Darien Sears
	Class: Sophomore Hometown: Silver Spring, Md. High School: Bullis Prep Height: 5-3 Birthdate: 05/13/1992

Sophomore (Fall 2011): Went 4-8 in singles play and tandemed with Abby Shewalter to record a 2-5 doubles record ... competed in the ITA / USTA Atlantic Region Championships in singles play, winning a consolation-round match over Morgan State's Jasmine Edwards ... reached the semifinals of the Bill & Sandra Moore Invitational while winning two matches, including the first one in a three-set thriller ... won a quarterfinal-round match at the Hampton Roads Collegiate Invitational ... Sears and Shewalter won one doubles match at both the Hampton Roads Collegiate Invitational and Navy Blue & Gold Invitational.

Freshman (2011): Had a sensational freshman campaign, tying classmate Erin Snook for the school record with 24 singles victories ... went 24-9 in singles play and 12-15 in doubles play ... her 36 combined victories were the fourth most in school history ... went 16-6 in dual-meet singles action, mostly at No. 4 singles (14-6) ... ended the season winning her last six matches, including a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Bucknell's Courtney Casey in the Patriot League Tourmament semifinals, where she trailed 5-2 in the second set ... went 5-0 against Patriot League competition in singles play (tournament included) ... opened the spring season by winning six of her first eight matches ... had a five-match winning streak during the fall, losing in the finals of the Bill & Sandra Moore Invitational in a three-set decision to Howard's Katelyn Stokes ... won both of her matches at the Navy Blue & Gold Invitational to conclude an 8-3 fall season ... partnered mostly with Brittney Boucher to record a 12-15 doubles record ... went 6-9 in dual-meet action and 6-4 during the fall ... reached the semifinals of the Bill & Sandra Moore Invitational ... won three matches in a row during the fall ... did not win more than two doubles matches in a row during the spring season.

Prior to Navy: A 2010 graduate of Bullis Prep, Sears lettered twice in tennis and also ran track ... Sears also lettered twice at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School ... was named team captain in 2009 and was Bullis' Female Athlete of the Year in 2010 ... was an all-county honoree at Bethesda-Chevy Chase in 2008-09 ... a three-star recruit according to TennisRecruiting.net ... ranked No. 4 in Maryland and 35th in the Middle-Atlantic region.

Personal: Daughter of George and Kathleen Sears ... can speak fluent French and participated in an exchange program with a school from Paris ... majoring in ocean engineering.

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