Federica Trevisan Named 2024 Kay Pearson Keating Award Winner
6/11/2024 9:43:00 AM | Women's Tennis
HOUSTON, Texas — Senior Federica Trevisan has been named the winner of the Kay Pearson Keating Award as the MVP of the women's tennis team for the 2023-24 season.
Trevisan was named to the AAC All-Conference Team this season after going 14-6 and 10-5, respectively, at the first position of both the singles and doubles lineups. She was named the AAC Player of the Week in consecutive weeks in April, going 4-1 in singles matches and 3-1 in doubles matches to help Rice go 4-1 during the two-week stretch. Trevisan recorded three separate winning streaks of at least four consecutive matches, including a season-best five-match winning streak bookended by a pair of clinching points in wins against Sam Houston and Charlotte.
Playing alongside graduate senior Chie Kezuka, the duo won the doubles consolation finals bracket at the ITA Regionals and compiled a 14-7 mark on the entire year. Trevisan finished the year with respective records of 18-7 and 15-8 in singles and doubles play and was named to the CSC Academic All-District Team.
The first woman to be inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame, Pearson Keating was the first female athlete in the history of The Rice Institute to gain considerable state and national acclaim for her exploits. As Kay Pearson while attending Rice, she earned All-America status by winning the 1934 National College Girls Invitational Tennis Championship in singles and doubles. She was the women's champion at Rice from 1932 to 1936 and won the Houston City Tennis champion nine times between 1931 and 1940 in addition to a host of AAU titles for singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.
Shortly before graduating from Rice in 1936, Pearson took up golf and won her first Houston City Women's championship two years later. She won the city title six times, with a five-year gap in the middle of her run due to World War II. She was the Texas Women's State champion in 1941 and again in 1947. In 1939, she tied for medalist honors at the Women's Southern Championship.
Keating Pearson was named an Honorary Member of the "R" Association in the fall of 1982 and became the first woman inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame in 1985. A lifetime supporter of the Owl Club, she endowed the award that bears her name.
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