a 1973 NCAA National Collegiate Singles Tournament finalists that was held in Auburn, Alabama Watanabe had victories on the Women's Pro Circuit over Tracy Austin, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles and had a World Singles Ranking of 79th at one point in her professional career. Another standout Titan tennis player on that 1973 team is Michelle Rauland who after competing on that '73 team in January 1974 competed with the professional women tennis players at one of the circuit stops for the Virginia Slims Tour in Mission Viejo, California the tournament was played on hard courts and Rauland was beaten in the early rounds by Penny Johnson 1–6, 2–6 the winner of the tournament was Chris Evert beating in the finals Billie Jean King 6–3, 6–1 in 1974 the prize money for the tournament was $50,000 for the professionals. Standout Titan individual women tennis performers in singles and doubles under Coach Virginia Scheel tenure: 1970, 1971, 1972: Dawn Crossen-Wilson '73 1970, 1971, 1972: Kathy Blonder '75 Coach Jean Davenport years (1973–1976) Coach Jean Davenport's, a Virginia State University grad with a "MS" from Michigan State the Titan Health Ed. Instructor coached the 1975 Titans Team which was led by a Junior Fullerton's number No. 1 player Kathy Wright a former Stanford University player during her first year there. Davenport's said her team's greatest assets are persistence and strict conditioning. The team also achieved academic excellence in the classroom with an overall GPA of 3.3 and Davenport said this Titan team has a record wide age range on the team with student tennis athletes 18 to 45 with the eldest player being an Orange Coast College transfer student-athlete named Eileen Stephens who competed on the Titans team as a junior class and senior class member at the age of 44 and 45 years old. Standout Titan individual women tennis performers in singles and doubles under Coach Jean Davenport tenure: 1973, 1974: Sue Marta 1974: Kathy Wright Coach Jan Billings years (1976–1982) In a historic time for Division I Women's Athletics Ellen Linderman '81 who played on the 1977, 1978 and 1979 Titan squad's was one of the first women to receive an Athletic Scholarship because of Title IX from the Athletic Department by Coach Jan Billings at that time in the program at the university. The 1980 Titans squad was led by a number 1 freshman player named Pia Tamayo who