A 1980 graduate of Southeastern Massachusetts University, Susan (Power) Tanner was the Corsairs' top women's tennis player throughout her four-year career.  During an era when the SMU women's tennis teams competed against schools like Boston University, Providence College and Holy Cross, Tanner dominated her opponents as the Corsairs' #1 singles player.  The best evidence of Tanner's stature in tennis is her personal winning streak which stretched across three seasons.  Entering her senior season, which was cut short due to a wrist injury, Tanner lost only one match in three seasons.  The streak started in her first season when a leg injury in the first set of a match led to a loss. Throughout the next three seasons and into her senior year she never lost another match.  During her senior season, Tanner won five matches and never lost a single set and was never forced into a tiebreaker.  With a playing style described by The Torch in a 1979 story as "mechanical grace and precision."  "She outlasts an opponent", wrote a Torch sportswriter during her final season.  "There is seemingly no ball she can not reach. Coordination. Anticipation. That is Sue Powers on a tennis court.  She draws her racquet back smoothly, evenly.  She waits for the ball to come to her and she just drives into it.  Legs, arms, shoulders work as a unit and the ball rockets back, meanly low, and explodes on the other court. Meanwhile, Sue Powers is already moving, ready for the return if there is one."