Bucknell Women's Tennis moves Duquesne match to outdoor Varsity Courts Feb. 28

Bucknell Athletics announced on Feb. 26 that the Saturday, Feb. 28 women's tennis dual against Duquesne was relocated from the Central PA Tennis Center in South Williamsport to Bucknell’s Varsity Tennis Courts on the Lewisburg campus, with the start time advanced to noon. The team posted the schedule update to its social channels ahead of the weekend.

The athletics website had published the original home weekend schedule on Feb. 25, listing a Patriot League match against Army on Friday, Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. and a nonconference match with Duquesne on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 1 p.m., both at the Central PA Tennis Center. That BucknellBison item noted Bucknell entered the weekend 5-4 overall and 0-1 in the Patriot League, with Army listed at 12-3 and Duquesne at 3-7.

Bucknell’s Instagram account posted the update in plain text: "SCHEDULE UPDATE Bucknell Women's Tennis Saturday's match against Duquesne will now be played at noon on the Varsity Tennis Courts." The social post mirrors the Feb. 26 announcement moving the Feb. 28 match onto the on-campus courts and setting a 12:00 p.m. start.

The Feb. 26 announcement included a truncated line in the summary materials that suggested the relocation "will make that dual match the Bison’s fi..." — an apparent reference to the match being the program's first outdoor home match. Neither the Feb. 25 BucknellBison schedule nor the supplied Instagram caption explicitly used the phrase "first outdoor home match," so that characterization remains tied to the announcement language and should be treated as attributed to the schedule change.

Coaching and roster context in the pre-change BucknellBison item listed players available for the weekend: Natalie Devraj, Summer Even-Esh, Riley Jennings, Cameron King, Whitney King, Anna Lajos, Mirra Manolov, Caroline Marcus, Abby Platt, Katherine Purpura, and Mariana Shulman. Student coverage in The Bucknellian separately documents doubles pairings Whitney King ’25 and Abby Platt ’26 and Anna Lajos ’25 and Mirra Manolov ’26; a Bucknellian passage describes a match against Duquesne that ended 4-3 with Bucknell taking the doubles point and two singles points, while Duquesne won four singles matches at the top positions. That Bucknellian passage also records doubles scores of 6-2 (King/Platt) and 6-3 (Lajos/Manolov) and should not be conflated with the Feb. 28 scheduling update.

After the weekend on campus, Bucknell’s athletics preview listed a spring-break travel window: the Bison depart for Hawaii to face Hawaii in Manoa on Sunday, March 8 at 6 p.m. ET and Chaminade in Honolulu on Monday, March 9 at 5 p.m. ET. The schedule update shifting the Duquesne match to the Varsity Tennis Courts and noon start time rearranges local access for fans and team logistics immediately before that planned trip.