With the departure of five seniors from the women's tennis team, junior Ruth Copas will become the most tenured member of the New Mexico women's tennis program.
The Dublin, Ireland native will soon add even more experience to her résumé as she prepares for the upcoming 2017 Fed Cup after being selected to represent her country in the event.
Ireland is slated to compete in Group III and will play a round-robin format with the group's field containing four pools of four teams, according to fedcup.com. The winners of each pool will square off against each other to determine which two nations are promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2018.