Maria Brito Class: Senior Hometown: Mexico City, Mexico High School: Secretaria de Educacion Publica Height: 5-3 Major: Sport Management

Overview: Will begin her final season just two doubles wins and one three-set singles victory away from the Tiger record books ...currently owns an 18-17 record in three-set matches with three former Clemson players tied for ninth place in history with 19 wins ...with two doubles victories, will tie Alix Lacelarie for 10th place all-time for career doubles victories with 80 ...is a two-time All-ACC selection ...only current player to have been a member of both NCAA Final Four teams and the 2004 ACC Championship team ...was the flight four champion at that conference tournament ...holds the school record for most doubles victories in a single season by an individual with 33 in 2004 ...also ranked seventh in Clemson annuals for doubles team victories with 25 with former All-American Julie Coin in 2004 ...Clemson has been to the NCAA Tournament in each of her three previous seasons ...has made the Clemson Honor Roll for three semesters ...as a freshman, won the ITA Southeast Region doubles championships with Coin, the first and only Tiger tandem to claim that honor.

Spring 2007
Highlights: Moved into the top 10 in program history for career doubles wins and total three-set victories ...ranked second with 99 doubles wins after posting 24 in the 2006-07 season ...also listed in a tie for fifth place all-time at Clemson with 21 three-set match victories ...tallied three in the spring season.

Singles: Posted a 14-9 record during the 2007 spring season ...won 10 of those matches at the flight five position ...opened the season with back-to-back straight set victories, defeating Maxine Capewell of the College of Charleston (6-1, 6-4) and Gabriela Duch of South Florida (7-5, 6-1) ...after a loss to Cosmina Ciobanu of Notre Dame at the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships, won her next two matches in the tournament ...posted a three-set victory over Brigham Young's Sofia Holden at flight four (7-6(6), 5-7, 10-5) ...then defeated Alex McGoodwin, 6-4, 7-5, at flight five to help the Tigers to a 4-3 win over UCLA ...also recorded non-conference wins against Lauren Tomory of Furman (7-5, 6-0), Megan McGavok of South Carolina (6-3, 6-1), and Stephanie Vieria of Troy (6-3, 6-4) ...won six matches in the ACC regular season ...defeated Maryland's Lisa Miller (6-4, 6-2), Florida State's Carolin Walter (6-3, 6-2), Miami's Gina Sabatino (7-5, 7-5), North Carolina's Austin Smith (6-2, 2-6, 10-3), Wake Forest's Christian Tara (6-4, 5-7, 10-5) and Virginia Tech's J.J. Larson (6-4, 6-4) ...win over Smith was her first against a ranked opponent in 2007 as the Tar Heel was listed 98th at the time ...Tara was also ranked to give Brito her second ranked victory of the season ...also won her flight five contest in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament ...defeated Virginia's Amanda Rales in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, after falling to the Cavalier in the regular season match-up just six days before ...suffered a heart-breaking loss in the semifinals of the conference championships to Miami's Caren Seenauth ...had won the first set, 6-3, before falling by a 6-4 margin in the second ...the third frame was then a battle that was decided by a tie-break as each player held serve late in the set ...Seenauth claimed the tie-break 7-4 to post the win...did not record a decision in Clemson's regional matches ...then fell to Marion Ravelojaona of California in her final match as a Tiger (7-6, 6-1) in Clemson's loss to the Golden Bears in the NCAA Round of 16.

