Three Sign With Carolina Women's Tennis

CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina head women's tennis coach Brian Kalbas announced the addition of three players - Fiona Crawley (San Antonio, Texas), Elizabeth Scotty (Annapolis, Md.) and Reilly Tran (Fairfax, Va.) - that have signed National Letters of Intent to join the Tar Heels.

Crawley and Tran will enter school in the fall of 2020, while Scotty is enrolled for January and is expected to compete in the upcoming spring semester.

"Our staff is so thrilled to have Fiona, Elizabeth and Reilly join our Tar Heel family," said Kalbas. "All three bring such tremendous character and that is a credit to their incredible families. I have no doubt that this group will help strengthen our program over the coming years. All three are very experienced tennis players that have enjoyed great success in their junior careers. We think they will continue to do great things here at Carolina both on and off the court."

Crawley is a Blue Chip Recruit and considered the No. 3 ranked player in the Class of 2020 according to TennisRecruiting.net. She is the No. 1 rated player in the Gulf States Region and the state of Texas. She is currently No. 559 in the ITF Junior World Rankings where she held a career high ranking of 474 in January 2019.

Crawley won the Girls 16s title at the USTA Billie Jean King National Hard Court Championships in 2018. She not only captured a gold ball with the win but also gained entrance into the U.S. Open Junior Championship, and competed in the Junior Federation Cup qualifier that same year.

In 2017, Crawley was the USTA 16s National Clay Court Singles champion and the USTA 18s National Winter Singles champion. She also won a pair of USTA singles events in 2019, the USTA National Level 2 presented by John Newcombe Tennis Academy and the San Antonio Super Champ Level 3 event.

Scotty is currently No. 783 in the ITF World Rankings and No. 1239 in the WTA Singles Rankings. She defeated University of Texas senior Anna Turati on her way to reaching the quarterfinals of the Jayhawk 15K on the IFT World Tour in September 2019.

She won the UTR Open at Wake Forest, reached the finals of the 30K CVITT Pro Invitational and was a semifinalist at the Mid-Atlantic McDonald's 30K Clay Court Championship.

Tran is a Blue Chip Recruit and considered the No. 5 ranked player in the Class of 2020 according to TennisRecruiting.net. She is the No. 2 rated player in the Middle Atlantic Region and the top rated player in the state of Virginia.

She is currently No. 790 in the ITF Junior World Rankings where she held a career high ranking of 705 in January 2019.

Tran has won two major doubles titles on the USTA circuit, the 2019 USTA Girls 18 National Clay Court Championship and the 2018 USTA National Indoor G18 Championship.

She won the 2019 Virginia 6A singles and doubles titles and led Marshall High School to the team championship. Tran owns a 50-2 singles record in her high school career.

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