LANCASTER, PA – The Johns Hopkins women's tennis team is the unanimous pick to win its 14^th Centennial Conference Championship in 2020. The Blue Jays secured all 10 possible first-place votes and 100 points to land atop the voting.
 
Swarthmore was projected to finish in second place with 91 points and the other first-place vote (teams are not permitted to vote for themselves). Haverford (75), Franklin & Marshall (72) and Washington College (66) round out the top-five.
 
Hopkins went 19-4 overall and 10-0 in the Centennial Conference en route to winning its 13^th straight conference title and advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16. Junior Anjie Kashyap, the two-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year, returns to lead Blue Jays. She and senior Sophia Strickland qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championship while Kashyap also competed in the NCAA Singles Championship last season. Also returning is sophomore Jessica Liang, who earned Second Team All-Centennial honors in singles last year.
 
Hopkins opens the season on Saturday, February 29 at Navy.
 
2020 Centennial Conference Preseason Poll
1.     Johns Hopkins (10)             100
2.     Swarthmore (1)                   91
3.     Haverford                             75
4.     Franklin & Marshall            72
5.     Washington College            66
6.     Dickinson                            47
7T.  Gettysburg                           42
        Ursinus                                42
9.     Bryn Mawr                           39
10.   Muhlenberg                         21
11.   McDaniel                             10