Doubles: Boasted an impressive 21-6 record during doubles play ...partnered with Alexandra Luc for 15 of the first 16 matches of the spring season, compiling an 11-4 ledger ...won an 8-3 decision with Luc in the first match of the dual season over the College of Charleston's Borza and Capewell ... paired with Ina Hadziselimovic for one match, a contest in which they suffered a 9-7 loss to South Florida's team of Rai and Cruz ...then posted six straight wins with Luc ...defeated teams from Notre Dame, Brigham Young and UCLA at the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships in February ...then posted victories against Petrashevitch and Leonchuk of Virginia Commonwealth (8-6), Bornt-Davis and Tomory of Furman (8-3) and Georgia' Frazier and Ueshima (9-7) ...also recorded a non-conference win over South Alabama's Frietas and Krivacevic (8-5) and Shaw and Jounia from Troy (8-2), both at the flight three position ...with Luc, won ACC matches against Flower and Rudman of Georgia Tech (9-7) and Miller and Steiner of Maryland (8-6) ...after suffering back-to-back losses to Florida State and Miami with Luc, teamed with Carol Salge for the remainder of the season and lost just one match ...duo was a stellar 10-1 at the flight three position ...in the regular season, defeated Duke's team of Plotkin and Cargill (8-6), North Carolina's tandem of Fanjoy and Smith (8-4), Brock and Bleakley of NC State (8-4), Simpson and Poske of Wake Forest (8-3), Virginia's duo of Pereira and Rales (8-6) and Virginia Tech's team of Brouwer and Walker (8-6) ...won over the Cavalier team for a second time just six days later in the quarterfinals of the ACC Championships, by an 8-3 margin in the later match-up ...with Salge, came from behind to post an 8-5 victory over Miami's team of Banada and Sabatino in the semifinals of the conference tournament ...duo then won its NCAA first-round match-up against Coetzee and Ahlberg of Coastal Carolina, 8-0, to help Clemson clinch the doubles point in just over a half hour ...won their 10th straight match in the regional final against Virginia as they posted an 8-5 victory over Rales and Larson ...came up just short against Claire Ilcinkas and Bojana Bobusic of California to end the season, 8-6, in the NCAA round of 16.

Fall 2006
Singles: Played just five matches in the fall season with a 1-4 record ...defeated Egle Petrauskaite (6-3, 6-2) of Florida International at the Miami Invitational in November ...earned a bid to the prequalifying round at the Riveria/ITA All-American Championships ...fell to Mississippi's Elizabeth Wood, 6-4, 7-5 in the first round ...suffered a 6-1, 7-5 loss to #24 Taka Bertrand of Vanderbilt in the opening round of the Southeast Regional ...was defeated by #64 Caroline Walter of Florida State (3-6, 6-4, 7-6) and Jessica Wente (6-3, 6-2), also of Florida State, in the Miami Invitational.

Doubles: Compiled a 3-2 record in fall doubles action, playing all five matches with Alexandra Luc ...reached the round of 16 at the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional in October ...defeated Behr and Suggs of UNC Greensboro in the round of 64 (8-1) ...then won an 8-6 decision over Vanderbilt's team of Newman and Taylor in the round of 32 ...fell to Coventry and Schwenk of Kentucky, 8-3, in the round of 16 ...went 1-1 with Luc at the Miami Invitational in November ...edged Florida State's Slater and Macfarlane, 9-7, on the first day ...then fell to Banada and Farah of Miami, 8-2

Spring 2006
Singles: Had an 11-10 ledger during the 2006 spring season with a 6-5 record in conference matches ...went 20-11 in the fall and spring seasons combined ...defeated Chelsea Albertz of College of Charleston in first match of the season (6-4, 6-4) ...notched non-conference victories over Lauren Cash of William & Mary (7-5, 6-1); Sara Mansur of Brown (6-1, 6-2); and Michaela Babicova of South Alabama (6-2, 6-0) ...won her flight three singles match against Evgenia Subbotina (6-2, 6-2) in Clemson's win over Georgia ...posted six wins in ACC competition ...defeated Georgia Tech's 60th-ranked Kelly Anderson (6-4, 6-2); Virginia's Lori Stern (6-3, 3-6, 7-5); Virginia Tech's J.J. Larson (6-4, 7-5); Maryland's Neda Mihneva (1-6, 6-3, 7-5); and NC State's Julia Roach (6-1, 6-1) ...also won a crucial match in Tigers' 4-3 upset victory over North Carolina, defeating Austin Smith in three sets after losing the first (3-6, 7-6, 7-6) ...all six victories were at the flight four position ...played in all four post-season matches but did not have a match of record.

