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2024-25 Women's Tennis Roster

Hedda Gurholt

  • Class Senior
  • Height 5-6
  • Hometown Oslo, Norway
  • High School Wang Toppidrett

Biography

Honors and Awards
CAA Player of the Year (2023, 2024)
CAA Rookie of the Year (2022)
All-CAA First Team in singles (2023, 2024, 2025)
All-CAA First Team in doubles (2025)
All-CAA Second Team in singles (2022)
All-CAA Second Team in doubles (2022)
VaSID All-State First Team in singles (2023)
VaSID All-State Second Team in singles (2022)
Eight-time CAA Player of the Week
Two-time CAA Doubles Team of the Week
CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25)
W&M Provost Award (2023-24, 2024-25)
CSC Academic All-District (2023-24, 2024-25)

Senior Season (2024-25)
Named First-Team All-CAA in both singles and doubles, becoming the seventh player in Tribe history to earn all-league honors in all four years of her career … Concluded her career ranked 14th in program history in career singles wins and 12th in singles winning percentage … Finished the year ranked No. 17 in the ITA Atlantic Region in singles, marking the third-straight season in which she has ranked among the top 20 in the region … During the dual season, went 14-6 in singles and 5-0 in CAA play, with all of her matches coming at No. 1 … Won the Gold Singles Draw at the Tribe Invitational (9/14-15/24) … Competed at the ITA All-American Championship (9/21-22/24) … Selected as the CAA representative at the ITA Conference Masters Championships (11/7-8/24) … Received her seventh and eighth career CAA Player of the Week awards … Earned the first on 2/4/25 after picking up wins at No. 1 against Norfolk State (2/1/25) and West Virginia (2/2/25) … Earned the second on 3/18/25 after recording straight-set wins during the Tribe’s victories over Temple (3/13/25) and Drexel (3/14/25) … Defeated Sara Suchankova during the Tribe’s match against No. 47 Charlotte (4/12/25) … Alongside Francesca Davis, advanced to the quarterfinals of the main doubles draw at the ITA Atlantic Region Championship (10/20/24) … During the dual season, posted a 10-9 record in doubles, with all of her matches coming at No. 1 alongside Ine Stange … Clinched the doubles points against Norfolk State (2/1/25), Longwood (2/5/25), and Drexel … Defeated Third-Team All-CAA duo Alina Vasilenko and Cornelia Kack during the Tribe’s CAA semifinals win over Delaware (4/26/25) … Earned CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll distinction during the fall semester … Selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.

Junior Season (2023-24)
Fifth player in W&M history to be named CAA Player of the Year on multiple occasions … Selected to the All-CAA First Team in singles … Finished the year ranked No. 13 in the ITA Atlantic Region in singles … Went a perfect 3-0 at No. 1 in leading the Tribe to the league championship and was named the Most Outstanding Player at the CAA Championship … Clinched the Tribe’s CAA Quarterfinal win over Campbell (4/26) and semifinal victory over UNCW (4/27) with victories at No. 1 … Went 19-3 in dual-match play, including a 14-3 mark at No. 1 … Led the Tribe with a 28-6 singles record … Her singles winning %  of 82.4% ranked 10th in program history … Twice Named CAA Singles Player of the Week … Received the honor on March 26 after leading the Tribe to wins over Hofstra (3/23) and Temple (3/24) and on Feb. 13 … For the first honor of the year, she picked up her first career nationally-ranked singles win, knocking off No. 79 Selma Cadar of Maryland (2/10) in straight sets … Earned CAA Doubles Team of the Week honors with Ine Stange on March 19 after league road wins over UNCW (3/14) and Charleston (3/16) … Clinched the Tribe’s regular-season wins over George Mason (2/25), Temple (3/24), and Elon (4/13) … Tallied a 15-9 doubles record, including a 9-5 dual-match record … Played primarily with Stange, going 8-5 in dual-match play … The pair clinched the doubles point against Georgetown (2/4), Maryland (2/10), Toledo (2/17), Charleston (3/16), and Hofstra (3/23) … During the fall, won the top doubles flight at the Navy Blue and Gold Invitational (9/29-10/1) with Francesca Davis, winning four matches … Won the Gold Singles Draw at the Tribe Invitational (9/16-17) with three wins … Advanced to the second round of the main singles draw at the ITA Atlantic Region Championships (10/19-21) … Went 3-0 in singles at the Liberty Hidden Duals (11/3-5) … A Provost Award winner … Selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll during the fall … Named College Sports Communicators Academic All-District.

