USD Women's Tennis 2000

I KATARINA VALKYOVA

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KATARINA VALKYOVA 5'9" Sophomore - Bratislava, Slovakia 1999 NCAA All-America & NCAA Quarterfinalist Katarina Valkyova enters her second season with the USD tennis program ... from Bratislava, Slovakia, Katarina joined the Toreros program for the Spring semester in January of 1999 ... she compiled one of the program's best ever showings for a freshman , advancing to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Singles Championships to earn All-America honors ... Katarina defeated players from Notre Dame, Stanford and Geor– gia to advance to the quarterfinals where she was turned back by teammate and eventual

NCAA champion Zuzana Lesenarova (5-7, 6-2, 6-3) ... in her first round victory at the NCAA's, Katarina upset Michelle Dasso of Notre Dame (0-6, 6-3, 6-3) ... she finished with an overall singles record of 22-7 for a final national ranking of #37 in the nation; as a doubles team with Zuzana Lesenarova, the duo went 14-6 overall, including a semifinal appearance

at the NCAA Doubles Championships, and finished ranked #9 in the nation ... additional honors from her freshman campaign included being named the ITA Doubles Team of the Month for March with Lesenarova; and shewas namedAll-West Coast Con– ference in both singles and doubles ... Valkyova is already off to a great sophomore season -- during the Fall season she advanced to the final for both singles and doubles at the T. Rowe Price National Clay CourtChampionships ... she defeated players from South Alabama, Virginia Commonwealth, Georgia and Missis– sippi beforefallingtoLesenarovainthechampic · '1ip;shetearned with Lesenarova to defeat teams from Rice, Georgia and LSU

before falling in the championship to

South Alabama's Ondrejkova-Puflerova, 6-4, 6-2 ... three weeks later at the RivieraAll-American Championships, KatarinaandZuzana teamed up to win theirfirstlTAGrand SlamDoubles title; they defeated teams from Cal, Stanford, and Mississippi before handing Stanford's duo ofAshley-Granville a 6-4, 6- 1setback for the championship ... as a doubles team, Valkyova and Lesenarova head into the 'Spring season with a national ranking of#2; Katarina was ranked #25 in the pre-season rankings, but after her strong showing at the Clay Courts, she jumped to #3 ... at the Riviera All-American Championships, she was bounced in the second round and her ranking went to #20 ... Katarina enters the 2000 Spring season with an overall record of 58-18 (33-10 singles; 25-8 doubles) ... having played tennis since the age of six, Katarina came to USO with quite a few tennis achievements to her credit ... she won the 1996 Euro– pean Junior's Team Championship in France; the European Junior's Champi– onship in doubles in Austria for U-16; won the 1994 lntemational Children's Olympic Games in Canada; won the Slovak National Championship for U– l6s; and won the Slovak National Championship in women's category in 1997 ... chose USO for its strong academics and tennis program ... prepped at the Sport Grammar School in Bratislava where she graduated in May, 1998 .. . her favorite subjects were foreign languages and geography ... besides tennis, enjoys swimming, reading and traveling .. . parents are Miroslav and Oarina Valkyova of Bratislava, Slovakia. Major: Business Administration. 2000 University of San Diego Women's Tennis -- Home to Zuzana Lesenarova, /999 NCAA Division I National Champion