“This is my third season coaching Jessica” said T. Richard “Dickie” Mahaffey, UDC’s head men’s and women’s tennis coach. “She is a great athlete and a fierce competitor. In spite of all of her success to-date, she continues to strive for excel- lence and work hard to improve her skills. Her leadership on the court is invaluable.”
Nunez says she chose UDC because it had a great engineer- ing program and because she loves playing tennis. However, traveling with the team on game days often takes her away from the classroom. “I miss a lot of classes, but I catch up during my free time,” said Nunez. Nunez maintains a 3.40 GPA and earned a place on the 1st Team of the ECC in 2011, winning the UDC women’s tennis team Most Valuable Player award.
Making the MVP presentation to Nunez April 2011 in Wash- ington D.C., Coach Mahaffey said she had “proved herself to be one of the top players in the NCAA Division II East Region.” Nunez was 14-5 overall in singles and 7-0 in the ECC. She was 12-9 in doubles play. A month before the 2011 ceremony, the UDC Firebirds athletics program had been accepted into National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) East Coast Conference Division II—the first time the UDC’s Firebirds were officially affiliated with an NCAA conference.
In 2012, Nunez, the five foot seven athlete from Guayaquil, Ecuador, was 10-4 overall and 5-2 in the ECC in singles play. She advanced to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Regional Quarterfinals and was named to All-ECC 1st Team for a 3rd straight year. Nunez was 8-4 in doubles play.
Bria Crawford, civil engineering major and rising junior, Howard University
Kendra Greene, associate director of Athletics for Academics and senior women’s administrator, says “Jessica is a leader in the classroom in her chosen major of electrical engineering as well as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council. She brings a level of professionalism to her studies that will elevate her to endless possibilities when it comes to career op- portunities.”
Nunez started playing at four, in her native Ecuador, and was voted best player there in 2009. A 2010 high school grad of Colegio Americano Guayaquil, she competed in tennis, swim- ming, volleyball and track & field. She was a swimmer and volleyball player of the year for three consecutive years and was athlete of the year for those three years, ranking number two in her province in tennis and sixth nationally in tennis. Nunez’s parents, Victor Hugo Nunez and Alexandra Mendoza, her brother, Victor (12) and sister Johanna Nunez (24), also an electrical engineering major, all live in Guayaquil, the larg- est and most populous city in Ecuador with about 3.5 million people.
No doubt about it, Nunez has her sights set on technology but surprisingly not aerodynamic racquets. A keen music fan, she’d rather make digital things like personal audio and phones, computers and tablets, e-readers, cameras and cam- corders at Sony or Apple. “I love tennis,” she explains “but at some point you get old.”
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John Miles, chemical engineering major, Prairie View A&M University
The class of 2013 graduate will have plenty of options to choose with a major in Electrical Engineering. The Sony Corporation alone is made up of 8 different divisions, Sony Electronics, Sony Pictures, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Computer Enter- tainment, Sony New Media, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Mobile Communications, all of which require expertise in Electrical Engineering.
—Lango Deen,
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