.

They were 14-5 during the dual season, the most for a Rice doubles team at the first line since Natalie Beazant and Dominique Harmath were 20-6 in 2013. Bezant and Harmath are the only two-time doubles qualifiers from Rice and they were the first to win a match at the NCAA Championship, winning their opening match in 2012.

Automatic qualification into the Division I doubles championship is awarded to any conference with one or more eligible doubles teams ranked in the ITA Top 60 for eligible/entered doubles teams. For conferences with more than one doubles team within the ITA Top 60 eligible/entered doubles teams, the subcommittee applies the NCAA selection criteria to determine which doubles team is the automatic qualifier from those conferences. All doubles teams must have started a minimum of 10 doubles matches, with a minimum of four matches in the spring, in order to be selected as an automatic qualifier or an at-large selection.

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