May 14, 2006

Smash - a cutting-edge tennis lifestyle magazine for teens from the publishers of Tennis Magazine - named its top 20 tennis colleges for both men and women recently in its debut issue, and the University of Notre Dame appeared in the top 10 on both lists. The rankings are based on colleges' academic rankings (from U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges) and their average year-end tennis rankings over the last five seasons. Notre Dame - which has both of its teams in the round of 16 of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994 - was listed ninth on the list of top tennis colleges for men and was in a seventh-place tie in the list of top tennis colleges for women.

See below the full listings of top tennis colleges or go to smashtennis.com for more details:

	MEN		WOMEN
1.	Stanford	Stanford
2.	Duke		Duke
3.	UCLA		Northwestern
4.	California	Vanderbilt
5.	Harvard		California
6.	Vanderbilt	Harvard
7.	USC		Notre Dame (T-7th)
8.	Illinois	UCLA (T-7th)
9.	Notre Dame	North Carolina
10.	Rice		USC
11.	Northwestern	William & Mary
12.	Brown		Florida
13.	Wake Forest	Wake Forest
14.	Florida		Washington
15.	North Carolina	Georgia
16.	Virginia	Georgia Tech
17.	Washington	Michigan
18.	Georgia		Texas
19.	Tulane		Tulane
20.	Pepperdine	Illinois