Sophomore Season (2022-23)
Named the CAA Player of the Year … Selected as the Most Outstanding Player of the CAA Championship after leading the Tribe to its 28th conference title … Won in straight-sets at No. 1 singles in the Tribe’s semifinal win over Elon (Sibel Tanik) and in the championship match over UNCW (Zoe Huffman) … Named to the All-CAA First Team in singles … Voted to the VaSID All-State First Team in singles … Led the team with a 21-7 singles record, including a 15-4 mark at the top position … Went 7-0 against CAA opponents … Finished the year ranked No. 15 in the ITA Atlantic Region in singles … Clinched the Tribe’s victories over Longwood, Pacific and Delaware with wins at No. 1 …Only CAA player to named Player of the Week on three occasions (Feb. 28, March 21, and April 11) … Posted an key three-set win over VCU’s Victoria Smirnova in the Tribe’s 4-3 win over the Rams … Notched a straight-sets win over Richmond’s Leonor Oliveira at the No. 1 spot … Won top singles flight at the Navy Blue and Gold Invitational during the fall … Won 13 doubles matches teaming with three different teammates … Went 8-5 alongside Emma Pell, including seven wins in dual-match competition … The duo clinched the doubles point with wins at No. 3 in Tribe victories over Pacific and North Carolina A&T in the CAA Quarterfinals … Also teamed with Raffaela Alhach to win two matches at No. 1 doubles, including the clincher in the Tribe’s CAA win over Towson … Named to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll.

Freshman Season (2021-22)
Selected as the CAA co-Rookie of the Year … Named to the All-CAA Second Team in both singles and doubles … Handed fellow CAA Rookie of the Year Alina Vasileno of Delaware her only two singles losses of the year … Ranked second on the team with a 23-11 singles mark … Named to the VaSID All-State Second Team in singles … Compiled a 14-7 ledger at the top two singles positions in dual-match play … Went 5-2 against league competition with three wins over All-CAA competition … Went 2-0 at No. 2 in the CAA Tournament to help the Tribe to the league title … Named the CAA Player of the Week on Feb. 9 after picking up wins over West Virginia and Norfolk State in the Tribe's season-opening doubleheader … Led the Tribe with 17 doubles victories, including 12 in dual-match play … Teaming with Mila Saric, went 8-7 at No. 1 doubles, including a 3-2 mark in CAA play … Two of the CAA wins came against All-CAA First-Team squads from Charleston (Slade Coetzee and Hali Trinkle) and UNCW (Sasha Belaya and Lauren Gish) … Teamed with Ine Stange to clinch the doubles point in the CAA Championship match vs. Elon … Won three matches at the ITA Atlantic Region Qualifying Tournament to earn a spot in the Super Regional main draw … Notched a 9-4 record in fall singles action … Selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll.

Prep
Was the Norwegian U19 National Champion in singles in both 2019 and 2020 … Claimed the U19 national doubles championship in 2020 … Won the singles and doubles title at the ITF Grade 5 Stavanger and the ITF Grade 4 Gjovik … Owned a Combined ITF Ranking of 278 … The top ranked U18 player in Norway after being No. 2 in U16. 
 
Personal
Daughter of Terje Gurholt and Marianne Hason … Earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance in May of 2025. 
 

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    5'6"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2023-24Junior

    5'6"
  • 2024-25Senior

    5'6"