Doubles: Posted a 19-14 doubles record with four different partners during 2005-06 ...teamed with Carol Salge to win six of eight matches ...also had a 1-0 record with Alexandra Luc and a 1-2 mark with Kathi Gerber ...played 21 matches with Marie Scriba, tallying an 11-10 record for the spring season ...with Scriba, defeated William & Mary's team of Cash and Muth, 8-4; Furman's pair of Moore and Osborne, 8-3; Georgia's Frazier and Hyndman, 8-6; Shaw and Bares of Troy, 8-3; and South Alabama's team of Stanic and Krivacevis, 8-3 during the non-conference schedule ...won three ACC matches with Scriba, including an 8-5 decision over James and Long of Virginia Tech; an 8-4 mark over Nafareete and Szegedi of Boston College ; ...also won one match with Alexandra Luc when team defeated Capewell and Finnegan in season opener against the College of Charleston ...teamed with Kathi Gerber for a 1-2 record, winning an 8-1 decision over Brown's pair of Mansur and Finkelstein ...with Scriba, had a 3-1 record during the post season ...defeated Anson and Silverio of Georgia Tech, 9-8(7) in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament ...then won an 8-1 decision over Siena in the first-round of the NCAA regionals ...also posted a victory over Kentucky's team of Petrisko and Winebrenner in the regional finals (8-2) to conclude the season.

Fall 2005
Singles: Tallied an impressive 9-1 mark during the fall season in singles play ...claimed the flight three title at the Furman Fall Classic with wins over Nicole Beck of Wisconsin (6-2, 3-6, 6-2), Ghizela Schutte of Tennessee (7-6(6), 6-3) and Natasa Vuckovic of South Carolina (6-0, 6-0) ...won the B1 draw at the USTA Women's College Tennis Invitational ...defeated Penn's Alexis Pluksas, 6-4, 6-4, in the first round, then posted a second victory over Vuckovic (7-5, 5-7, 1-0(7)) ...claimed a 6-2, 6-4 decision against Stephanie Schnitter of Harvard in the semifinals and won over Texas A&M's Ale Jordan in the finals (6-3, 6-2) ...reached the round of 16 of the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional Championships, where suffered a loss to #68 Jackie Charleton of Duke ...defeated Charlotte's Ofra Friedman by a score of 6-2, 6-1 in the opening round and then won, 6-2, 6-4, over Schutte of Tennessee in the round of 32.

Doubles: Posted a 6-2 doubles record with Carol Salge in fall play ...placed second in the Furman Fall Classic at flight three with an 8-3 victory over South Carolina's Jones and Orlin in the consolation final ...won the B2 bracket of the USTA Women's College Tennis Invitational with a 8-4 victory over Druss and Iwinski of Texas A&M in the championship match...defeated Penn's team of Lostorrow and Sadaka in the opening round (8-1), Arkansas' duo of Bordeleau and Jovanovic in the second round (8-2), Harvard's Peterzan and Stewart in the semifinals ...edged in the opening round of the Wilson/ITA Southeast Regional Championships by Wake Forest's Jerman and Tara (8-6) to end their fall season.

Spring 2005
Named to the 2005 All-ACC Team, her second selection in as many years

Singles: Posted a 16-12 record during the dual season, including a 5-5 mark in ACC matches ...won two matches at flight four in Clemson's NCAA Tournament Final Four run ...defeated Amy Wei of William & Mary in the second round (6-3, 6-1) and Valerie Vladea in the Tigers' round of 16 upset of #6 Northwestern (6-4, 3-6, 6-4) ...recorded conference victories over Virginia Tech's Jessica Long at flight four (6-1, 6-3), NC State's Danielle Stadelmann at flight three (6-2, 6-3), Maryland's Neda Minheva at flight five (6-4, 1-6, 6-4), Virginia's Marta Bechilwanis at flight five (6-2, 6-2) and Florida State's Tapiwa Marobela at flight four (6-4, 6-0) ...in the ACC Tournament, won her quarterfinal match against Patricia Starzyk of Miami at flight four (6-2, 6-1) ...other notable wins include a 6-3, 7-5 decision over Georgia's Evgenia Subbotina at flight three, one of Clemson's two singles victories against the Bulldogs; a 6-4, 6-2 decision over #93 Preethi Mukundan of Harvard at flight three and a 6-1, 6-1 victory over South Carolina's Fallon Koon at flight six.

