Austin Peay State University Athletics

Awards and Honors

2021-22 First Team All-OVC

2021-22 All-OVC Doubles Team

OVC Player of the Week: April 19, 2022

OVC Doubles Team of the Week: April 12, 2022

2022-23 Third Team All-ASUN
2024-25 Second Team All-ASUN

Dean’s List: F21, S22, F22, S23, F23, S24, F24, S25

Career Recap: Austin Peay

As a senior in 2024-25

• A second team All-ASUN team selection.
• Compiled an 18-10 overall singles record, with a 13-5 spring record and 5-5 fall record.
• Went 13-5 from the No. 2 position and went 7-1 in ASUN play.
• Won eight of her last ten singles matchups, including a 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) win over North Alabama’s Ada Karabacak in the first round of the ASUN tournament, April 17.
• Had a 17-12 doubles record, with a 8-9 record in spring play and a 9-3 record in the fall.
• Went 7-9 from the first court and a 3-3 ASUN record.

As a junior in 2023-24

• Compiled a 18-11 overall singles record, going 11-8 in the spring and 7-3 in the fall.
• Played primarily from the No. 2 spot, going 11-5.
• Had an 8-2 singles record in ASUN play.
• Went 16-11 in doubles matches with a 10-8 record from the first court.
• Had a 10-8 spring season record and an 6-3 fall season record
• Played primarily with Sophia Baranov on the first court, going 14-10 overall and 6-3 in ASUN matches.

As a freshman in 2021:

Spring Season

• Became the first freshman since 2015 to lead the Governors in total victories, finishing with 11 singles and 11 doubles wins while playing most of the season at the No. 1 position in each category.
• Became the first player in program history to defeat a reigning ITA All-American after winning a three-set match against Kentucky’s Fiona Arrese, Feb. 20.
• Elevated to the No. 1 singles position after her win at Kentucky, where she won 10 of her next 11 matches. 
• Went undefeated against the previous two OVC Players of the Year in Eastern Illinois’ Rachel Papavasilopoulous (April 9) and Southeast Missouri’s Romana Tarajova (April 16), both of which were 2022 First Team All-OVC selections.
• Exclusively played alongside Honoka Nakanishi in doubles, where the tandem won a team-best 11 matches and went 9-3 after being elevated to the No. 1 position, March 8.
• Won nine-straight doubles matches from March 4 to April 22, outscoring opponents 54-17 and allowing four or more games just once in that span.
• Became the first freshman in program history to be named the OVC Women’s Tennis Player of the Week, April 19.
• The fifth freshman in program history to be named First Team All-OVC.
• Named the 13th unique All-OVC Doubles Team selection in program history alongside Nakanishi – the first since Susan Sheather and Andrea Hede in 1994.

Fall Season

• Impressed in her first action as a Governor, leading the team with an 8-1 singles record through four fall tournaments with a 4-3 doubles record.
• Defeated Belmont’s Somer Henry – an All-OVC First Team selection from the spring – in straight sets (6-4, 6-1) during her collegiate debut at the APSU Fall Tournament.
• Went on to win her first four singles matches of the fall, including a 3-0 singles record at the UCA 2nd Fall Invitational.
• After suffering her lone singles loss of the fall in the first round of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Ohio Valley Regionals, went on to pick up a pair of 6-0, 6-0 victories to finish her stay at the event.
• Won both of her singles matches at the UNA Fall Invitational in straight sets to pick up her seventh and eighth wins of the season.
• Won her first two doubles matches of the fall alongside Jana Leder.
• Won two of her last three doubles matches of the fall, including an 8-6 victory at the ITA Ohio Valley Regionals against UT Martin’s Sina Albersmeier and Mizuki Sakurai while playing alongside Danielle Morris.

Prior to Austin Peay
Prepped at Privatgymnasuim Schwetzingen… Was the 2020 Hessen U18 State Champion and the 2019 U16 State Champion… Won the International Tennis Federation grade 4 junior doubles championship in Overath in 2020… Climbed to as high as No. 733 in the ITF Junior Rankings in January of 2021.

Personal
Daughter of Veronica Torrealba and Jens Szymzsak… has one sibling, Noah… born Jan. 26.