Austin Peay State University Athletics

Awards and Honors

OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll: 2019-20, 2020-21

Dean’s List: F20

Athletic Director’s Honor Roll: F19, S20, F20, S21, S22

ITA Scholar-Athlete: 2020-21

Career Recap: Austin Peay

As a senior in 2021-22:

Spring Season 

• Won eight singles and six doubles matches.
• After dropping her first five singles matches, won four of five matches from March 4 to April 9.
• Won three-straight singles matches from April 15 to April 22, with a pair of victories coming in straight sets.
• Defeated Murray State’s Gabriel Geolier to pick up the penultimate point in the Governors’ comeback victory in the OVC Championship semifinals.
• Finished her Austin Peay career with 30 singles and 23 doubles victories.

Fall Season

• Went 1-3 in singles and 2-2 in doubles through four fall tournaments.
• Picked up a pair of doubles victories alongside freshman Yu-Hua Cheng at the UCA 2nd Fall Invitational.

Won her final singles match of the fall, a three-set (6-4, 3-6, 10-4) victory over North Alabama’s Makayla Loubser.As a junior in 2020-21:

Spring Season

• Went 9-6 in singles, playing in both the No. 4 and No. 5 position.
• Dropped a pair of doubles matches to start OVC play before partnering with Jana Leder to win four-straight decisions from the No. 2 position.
• Played all but one doubles match alongside Leder in the No. 2 position, positing a 7-4 mark as a duo.
• Defeated Southeast Missouri’s Ksenia Shikanova to pick up the penultimate point in the Governors’ comeback victory in the OVC Tournament Championship.

As a sophomore in 2019-20:

Spring Season

• Posted a 5-4 singles mark while playing on both the No. 4 and No. 5 lines.
• Won 6-0, 6-1 in a match against Southern Arkansas, Jan. 25, to pick up her first dual win as a Gov.
• Recorded a 7-2 mark in doubles play, partnering exclusively with Fabienne Schmidt in the No. 2 position.
• Went on a six-match doubles winning streak with Schmidt after the duo dropped their first match of the spring.

Fall Season

• Went 7-2 during singles action in fall tournament play.
• Won her first match as a Governors in the first round of the Flight B Singles Draw at the APSU Fall Invitational.
• Picked up her first doubles win as a Gov while playing with Martina Paladini-Jennings in the quarterfinals of the Flight One Doubles Draw at the APSU Fall Invitational.
• Won five-straight matches at the ITA Ohio Valley Regionals to advance to the Flight B Singles Finals, where she finished as the runner up.

Prior to Austin Peay
Originally from London, the sophomore-transfer spent her freshman year at Memphis… She posted an 8-18 singles record and a 5-11 doubles record during her year as a Tiger… Prior to her time at Memphis, she won the U18 in Great Britain… Was also a top-25 player in her native country.

Personal
Daughter of Obren and Jelena Topalovic… has two siblings, Sanja and Ivana… born July 17… an Exercise Science major.