Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy (born 28 December 1970) is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 tennis player. Primarily known for her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player at University of Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati

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, on 8 April 1995 and adopted his surname. Schultz is known for her fast serve

Serve (tennis)

A serve in tennis is a shot to start a point. A player begins a serve by tossing the ball into the air and hitting it into the diagonally opposite backside box without being stopped by the net. The ball can only touch the net on a return and will be considered good if it falls on the opposite side...

, holding the record for the fastest serve in the WTA Tour qualifications, tied with Venus Williams

Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...

. As of July 2009, she the second oldest active player on the WTA Tour after Kimiko Date Krumm.
Schultz' career high was in 1996 when she reached World No.