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The ACC Player of the Year in women’s tennis is also a budding artist.
Reese Brantmeier, who is 5-foot-7 and from Whitewater, Wisconsin, is completing her junior year at UNC as first-team All-ACC and honorable All-American tennis star.
This weekend, the ACC tennis champion Tar Heels open the NCAA tournament with the first three rounds at the Chewning Center. If the Heels win all three, including the Super Regional (also here) they will reach another Final Four in Waco, Texas. Brian Kalbas’ fifth-seeded team is in Carolina’ 26th consecutive NCAA tourney entry.
Reese wants to play professional tennis and has an obvious interest in a second satisfying, competitive career. Breaking Point is Brantmeier’s mostly screen-printed mix-arts display which is open for all interpretation.
“As both an artist and Division I athlete, this work emerges from my intersection between an expression, highlighting the empowering yet vulnerable nation of sport,” Reese says on her display narrative.
“The act of building this piece echoed the demands of sport itself. The repetition, rigor and physicality inherent in screen printing. . . we build identity and security around something innately delicate and fleeting in the name of a nebulous promise of success.”
She adds, “Some of these screenprints are personal images, reflecting the injuries acquired over my years of sport.”
UNC’s Reese Brantmeier with “Breaking Point,” which can be seen in the Allcot Gallery lobby of the Hanes Art Center.
As the top-ranked high school player in Wisconsin, Brantmeier had a list of colleges and only made two visits, the second to Chapel Hill. She loved the weather and the multi-faced art department at Carolina.
She finished the 2023 season with a 22-4 record in singles and 28-7 in doubles, ending ranked No. 1 in singles and No. 9 in doubles with her partner Elizabeth Scotty. She has already won more than $100,000 in prize money and retained her college eligibility.
She did not play in the fall of 2022 to avoid being ruled ineligible by the NCAA for collecting prize money during high school; she later filed suit against the NCAA to try to change that rule.
At the 2023 NCAA Championships, Brantmeier helped Carolina win its first national team title. Playing in the No. 1 spot in place of Fiona Crawley, she beat multiple ranked players during their title run, including national No. 3 Lea Ma of Georgia in the semifinals.
Brantmeier also collected individual and singles ITA championships in 2023-24 season, then tore her meniscus during the national team indoor championship, ruling her out for the season.
But she’s back. . . chasing excellence in art and sport.
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Featured image via UNC Athletic Communications/Jerome M. Ibrahim
Art Chansky is a veteran journalist who has written ten books, including best-sellers “Game Changers,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The Dean’s List.” He has contributed to WCHL for decades, having made his first appearance as a student in 1971. His “Sports Notebook” commentary airs daily on the 97.9 The Hill WCHL and his “Art’s Angle” opinion column runs weekly on Chapelboro.Chapelboro.com does not charge subscription fees, and you can directly support our efforts in local journalism here. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by signing up for our newsletter.
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