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Janet DiTullio's tennis career began when she
was four years old. She played tennis for hours, hitting
tennis balls off the backboard at the Midland Tennis Courts
located by her family home.
Janet started competing in tennis in 1986
at Beaver Area High School, playing 2nd singles her freshmen
year and 1st singles her sophomore, junior, and senior
years. She achieved a singles record of 60-4. In her senior
year in 1989, Janet captured both the section singles title
and the section doubles title. Also, the Beaver Area Girls'
Tennis Team won the section title in 1989. Janet was
selected as a Super Grad by the Beaver County Times in 1990.
In addition to high school tennis, Janet played in United
States Tennis Association Tournaments, earning a ranking of
8th in the Allegheny Mountain region and 37th in the Middle
States region. She was a Silver Medalist in the Keystone
State Games.
During her time at Geneva College, Janet
specialized in winning on the tennis court. She played first
singles and first doubles all four years and recorded 106
victories during her amazing collegiate tennis career,
including a 54-8 overall record in singles and a 52-6
overall record in doubles. Janet was District Tournament
Doubles Champion in 1990, 1991, and 1992, and District
Tournament Singles Champion in 1991, 1992, and 1993. Janet
participated in the NAIA National Tournament all four years
and helped the Geneva Women's Tennis Team advance to the
national tournament in 1991 and 1992.
After graduating from Geneva College in
1994, Janet became the Head Women's Tennis Coach at Geneva,
where she coached until 2001. Her 1997-1998 tennis team was
named the Keystone Empire Collegiate Conference Champions
and the Northeast Region Champions, and in 1997 Janet was
named the KECC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year.
Janet has coached girls' tennis at Beaver
Area High School for 18 years. From 1999 to 2002, she was
the Girls' Varsity Assistant Tennis Coach. In 2001 and 2002,
the Girls' Varsity Tennis teams won the Section 2
Championship, the MAC Championship, and the WPIAL
Championship, and competed at the PIAA Tournament. Since
2004, Janet has been the head coach of the Beaver Area
Girls' Junior Varsity Tennis team.
Janet was inducted into the inaugural
class of the Geneva College Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 and
was inducted into the Midland Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
Janet resides in Beaver and is currently a
guidance counselor with the Beaver Area School District.
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