SKILLMAN, N.J. -- The Slippery Rock University women's tennis team added two more gems to its collective crown when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced its final Division II rankings of the 2010 season.

The Rock was ranked 30th as team and senior Laura Handy earned a No. 43 ranking among singles player in the final rankings released Wednesday.

The final team ranking represented a four-spot improvement over SRU's No. 34 spot in the May 4 poll and a 10-spot jump from the Green and White's No, 40 preseason ranking (Nov. 6, 2009).

The Rock finished the 2008-09 season ranked 29th.

The ascent in the poll during the just-completed season came as the result of SRU winning one of the two Atlantic Regional championships, earning a first-ever berth in the national quarterfinals and claiming runner-up honors in both the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division and PSAC Championships competitions.

The Green and White compiled a 22-6 win-loss record in 2009-10 to conclude the best four-year period in SRU women's tennis history. The Rock surpassed the 20-win mark in each of the last four seasons with a school-record 23 wins in 2006-07 and 22 wins in each of the last three seasons, and won 80% of its dual matches (89-21 record) since the fall of 2006.

Handy, who hails from Upper St. Clair and one of three seniors on this year's Rock squad, was a prime contributor to that success. She won 173 matches during her four-year collegiate career to finish third on the SRU career wins chart. Along the way, she collected three All-PSAC-West first-team honors and was named as the ITA Atlantic Regional "Senior Player of the Year" this spring after being honored as the ITA's regional "Rookie of the Year" in 2007.

Handy is the first Rock player to earn spot on the final national singles ranking since 2004, when Jessica Bungo held the No. 21 spot.