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2023-24: Team captain.... Winner of the women's Bobcat Award at the inaugural CATSBYs.... Went 8-11 in singles play and 8-12 in doubles action as a senior for the Bobcats.... Advanced to the championship final of the Wallach Invitational in the fall with three straight wins, two of them over opponents from rival Colby (Sept. 9-10).... Advanced to the round of 32 at the ITA New England Championships with a 4-6, 6-2, 10-6 win over Bowdoin's Caroline Stuhlfaut (Sept. 22).... Played at No. 1 singles all spring.... Picked up a 6-2, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1 win over Annissa Mu of Wellesley College (March 16).... Defeated Connecticut College's Caitlin Cass by a count of 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 (March 24).... Swept Trinity's Josephine Kimball by a count of 6-3, 6-1 (April 6).... Earned an impressive 7-6 (8-6), 6-0 win over Bowdoin's Jamilah Karah (April 13).... Teamed with Iris Westmoreland '27 to win the doubles flight of the Wallach Invitational, picking up victories over opponents from Trinity and Colby along the way (Sept. 9-10).... Teamed with Julia Anderson '27 and advanced to the round of 32 with an 8-5 win over the Babson duo of Laetitia Rizk and Adele Fernandez at the ITA New England Champioship (Sept. 22).... Teamed with Westmoreland and played at No. 1 doubles throughout the spring season.... Earned a 6-3 win over Beatriz Costa and Laia Pasini of NCAA Division II opponent Florida Southern College (Feb. 22).... Earned an 8-3 victory over the Connecticut College duo of Courtney Banks and Maya Kowalska (March 24).... Notched an 8-5 victory over the Trinity College team of Ella Baker and Josephine Kimball (April 6).... Picked up an 8-3 win over the Endicott team of Lejla Guster and Ripley Uyeda (April 23).
2022-23: Went 11-12 in doubles and 10-11 in singles as a junior.... Played at No. 1 doubles with Joanna Atwater '23 all season.... Teamed with Atwater to advance to the finals of the Wallach Invitational in the fall.... The duo also advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA New England Championship.... Friedman and Atwater won five of six matches in the middle of the season, including wins over teams from No. 8 Tufts and No. 6 Middlebury.... Ended the year strong with an 8-6 victory over a team from Trinity College (April 16).... In singles, Friedman advanced to the ITA New England Championship round of 16 in the fall.... Earned a 6-3, 6-1 win at No. 2 singles in a 7-2 Bates victory over Endicott (Oct. 15).... Played mostly at No. 1 singles in the spring.... Picked up a 6-2, 6-2 victory in a 9-0 Bates win over Smith (March 3).... Earned a 6-0, 6-3 win in a 9-0 Bates victory over Mount Holyoke (March 15).... Prevailed 7-5, 2-6, 6-0 in a 6-3 Bates win over Wellesley (March 18).... Earned a hard-fought 7-6 (7-1), 2-6, 6-2 victory over opponent from No. 21 Hamilton (April 1).... Moved to No. 2 singles and defeated opponent from No. 4 Wesleyan by a count of 6-2, 4-6, 11-9 (April 8).... Finished the year strong with back-to-back wins at No. 2 singles over opponents from NESCAC foes Connecticut College and Trinity.
2021-22: Went 10-12 in doubles and 8-12 in singles in first full season for Bates.... Picked up a big 8-4 win at No. 1 doubles in a 5-4 victory for Bates over Hamilton, clinching the program's first bid to the NESCAC Championships (May 1).... Earned a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 3 singles against her opponent from Colby (April 16).... Teamed with Anna Rozin '22 and won six of seven doubles matches at No. 1 played between March 4 and April 3, including victories over NESCAC opponents Middlebury, Connecticut College, and Trinity.
2020-21: Debuted in an abbreviated season for the Bobcats with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 win at No. 4 singles in an 8-1 Bates victory over Trinity (April 18).
Before Bates: In 2018, Friedman founded THE BALL (Tennis Health Empowerment Building Attitudes Lifetime Lessons). THE BALL is a program designed to teach girls between the ages of seven and twelve about health, empowerment, mindfulness, and other skills using tennis. It has a dual purpose, both mental and physical catharsis. Friedman developed this program to give girls the opportunity to participate in activities they might not normally be exposed to. Her goal for the program is to reinforce ideas and skills about how to live a healthy and happy life, and to help strengthen their belief in themselves, the importance of being active, the idea that it is okay to be good at something, and the value of working hard.
During her second year running the program, Friedman created her own curriculum as well as managed her own publicity. The curriculum she created consisted of twelve weeks of detailed lesson plans and incorporated the importance of mindfulness and her use of sport (tennis) to teach girls empowerment. In June of 2020, Friedman was awarded the Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award for the work she has been doing. As an award-winner, she is now working with the Billie Jean King Foundation as well as Beyond Sport, (an organization that helps promote groups that focus on the use of sport to impact communities around the world), so that she can learn how to be the best leader she can be. After a few months of working side by side with them, Friedman was selected to be a part of UNITE 2030, and their Youth Delegate Program. UNITE 2030 is an organization that works with change makers all across the world between the ages of 18 and 30.
As a UNITE 2030 Youth Delegate, Friedman works to “connect local grassroots campaigns, amplify youth actions that are creating change, develop tools and programs to support young people everywhere to achieve the Global Goals and accelerate solutions to the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)” (UNITE 2030). This is done through participating in roundtable discussions, taking part in leadership workshops, hosting and being featured in panels and Global Youth Summits, participating in podcasts, doing interviews, and completing a leadership curriculum. Through this program, Friedman receives mentorship, experience, support, multitudes of resources, and gains countless connections.
Personal: 2020 graduate of Ross School (N.Y.).