Doubles: Had a 16-13 record in dual match doubles contests ... with Daniela Alvarez, won eight doubles matches against nine losses ...Brito-Alvarez team won both matches in the NCAA regionals at flight two, including an 8-0 decision over Furman's Marti Morris and Lauren Osborne and a 8-5 victory against William & Mary's Kate Boomershine and Candice Fuchs ...teamed with Alvarez, posted notable wins over Elizabeth Lumpkin and Laura Gordon of UCLA in the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships, 9-7, and claimed the Tigers' only doubles victory against Georgia with an 8-4 decision over Kelley Hyndman and Evgenia Subbotina ...won ACC regular season matches at flight two, with Alvarez, over Miami's Melissa Applebaum and Staci Stevens (8-3), Florida State's Roxanne Clarke and Amber Tantee (8-5) and Duke's Clelia Deltour and Tory Zawacki (8-6) ...compiled a 5-2 mark with Richele LeSaldo and a 3-1 record with Carol Salge ...with Salge, defeated Anat Elazari and Ashley James of Virginia Tech at flight two (8-2) and Lindsey Pereira and Caroline Hammond of Virginia at flight three (9-7) ...won conference matches at flight two with LeSaldo over Danielle Stadelmann and Agustina Arechavelta of NC State (8-6) and Ashlee Davis and Katie Martzolf of Wake Forest (9-7) ...with LeSaldo, posted a 9-7 decision over South Carolina's Carol Lucas and Miranda Gutierrez.

Fall 2004
Singles: Finished with a 4-5 overall singles record ...ranked 70th in the ITA preseason singles poll ... won her first round match in the ITA Southeast Regional Championships over Wake Forest's Jenna Loeb before falling to Caitlin Collins of North Carolina ...lost in the first round of the qualifying round of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships to Riza Zalameda of UCLA ...in the consolation bracket, defeated #46 Lyndsay Shosho of Georgia Tech and #87 Roberta Fessendko of Sacramento State.

Doubles: Recorded a 7-5 overall mark in doubles play with teammate Daniela Alvarez ...team ranked 21st in the preseason ITA doubles poll ...paired with Alvarez, avanced to the main draw of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, defeating Eva Dikes and Bianca Dulgheru of Pepperdine in the opening round of the qualifying tournament, the 30th-ranked Oregon duo of Dominika Dieskova and Daria Panova in the second round and Florida's 36th-ranked team of Boglarka Berecz and Nina Suvak in the finals ...lost in the main draw of the ITA event to 12th-ranked Zerene Reyes and Jennifer Magley of Florida ...reached the semifinals of the ITA Southeast Regional Championships before losing to the #3 team of Sarah Foster and Aibika Kalsarieva from Kentucky ...received a first-round bye, then defeated Alet Boonzaaier and Marina Tasheva of Tennessee Tech; Ashleigh Murray and Laura Swain of UNC-Charlotte; and #48 Karin Coetzee and Ashlee Davis of Wake Forest a the ITA SE Regional Championships.

Spring 2004
Singles: Tallied a 22-6 record in dual singles play and a 6-2 record in the ACC...ranked 100th by the ITA in the final singles poll...ended the season on an eight-match winning streak...in the Elite Eight match at the NCAA Championships, defeated Dinka Hadzic of Washington (6-2, 6-4) at flight four...in NCAA Regional action, won a 6-4, 7-6(7) decision over Tsitsi Masviba of Troy State in the first round and a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Miranda Gutierrez of South Carolina in the second round...won three matches at flight four at the ACC Championships, defeating Maryland's #91 Emily Marker (6-2, 6-3), North Carolina's Kendall Cline (5-7, 6-1, 6-2) and Duke's Julia Smith (6-1, 0-6, 7-5)...in regular season ACC play at flights three and four, was victorious over Duke's Smith (4-6, 6-3, 6-0), North Carolina's Sara Anundsen (6-4, 6-4), Georgia Tech's Alison Silverio (6-4, 7-5), Virginia's Dora Bechliwanis (6-1, 6-2), Wake Forest's Katie Martzolf (6-2, 2-6, 6-3) and N.C. State's Jennifer Jassawalla (7-5, 6-2)...also recorded wins over Lauren Jones of Brigham Young (6-4, 6-2), Daria Potapova of Baylor (6-3, 6-4) and Jess Vanderdys of Colorado (7-5, 6-0) at number three singles.

