Hall of Fame

Xenia Anastasiadou head shot

Xenia Anastasiadou

  • Class
    1989
  • Induction
    2024
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Tennis
The greatest women's tennis player to ever pick up a racquet in the CCAA was Cal Poly Pomona's Xenia Anastasiadou.
 
In her three seasons at CPP, she earned three All-CCAA honors and was named an All-American each season. In her sophomore and junior seasons, she won back-to-back NCAA Div. II Women's Tennis Singles Championships, becoming only one of two student-athletes ever to accomplish this feat.
 
Her success helped Cal Poly Pomona win the 1987 CCAA Championship and place third at the NCAA Championships in each of her three seasons. 
 
Xenia Anastasiadou was ranked No. 1 going into her senior season when she was taken from this world too early by a car crash in Diamond Bar at the age of 22. Anastasiadou was a native of Athens, Greece. 
 
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