.BATON ROUGE, La.– LSU women’s tennis head instructor Taylor Fogleman announced on Thursday that Addison Lanton, a native of Elgin, Illinois, has actually authorized with LSU for autumn 2025.” Our team are actually enjoyed sign a player and also individual of Addison’s capacity to the program,” pointed out Fogleman. “At such a youthful age, she has actually currently obtained an astonishing quantity. Our team are therefore grateful to her moms and dads, Robert and also Collete, for leaving our team along with her development.
I recognize Tiger Nation is actually going to appreciate viewing her compete next August.”.Lanton, the No. 1 player in Illinois, is a senior at ICL Institute, positioned 18th across the country for the training class of 2025, as well as dedicates to the Bayou Bengals for the autumn of 2025.Her recent accomplishments consist of placing fourth at the USTA Spring Season National Championships and also succeeding the 2023 Illinois Condition Singles Ping Pong Champion. In secondary school play, Lanton has not dropped a set in the IHSA competition given that 2021.In 2023, Lanton acquired the Junior Female Gamer of the Year honor from the USTA Chicago District Ace Awards.
She won the first-place title in every age she competed in, winding up with the 18U in the summer of that year.In August, Lanton contended in the ITA National Summer Season Championships in Memphis, TN. The Illinois native positioned as a quarterfinalist, highlighted through removing the No. 2 seed in the competition, Duke’s Emma Jackson.For more details on the LSU ladies’s ping pong program, comply with the Tigers on Twitter @lsuwten, Instagram @LSUWTen, and Facebook.com/ lsuwten.