Doubles: At the NCAA Doubles Championships with teammate Julie Coin, defeated Wisconsin's Martin and McGaffigan (6-3, 6-3) in the first round before falling to third-ranked Grier and Rush of Northwestern in three sets in the second round...became only the third doubles team in program history to advance past the first round of the NCAA Doubles Tournament...posted a 21-5 dual match record and a 7-1 conference mark...ranked 17th with Julie Coin and 48th with Daniela Alvarez in the final ITA doubles poll...at the ACC Tournament with Alvarez at the flight one position, defeated But and Marker of Maryland (8-5) in the first round and won an 8-6 decision over 23rd-ranked Cline and Mojzis of North Carolina in the semi-finals...with Alvarez in regular season conference action, was victorious over Georgia Tech's Anderson and Grant (8-6) and Virginia's Fritz-Krockow and James (8-1) at flight one, and defeated North Carolina's Bairos and Bunn (8-3) and Florida State's Deason and Dumitrescu (8-2) at number two doubles...with Coin in league play, posted wins over N.C. State's Apodaca and Lam (8-1), Wake Forest's Knight and Smith (8-1) and Maryland's Baker and Mihneva (8-5)...also with Coin, defeated 32nd-ranked Schonfeldova and Subbotina of Georgia (8-4) at flight two, and 45th-ranked Balzert and Potapova of Baylor (8-2) at flight one...won an 8-4 decision over South Carolina's Ganzer and Lucas at number one doubles.

Fall 2003
Singles: Finished the fall season with a 9-3 overall singles record...reached the quarterfinals of the ITA Southeast Regional Singles Championships, defeating Ashlee Davis and Aimee Smith of Wake Forest and Lara Maurer of Kentucky, before falling to Kentucky's Aibika Kalsarieva in the quarterfinal round...in the prequalifying round of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships, won decisions over Erica Sauer of Southern California, Dominika Dieskova of Oregon and Daniela Muscolino of Tulsa to advance to the qualifying bracket...was victorious over #95 Jessica Johnson of Marshall during the qualifying round of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships...took third place in the flight two singles bracket at the Furman Fall Classic, defeating Maaria Husain of Penn State in the final match.

Doubles: Posted an 11-3 overall record with teammate Julie Coin...with Coin, ranked 29th by the ITA in the preseason doubles poll...won the ITA Southeast Regional Doubles Championship with Coin, defeating five teams, including #30 Kruse and Venter of Middle Tennessee in the semifinals and Coetzee and Smith of Wake Forest in the finals, becoming the first doubles team in Clemson history to claim that title...in the first round of the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, fell to third-ranked Kops-Jones and Podkolzina of California, before going on to win the consolation bracket, recording victories over Roland and Vieira of Texas A&M, #41 Johnson and Kroh of Marshall and #49 DaCosta and Rutherford of Michigan...defeated Texas A&M's Spencer and Walker before falling to Illinois' #31 Goulet and McGaffigan at the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships...took second place in the flight one draw at the Furman Fall Classic, with wins over Hagood and Eckert of Furman and Schellhas and Tsoubanos of Vanderbilt.

Before Clemson
Top-two ranked junior (16's) and top-four ranked junior (18's) in Mexico...ranked 48th in singles and 11th in doubles by the International Tennis Federation...an Orange Bowl doubles finalist (18's)...born November 19, 1983.