Laura Granville
Class: 2003
Sport: Women's Tennis
Position:  
Stanford: 1999-2003

A two-time NCAA singles champion, Granville left Stanford in 2001 after her sophomore year to play professional tennis.

During her two years at Stanford, Granville won a NCAA record 58 consecutive singles matches, two NCAA singles titles, one NCAA team title and two ITA Collegiate Indoor singles titles, while compiling a singles win-loss record of 93-3.  Both seasons, the Chicago native was honored as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Player of the Year.

Granville achieved WTA Tour career high rankings of #28 in singles and #47 in doubles.  She twice reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon, as well as the third round of the US Open, French Open and Australian Open.  She recorded wins over Grand Slam champions Marion Bartoli, Martina Hingis, Mary Pierce and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario.  After nine years on the Tour, Granville returned to Stanford to earn her diploma in history in June, 2012.

Granville just finished her second year as head women’s tennis coach at Princeton University.