Yale Athletics

When the women’s tennis team won this year’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship, senior Mirabelle Brettkelly ’25 described it as “a moment that’s been four years in the making.”

During the 2021-22 season, then-first years Brettkelly and Jamie Kim ’25 started off strong. Brettkelly finished with a 19–8 record in singles and won the Queen’s Flight at the Columbia Invitational, her first collegiate tournament. Kim, meanwhile, won the team’s Special Contribution award and helped secure the team’s victory over a nationally ranked Florida International team.

In the 2022-23 season, the Bulldogs finished in the middle of the Ivy League conference standings, excelling at home with a 7–2 record at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center but going 1–7 on the road. Although Brettkelly sat out her sophomore season due to injury, she came back swinging in the 2023-24 season, and the Bulldogs improved their record, securing big wins over Harvard and Princeton at the ECAC Tournament.

Kim, team captain for her junior and senior years, led the team to an underdog ECAC Championship win this February, their first time claiming the tournament title in 13 years. In late April, the Bulldogs once again fell to Penn in their 2025 season finale, concluding their season with an overall record of 12–10, and 3–4 in Ivy action.

ARIELA LOPEZ
Ariela Lopez is the 148th Editor in Chief and President of the Yale Daily News. She previously covered Cops and Courts and City Hall for the City Desk and laid out the weekly print paper as a Production & Design editor. Ariela is an English major in Branford College, originally from New York City.