Megan Dunigan

5-7, Junior

Oak Ridge, Tenn. (Oak Ridge)


Returning after another great season and has the ability and experience to knock off some ranked players... Hopefully, this will be the year she moves into the national rankings... She is learning to mix her game up a little bit, but her bread and butter will always be the flat ball.

Fall 2000: Invited to the fall 2000 ITA Southeast Region Championships where she was seeded 14th, and to the All-America Qualifier... Teamed with Meredith Moore to win the flight one doubles championship at the University of Tennessee St. Mary's Health System Classic.

1999-00: Recorded another outstanding year with 20 singles victories against just five losses (.800)... Named Southern Conference Player of the Year, Southern Conference Tournament Most Outstanding Player, and No. 1 flight champion... All conference selection in both singles and doubles... Tallied a 14-7 (.667) record at number one doubles, teamed primarily with Gene Holman... Key wins in the season over Wisconsin's April Gabler (6-3, 6-1), South Florida's Katherin Tasser (6-4, 6-1), and Georgia Tech's Sabrina Pardo (7-6, 6-3)... Won 14 of her final 16 matches and swept all three opponents in the Southern Conference Tournament... Ranks fifth on Furman's single season wins chart with 20, and ninth on Furman's single season combined singles and double roster with 34... Named to Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll... Played No. 1 for Furman in the NCAA Tournament.

1998-99: Lived up to expectations with a stellar freshman season.... Posted a 16-10 record at No. 1 singles and earned a held a spot in the ITA's top 100 national ranking for over a month (ranked 96th on 2/19/99 and 100th on 3/9/99)... Tallied an 8-1 Southern Conference mark en route to being recognized as the first women's tennis player in Southern Conference history to earn player-of-the-year and freshman-of-the-year honors in the same season... Also earned All-Southern Conference honors and was named flight champion at No. 1 singles... Earned impressive singles victories over Clemson's Kate-Maree Mair and TCU's Daria Zoldakova... Teamed with Jarrell Starnes to post a 15-7 doubles mark at No. 2 doubles... Earned key doubles victories over North Carolina, Wake Forest, and Clemson... Played huge role in guiding Furman to its second straight Southern Conference Tournament Championship and first-ever NCAA Tournament Appearance... A SoCon Honor Roll member.

High School/Junior Tennis: Earned recognition in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" (6-15-98) after posting a perfect 82-0 prep record at Oak Ridge High School... Ranked as high as eighth in the South and 73rd in the nation in junior tennis... Helped lead Oak Ridge to two state championships and one state runner-up finish... Won TSSAA individual state championship during sophomore, junior, and senior seasons... A National Honor Society member, French Honor Society member, Tandy Scholar Nominee, National Merit Scholar, and recipient of the US Army Reserve National Scholar Athlete Award.

Personal: Megan Michelle Dunigan was born September 25, 1980, in Oak Ridge, Tenn.... Majoring in math and computer science.

Singles Records

Year
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
Total
98-99
14-9
2-1
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
16-10
99-00
20-5
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
20-5
Totals
34-15
2-1
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
36-15

 

Doubles Records

Year
#1
#2
#3
Total
98-99
0-0
15-7
0-0
15-7
99-00
14-7
0-0
0-0
14-7
Totals
14-7
15-7
0-0
29-14