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WACO, Texas - Baylor women's tennis head coach Joey Scrivano announced his team's 2015-16 schedule Tuesday, which is headlined by 16 home dual-matches in the spring.

"This year's schedule is loaded with opportunities for our team to learn and grow," Scrivano said. "It's definitely a challenging schedule, but that is what makes it exciting for fans and beneficial to the team's development. Our fans will have a chance to see some of the best NCAA tennis in the country. With the team we have now and the teams coming in, it will be a high-level of tennis that will be fun and entertaining to watch."

Baylor opens its fall schedule on Sept. 18 by hosting the Under Armour/H-E-B Kickoff. The event, which will run through Sept. 20, features players from Alabama, Baylor, Incarnate Word, Ohio State, Texas A&M and Tyler Junior College. That event is one of three that Baylor will host during the fall season and one of 10 events on the fall slate. While her teammates participate in the home event, Kiah Generette will represent BU at the Oracle/ITA Masters in Malibu, Calif., Sept. 18-20.

The next weekend, BU players will be in Houston to take part in the Rice Invitational, Sept. 25-27. Following the opening two weeks of the season, Generette along with Blair Shankle will take part in the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, which run Oct. 3-11 in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Baylor will be in Texas for the next three events on its schedule, starting with the Bush's $50,000 Waco Showdown Wildcard, Oct. 8-11. That USTA professional event will feed players into the Bush's $50,000 Waco Showdown, which will be held Nov. 1-8. Both events will be hosted at the Hurd Tennis Center. In between those two professional events, BU athletes will travel south to the USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championships held in College Station, Oct. 22-26.

To close out the fall season, Baylor will participate in three events outside the Lone Star State, starting with the Jack Kramer Club Invitational in Rolling Hills, Calif., Nov. 5-8. Players will have a chance to play their way into the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Championships in New York, Nov. 12-15, while others will play in the UNLV Rebel Invitational, Nov. 13-15, in Las Vegas, N.V.

Overall, the spring dual-match schedule features 27 contests with 16 in Waco and 11 on the road. Seventy percent (19 of 27) of Baylor's matches will come against teams, which were ranked at the end of the 2015 season. The 19 ranked foes include 12 top-25 opponents and nine top 15 teams.

Baylor will begin the spring season with a road trip to Hawai'i for a Jan. 9 contest. The Bears will then play six of their next seven matches at home, including a pair of double headers. To open the home slate, BU welcomes McNeese State and UT Rio Grande Valley on Jan. 14. The first match against a ranked opponent comes on Jan. 27 when Texas A&M comes to Waco. A trip to Tulsa on Jan. 30 is sandwiched in between the opening three-matches and three more home contests.

To close out the opening home stretch, BU welcomes Incarnate Word and Oregon on Feb. 5 for its second and final double-header of the year. Meanwhile, fellow Pac-12 member Washington will follow the Ducks trip to Waco with a match on Feb. 7.

Baylor's next eight matches will all come against teams, which were ranked in the top-21 to close 2015, starting with matches at No. 6 Florida (Feb. 13) and No. 15 Miami (Feb. 15).

The Bears will host defending NCAA champion Vanderbilt on Feb. 20, before paying a visit to Texas A&M on Feb. 24 and NCAA runner-up UCLA on Feb. 27.

Baylor welcomes Big Ten schools Michigan (March 3) and Ohio State (March 6), in its final matches before Big 12 play begins.

The Lady Bears open Big 12 Conference play with road contests at Kansas and Kansas State on March 9 and March 10, respectively. It is back to non-conference play after that as BU travels to Indian Wells, Calif., to play USC on March 19 and then hosts Northwestern on March 23.

For a two-match conference homestand, the Lady Bears continue Big 12 action hosting Oklahoma (April 1) and Oklahoma State (April 3). Baylor continues conference play with a match at TCU on April 8, before hosting Texas Tech on April 10. In the final non-conference match of the season, the Bears welcome Rice to the Hurd Tennis Center on April 13.

Three more Big 12 matches -- Iowa State (April 15), West Virginia (April 17) and at Texas on April 23 close the regular season.

The postseason begins with the conference championship starting five days later on April 28, followed by the NCAA First and Second Rounds at selected campus sites from May 13-15. The NCAA Team and Individual Championships will conclude the year, May 19-30.

As a team, Baylor finished last year ranked No. 8, after compiling a 28-7 record and making the NCAA Quarterfinals for the sixth time in program history and advancing past the NCAA second round for the 10th time in the last 11 years. The Lady Bears won both the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles in 2015 to give the program 19 conference titles.

Baylor returns five letterwinners from the 2014-15 squad, including two-time All-American doubles player Blair Shankle. To that veteran group, Scrivano has added highly touted freshmen Elizabeth Profit and Gabriela Ferreira as well as Syracuse transfer Rhiann Newborn.

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