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Honors and Awards
2024: ACC Excellence Award recipient…all-ACC second team (singles)…all-ACC second team (doubles)…All-ACC Academic Team…ACC Doubles Team of the Week with Kate Sharabura (March 5)…ITA Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award national winner…ITA Southeast Regional Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award recipient…At-large bids to NCAA singles and doubles championship…Compiled a 20-15 overall singles record, including a 14-7 dual mark…Finished with a 7-6 record against ACC opponents…Held down the No. 1 position all season…Opened the dual season winning first four matches…Defeated No. 6 Ayana Akli of South Carolina in a pair of sets…Pocketed first ACC win of the season at Syracuse…Picked up a win on senior day against No. 30 Casie Wooten of Wake Forest in straight-sets…Won three of final four matches…Downed No. 30 Sabina Zeynaolva of Texas in first round action of the NCAA Tournament…Combined to go 20-11 overall in doubles…Partnered with Kate Sharabura majority of the season to post an 18-9 doubles record…Pair went 16-5 in dual action and 8-3 against ACC opponents…Doubles team entered the national rankings in February and climbed as high as No. 11 in April…Finished the season ranked No. 22 nationally in doubles…Fall: Compiled a 6-8 singles mark and 4-6 doubles record in tournament action…Reached the semifinals of ITA Southeast Regionals.
2023: ITA Singles All-American…all-ACC first team…Earned bid to NCAA Singles Championship and made run to the quarterfinals…Finished the season ranked No. 14 in ITA National Rankings (May 31)…Climbed as high as No. 7 in the country in singles (March 21)…Spent the entire season ranked in the top 16 nationally…Finished with a 29-12 overall singles record…Produced a 17-14 overall doubles mark…Went 17-7 in dual singles action all from the No. 1 position and was 8-5 against ACC opponents in singles…Won first nine singles matches to open the spring slate before falling in a hard-fought match against top-ranked UNC…Clinched Tech’s 7-0 win at Louisville with a straight-set win over Andrea DiPalma…Helped Tech make a run to the ACC Tournament semifinals, collecting wins over Syracuse (Zeynep Erman) and Cameron Morra of Duke…Defeated Marie Mattel of UCF in the first round of the NCAA Championships, helping Tech secure a spot in the second round…Topped Mattel for the third time during the season in the round of 64 of the NCAA Singles Championships to begin her run to the quarters…Also defeated Elza Tomase (Tennessee) and Carolyn Ansari (Auburn) before meeting Amelia Rajecki (NC State) in the quarterfinals…Fall: Captured the ITA Southeast Regionals doubles title with Kate Sharabura to clinch a spot in the ITA National Fall Championships…Also secured a singles berth to the fall championships, reaching the final match of ITA Southeast Regionals in singles…Advanced to the semifinals in singles of the ITA National Fall Championships before falling to UNC’s Fiona Crawley…Compiled a 12-5 singles record and 7-2 doubles mark during tournament play.
2022: ITA Doubles All-American…all-ACC first team…all-ACC academic team…ACC Academic Honor Roll…Climbed as high as No. 4 in ITA National doubles rankings with teammate Kate Sharabura…Rose as high as No. 22 in the ITA National singles rankings…Led Tech from the No. 1 position, going 25-8 overall in singles and 22-6 in doubles…Was 17-3 in dual match play in doubles and 18-5 in dual singles play…Opened spring going 12-of-13 singles matches, including six ACC wins…Won four-of-five final singles matches extending into NCAA Singles Championship…Won first 11 doubles matches of spring campaign with Sharabura, including first six ACC matches…Defeated No. 12 Morgan Coppoc and Ania Hertel of Georgia, 6-3…Topped Boston College and Miami with Sharabura in ACC Tournament action…Fall: Compiled an 8-5 singles and 9-3 doubles record in fall tournament action…Won first four singles matches extending into ITA Southeast Regionals…Captured doubles title with Kate Sharabura in Debbie Southern Furman Fall Classic…Went 2-1 in singles and 2-1 in doubles with Sharabura at John Cade Invitational to closeout fall.
2020-21: ACC Academic Honor Roll…ITA Scholar-Athlete…Put together a 14-12 overall singles record and 7-13 doubles mark her freshman season…Compiled a 12-12 dual singles record and was 7-4 against ACC opponents…Won first three singles matches to open collegiate campaign…Pocketed first ACC win over Miami’s Nada Dimovska, 6-2, 6-3, from No. 6 singles…Topped NC State’s Abigail Rencheli in three sets, 6-7 (3), 6-0, 6-4…Went 2-1 in ACC Tournament in singles play…Captured wins against Virginia Tech’s Rita Pinto, 6-1, 6-2, and NC State’s Rencheli, 6-2, 6-1…Cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 triumph over Makenna Jones of North Carolina in ACC Tournament title match…Partnered with Gia Cohen to go 3-3 in doubles play…Was 2-9 in doubles with Monika Dedaj…Cruised to a 6-0 win over Georgia Southern in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with Dedaj.
PREP: Attended Penn Foster High School in Scranton, Penn….Has captured 12 ITF Junior singles and doubles titles…Reached highest ITF Jr. ranking of 114 in singles and doubles…Won title in ITF Jr. Grade 3 singles in Casablanca, Morocca in March 2019…Advanced to third round of singles in the JB1 Seogqipo tournament in Korea…In Aug. 2019, reached main draw quarterfinal of the J2 Tweed Heads tournament in Australia and semifinal of JB2 Lautoka in Fiji…Captured singles title in June 2019 at the J4 Lautoka tournament, pocketing five straight-set wins.
PERSONAL: First player in her country (Northern Mariana Islands) to qualify for two Grand Slam Junior tournaments, competing in 2019 Australian Open Junior Championships and 2019 US Open Junior Championships…Started playing tennis at six years old when her father taught her…Lists most memorable athletic achievement as winning her first ITF Jr. title in singles in New Caledonia in June 2017…Intends to major in business administration at Georgia Tech…Chose Georgia Tech because of the community, academic opportunities and tennis program.
MAJOR: Business Administration
