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Dean and the Falcons posted a 13-9 overall record in the 2006-07 season, tying for fourth place in the Mid-American Conference with a 4-4 league mark. The Falcons, the fourth seed for the MAC Championships, battled back from a 3-0 deficit in the quarterfinal-round match to post a 4-3 win over Miami. In that match, four Falcons -- freshmen Katia Babina and Samantha Kintzel, sophomore Kelsey Jakupcin and senior Ashley Jakupcin -- picked up singles victories, with each knowing that a loss would end the Falcons' season. The Falcons advanced to the semifinal round of the 2007 MAC Championships before succumbing to the eventual tourney champs. Ashley Jakupcin was named to the All-MAC First Team and joined Stefanie Menoff on the Academic All-MAC Team. In the classroom, the Falcons were honored by the NCAA with a public recognition award for their latest Academic Progress Rate. The BG tennis squad was one of three Falcon teams to finish in the top-10 percent on their respective sport lists. Dean has led the Brown and Orange to double-digit win totals in 13 of her first 17 seasons, including in each of the last five campaigns. BGSU has posted double-digit win totals in five consecutive years for the first time in school history. BGSU had had four-straight seasons of 10 wins or more on two prior occasions (1988-89 to 1991-92 and 1996-97 through 1999-2000), with Dean at the Falcon helm for half of the first streak and all of the second. The 2005-06 Falcon squad reeled off a school-record 11-match winning streak en route to a 14-10 ledger. That came on the heels of a 12-10 overall mark the season prior, after the Falcons had recorded a total of 10 victories in 2003-04. In 2002-03, Dean's Falcons were picked to finish seventh in the MAC's preseason poll, but placed fifth with a 5-4 league record. That '02-03 squad posted a four-match winning streak, the team's longest in over two years, to end the regular season. All four wins came in MAC play, marking the team's longest conference regular-season winning streak in nearly two decades. Dean and the Falcons amassed a school-record 16 victories in 1998-99. Both that '98-99 team and the 1999-2000 squad tied the BGSU record for MAC wins in a season, each going 6-3 in league play. Prior to joining the Falcons, Dean spent eight years as the tennis director at the Toledo Country Club, while also serving as tennis professional at Shadow Valley Tennis Club in Maumee. Dean spent four years (1985-88) as head coach at The University of Toledo, leading the Rockets to fourth-place MAC finishes each year. Dean had a 46-44 dual-match record at UT. Her coaching background also includes stints with the Northwest Ohio Junior Wightman Cup (1977-81, 1983-85) and Midwest Federation Cup teams (2000-01). Dean was appointed by the governor to the Ohio Physical Fitness & Sports Advisory Board, serving a three-year stint. She also served as a tennis pro at the Toledo Racquet Club, holding that position from 1976-84. Dean has worked with the Ethel Parker multicultural tennis program for inner-city youth in Toledo for the past five summers. Dean is a 14-time winner of the Toledo City Championships, having collected five singles titles and nine doubles crowns. In October, 1998, her league team, competing at the 4.5 level, won the state and Midwest District playoffs and advanced to national play in Tucson, Ariz. A 1967 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in business administration, Dean played four years (1963-67) of tennis for the Wolverines. Dean and her husband, Bill, reside in Toledo. The couple has two children: Debby and Michael, a BGSU graduate.
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