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Gomez reflects on international play while looking ahead to senior year

Senior Maria Gomez will be graduating in the spring.

Courtesy of ECU Pirates

Most people wouldn’t travel halfway around the world to play tennis, but for senior Maria Gomez, that’s just another crosscourt she is willing to travel.

“I always wanted to play tennis,” Gomez said. “The sport caught my attention when I was young and I loved it ever since.”

Gomez, a native of Colombia, was ranked the number one player in her home country in each of the last six years before she started playing for ECU, as well as in every age division since she was 12 years old.