2020-21 Women's Tennis Roster
Biography
Honors
• ITA/NAIA All-America in 2019-20
• ITA National Player of the Week (Feb. 24-March 1, 2020)
• Louisiana Freshman of the Year in 2019-20
• Second-team All-Louisiana in 2019-20
• XULA Female Newcomer of the Year in 2019-20
Briefly
• Second year at XULA
• Left-hander
2020-21 (Sophomore)
• Went 4-0 in singles and 3-0 in doubles in the season-opening ITA NAIA Gulf Regional Championships at XULA Oct. 2-4 and qualified in both for the ITA Oracle Cup Oct. 16-18 at Rome, Ga.
• Teamed with Angela Charles-Alfred to defeat William Carey's William Carey's Valeriya Shubrina and Sabrina Goetzen 6-4, 6-2 in the Gulf Regional doubles final Oct. 4, 2020
• Defeated teammate Kyra Akinnibi 6-2, 6-4 in the Gulf Regional singles final Oct. 4, 2020
2019-20 (Freshman)
• Teamed with Angela Charles-Alfred to win XULA's first-ever ITA Cup small-college national title
• 46-4 for the season — 21-2 in singles and 25-2 in doubles — and was unbeaten during the spring semester, winning 10 decisions apiece in singles and doubles
• Teamed with Angela Charles-Alfred to defeat UCLA's 37th-ranked Abi Altick and Taylor Johnson 6-1, 6-4 in the consolation round of the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships at Newport Beach, Calif., on Nov. 7, 2019
• ITA/NAIA end-of-season rankings: No. 16 in singles, No. 1 in doubles with Angela Charles-Alfred . . . It was the first-ever final ITA No. 1 ranking for XULA tennis, women or men
• Won four doubles titles during the fall: HBCU National Championships, ITA NAIA South Regional, ITA Cup NAIA and ITA Cup Small College
• ITA Cup victories were voted the No. 1 women's achievement of 2019-20 in an ITA fan poll/bracket playoff
• The Louisiana Freshman of the Year honor made her the second XULA women's tennis player to win a Louisiana Sports Writers Association major award and the first since Anastesia Opata was Newcomer of the Year in 2008
• First-ever recipient of the Universal Tennis Ratings ITA National Player of the Week among NAIA women after going 4-0 in singles and 5-0 in doubles (with Angela Charles-Alfred) at the LSUA Invitational in Alexandria, La.
• Helped XULA go 10-1 in dual matches and reach No. 3 in the final NAIA coaches poll
• Helped XULA go 4-0 in duals against top-25 schools, including 2-0 against No. 12 LSUA
High School
• Won individual championships in the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools four straight years — including a doubles title in 2019 with Emory Laseter — and helped Jackson Academy's Lady Raiders win four consecutive state team titles
• Also starred in basketball at Jackson Academy and helped the Lady Raiders win three consecutive state championships
• MAIS AAAA-I Player of the Year her senior basketball season
• Made the honor roll multiple times
• Member of National Honor Society and French National Honor Society
Amateur
• 2018 Mississippi Tennis Association Female Player of the Year
• Winner of approximately 50 age-group singles and doubles championships, including a Southern Closed singles title in 2011
• Four-star recruit on TennisRecuriting.net
Personal
• Enjoys skateboarding
Favorites
Food: Pizza
Candy: Milk Duds
Pizza toppings: Chicken, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, olives
Ice cream flavor: Mint chocolate chip
Cake: Chocolate with vanilla icing
Flower: Lilac
Color: Any pastel (blue, yellow, coral, lilac)
Vacation destination: Mykonos
Statistics
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