Gwynn Sammel's position in the history of North Texas tennis is clear: she is the benchmark, the standard by which all others are measured. And no one else has approached her heights.
Sammel is the winningest player in the history of North Texas tennis - and she owns that distinction by a vast margin. In her two seasons of intercollegiate tennis at North Texas, Sammel amassed 104 career victories in singles and doubles, 46 more than any other player in program history. Sammel ranks second in career singles wins with 52 and first in career doubles victories with 50, and she owns the top career-winning percentage in singles (.730) and doubles (.781).
She began her career at the tenuous dawn of the modern women's tennis program at North Texas. After the program's inaugural (and winning) season in 1978-79, Sammel led the team to a 32-9 dual-match mark in 1979-80, which remains the program best for wins in a season. There was no season in 1980-81, but the team returned in 1981-82 to post a 24-11 record. Those two teams remain the winningest in program history, and Sammel was the wins leader on both.
Sammel holds the top two spots for most single-season victories in singles with 28 in 1981-82 and 26 in 1979-80, and holds the same marks in doubles with 26 wins in 1981-82 and 24 in 1979-80. In the rest of the program's history, 20 wins has been reached only one other time.
In the 1979-80 season, Sammel went a combined 52-11 in singles and doubles. In 1981-82, she went 52-23. In all the other years of North Texas women's tennis, no other player has reached 30 combined wins in a season.