Frank Tarsitano calls her "All-American

But the Boston model agent's praise of Harvard senior Elizabeth Evans is more a result of her All-American looks than her All-American tennis skills.

With Tarsitano's praise the consensus of many experts. Evans have given up her Harvard tennis career-which included three years as the Crimson's top seed and three berths on the All Ivy squad-for the glamorous world of high fashion modeling.

That's quite a shift for the Harvard senior and California native, who with a top 20 national collegiate ranking a year ago led the Crimson to its first ever Ivy title and who seemed destined for even bigger things this year.

By quitting the Harvard squad Evans has obviously deals a major below to the Crimson's hopes of national prominence. But according to Harvard Coach Don Usher the team-which snagged its first Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) title this past weekend will have to learn to survive without her.

"We can't replace her," he said, "and we won't be as good nationally without her."

At the end of last season. Usher certainly didn't expect to have to fill such a gaping hope as his top spot.

But that all changed when Evans it received an offer she just couldn't refuse.

Along with 16,000 other aspiring models, the Mather House resident entered a Cosmopolitan over girl contest for the July 1984 issue.

An application that included an essay, a face shot and a bathing suit photo craned her a trip to New York for the competition's final round And although she could not attend-she was playing in a tennis tournament that weekend-the magazine selected Evans as the runner-up anyway.

She received $500 for her efforts and her bething suit photo appeared in Cosmo and in Tennis magazine.

But most importantly, her modeling career was off to a fast start and her tennis career was on the way out.

She subsequently joined Tarsitano's Network Modeling Agency and she's received numerous offers despite the fact that her portfolio has not yet been completed. And, according to Tarsitano, there's a "100 percent" chance, barring unforseen circumstances, that she will be with a large New York agency within a year.

Evans, however, is quick to point out that modeling was not the reason that she decided to give up tennis. "I'm tired of the time that tennis takes up," she said, citing here thesis takes up," she said citing her thesis as another consideration.

She added. "I just wasn't enjoying it."