| Year: | 2024 |
| Team: | Women's Tennis |
A four-year letterwinner, Jennifer Nelson was an all-around player, who the team wanted out on the court when the match was tied.
A staple on the blue-and-gold’s top courts as a freshman, she led the Rams to 5-4 overall record in 2004, which included a 5-3 mark versus Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) competition.
It was her sophomore and junior campaigns, respectively, that solidified Nelson’s spot as an all-time Suffolk great. Not only did the squad improve on their win totals with a 7-5 ledger in 2005 and an 8-5 record in 2006, but she proved to be a fierce competitor in the upper half of the singles ladder and a main ingredient on a top doubles team. For that, she took home back-to-back GNAC Player of the Year honors, the first Ram in program history to do so. On top of that, she scooped up a pair of All-GNAC First-Team recognitions as well in each of those seasons.
Nelson proved to save her best for last. She was an integral part to the unforgettable and unbeaten 2007 team, that posted a 14-0 record, and captured the GNAC regular-season and tournament titles. The productive force in both singles and doubles play pushed the Rams to the NCAA Tournament for the first time.
The squad was not the only success story in 2007 as Nelson competed in the third singles flight as a senior at the New England Championships. At regionals, she won the first round before ultimately being eliminated in the second.
October will be the second time Nelson hears her name called as part of Suffolk’s University’s Hall of Fame Class as she was enshrined alongside her 2007 teammates, the most successful women’s tennis squad in University history, in 2016.