Yang Selected to CSC Academic All-America Women's Tennis Team

June 3 – (AUSTIN, Texas) – Carnegie Mellon University women's tennis senior Sarah Yang has been named to the Academic All-America® women's tennis team as selected by the College Sports Communicators. Yang was selected to the second team after earning third-team honors last year.

This prestigious award for Yang marks the sixth time a Carnegie Mellon women's tennis athlete has earned Academic All-America recognition, as she joins Lindy Cornwall (2021, 2022) and Katie Cecil (2013, 2014) as two-time honorees.

Yang graduated in May with a degree in electrical and computer engineering with a 3.75 grade point average and will start full-time employment at Google as a software engineer. She spent the 2024 summer as a software engineer intern at Bloomberg after holding the same role at Freddie Mac in 2023. A three-year teaching assistant for electrical and computer engineering, Yang also was an undergraduate researcher for CMU in 2022 and a python engineer for the Languages Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science.

Yang finished her collegiate career with a 10-7 singles record this season for a career record of 74-23. She also tallied a 23-11 career record in doubles play. This year, Yang was ranked as high as 38th nationally and ninth regionally in singles, playing mostly in the second position for the team. She was also selected to play in the NCAA Singles Championship for the fourth time.