FOREST, Va. –The Guilford College women's tennis program closed the month of March in the same fashion they opened it, with Carolina Dirk (Port Aransas, Texas) being selected as the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Singles Player of the Week and pairing up with Erika Mendez (Asheville, N.C.) as the league's Doubles Team of the Week for the week ending on March 29^th, as announced by the conference offices on Monday afternoon.

Just continuing to roll through this season, Dirk remains unblemished atop the Quakers' lineup and maintained her dominance this week. Opening play on Saturday with a premier showdown between the two squads who were tied for third in the ODAC standings entering the weekend, the native of the Lone Star state set the tone in the top flight. Dropping just a single set per game, she crushed 2025 All-ODAC Second Teamer Camila Thurman, 6-1, 6-1 with GC dropping just a pair of flights, one in singles and one in doubles, staking themselves in third in the standings with a 6-1 win. Sunday unfortunately would not go the Quakers way at Virginia Wesleyan University, falling 6-1, but that one was Dirk as the sophomore was lights out again, dropping just a single set in a 6-0, 6-1 win over Tuva Flink.

Mendez alongside Dirk as GC's top doubles pair has proven successful as well this year. The sophomore tandem stayed unbeaten this week with a couple victories. Against R-MC, they toppled the 2025 First Team All-ODAC duo of Catherine Mowry and Thurman with a clean 6-0 sweep, arguably entrenching themselves as the duo to beat in the ODAC entering the season's final month. In their encore in Virginia Beach, Dirk and Mendez stayed hot, besting the Marlins tandem of Jette Dammeier and Mikisha Thomas, 6-2, securing GC's lone doubles win of the day.

Overall, Dirk went 2-0 in singles action on the week, maintaining her flawless season thus far, improving to 13-0 on her own. When playing with Mendez, the GC duo is now up to 12-0 on the year.

Grabbing the program's first weekly honors in nearly a decade when the same Quakers swept ODAC recognition back on March 3^rd, this season becomes just the women's tennis program's second-ever in which they secured multiple ODAC weekly honors in a campaign, alongside the 2006-07 campaign. On record, no prior Quaker had won multiple ODAC weekly awards in a career, let alone a season, making Dirk and Mendez the first-two to do so for women's tennis while Dirk's four total honors is the most the program has to boast by any player.

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