the titans women's varsity tennis team first started competing in the 1967–68 academic school year the year coach scheel's first came to csuf and finished eight in their conference. scheel had a titan tennis team/program financial budget when she started of $100.00 for the season. scheel was a professor of kinesiology and health promotion at fullerton and was a grad from la verne college now known as (university of la verne) she was also after her tennis coaching career at fullerton was the president of western society of physical education of college women for academic year 1984–85 this society was founded in 1921 and deals with issues and concerns related to disciplines in higher education and human movement the group of women represents colleges from the western territory of canada to hawaii to utah and down to arizona she was a well rounded collegiate coach. the 1970 titan squad had a record finish of first in the conference in only their third year of competing in collegiate women's tennis. in 1972, coach virginia scheel's titans had an undefeated women's tennis season, according to the coach. in the 1973 csuf women's season, scheel's team, led by number 1 singles player a former transfer student-athlete from fullerton junior college hornets sue marta, had a victory, defeating the usc trojans in that year also the titans women's tennis program also moved up in league class to the "a" bracket. marta also had a career high impressive victory over cal state l.a. golden eagle tina watanabe their number 1 player on the team and a 1973 ncaa national collegiate singles tournament finalists that was held in auburn, alabama watanabe had victories on the women's pro circuit over tracy austin, steffi graf and monica seles and had a world singles ranking of 79th at one point in her professional career. another standout titan tennis player on that 1973 team is michelle rauland who after competing on that '73 team in january 1974 competed with the professional women