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2021-22 Women's Tennis Roster

Mila Saric

  • Class Senior
  • Height 5-8
  • Hometown Los Cristianos-Arona, Tenerife, Spain
  • High School Synergy School

Biography

Honors
CAA Player of the Year (2021, 2022)
CAA Rookie of the Year (2019)
Most Outstanding Performer of the CAA Championship (2021)
First Team All-CAA in singles (2021, 2022)
First Team All-CAA in doubles (2021)
Second Team All-CAA in singles (2019)
Second Team All-CAA in doubles (2022)
First Team VaSID All-State in singles (2021)
First Team VaSID All-State in doubles (2021)
Second Team VaSID All-State in singles (2020)
Second Team VaSID All-State in doubles (2020)
ITA Scholar-Athlete (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)
CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)
W&M Provost Award (2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)
Nine-time CAA Player of the Week
Six-time CAA Doubles Team of the Week

Senior Season (2021-22)
Became the fourth player in W&M history to be named the CAA Player of the Year for the second time … Finished the year ranked No. 100 nationally in singles and was No. 7 in the ITA Atlantic Region … Named to the All-CAA First Team in singles and the second team in doubles … Became the first Tribe player since 2016 to be selected to the NCAA Singles Championship … Fell in three sets to No. 32-ranked Carolyn Campana of Wake Forest, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 … Posted a 25-6 singles record … Named the CAA Player of the Week on three occasions … Clinched regular season wins over Richmond, Delaware and Drexel with singles wins at No. 1 … Went 15-3 in dual-match action at the top spot … Downed eventual All-American and NCAA Semifinalist Paola Exposito Diaz-Delgado of VCU, who finished the year at No. 47 … Picked up nationally-ranked wins over No. 55 Thasaporn Naklo of Iowa State and No. 83 Ariana Arseneault of Auburn … Clinched CAA semifinal win over Delaware with a three-set win at the top spot over Eliza Askarova, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 … Teaming with Hedda Gurholt, 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) … Earned CAA Doubles Team of the Week honors with Emma Fernald on April 26 after posting a win at the No. 2 position against Elon … During the fall, advanced to the quarterfinals of the ITA Atlantic Region Super Regional … Post a 3-1 singles mark at the Kitty Harrison Invitational (9/24-26) … Selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll … A W&M Provost Award winner … Named an ITA Scholar-Athlete.

Junior Season (2020-21)
Named the CAA Player of the Year … Selected to the All-CAA First Team in both singles and doubles … Ranked No. 9 in the ITA Atlantic Region in singles and doubles … Selected to the VaSID All-State First Team in both singles and doubles … Won her final eight matches of the year and finished with an 11-3 overall record … Picked up a pair of nationally-ranked wins, knocking of ODU's Holly Hutchinson in three sets in each of the team's dual matches at the top singles spot … Capped the season, going 3-0 with straight-sets wins at No. 1 singles in the CAA Championship to earn the Most Outstanding Performer award … Twice this season was named the CAA Singles Player of the Week … Garnered a 10-4 mark in doubles action … Topped Richmond’s Emily Dunbar in three-sets at No. 1 in the Tribe’s 4-2 win over the Spiders … Downed Liberty’s Alexandra Almborg in straight sets at No. 1 in March … Avenged an earlier three-set loss to JMU’s Daria Afanasyeva, dropping just four games in a dominating win in the CAA Championship match … Named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week on March 10 along with Vitoria Okuyama … Named a W&M Provost Award winner … Selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll … Named an ITA Scholar-Athlete.

Sophomore Season (2019-20)
Named to the VaSID All-State Second Team in both singles and doubles … Twice named the CAA Singles Player of the Week and once on the doubles team of the week in 2020 … Led W&M with a 14-7 overall record and was 6-4 in dual-match play … Picked up a pair of nationally ranked wins during the year … Handed No. 90 Ayana Akli her first dual-match loss in straight-sets, 6-4, 7-6 (2), to clinch W&M's 4-2 win over Big Ten foe Maryland … Notched a pair of wins at the top singles position … Clinched the Tribe win over George Washington with a victory at No. 2 … Named to the CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll during both the fall and spring seasons … Selected as a W&M Provost Award winner … Topped No. 44-ranked Zoe Spence during the fall season at the Kitty Harrison Invitational … Totaled eight doubles wins … Teamed with Vitoria Okuyama to comprise the Tribe’s No. 1 doubles team, going 5-5 overall with three wins at No. 1 … The duo secured the doubles point for the Tribe in upsetting the No. 51-ranked team in the country from Iowa State (Christin Hsieh and Thasaporn Naklo) in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (6) … Named the doubles runner-up at the Kitty Harrison Invitational with Okuyama in November after posting wins over the North Carolina team of Kacie Harvey and Alle Sanford and the NC State pair of Liz Norman and Lexi Keberle … An ITA Scholar-Athlete honoree.

Freshman Season (2018-19)
Named the CAA Rookie of the Year … Selected to the All-CAA Second Team in singles … Led W&M with a 19-11 singles mark, including a 15-6 dual-match record … Won six of her final seven matches, including all three in the CAA Championship in straight sets … Was 6-0 against CAA competition during the dual-match season … Twice named the CAA Singles Player of the Week and garnered the doubles honor on a pair of occasions  … Clinched a trio of Tribe wins during the regular season, including victories over Big Ten foe Maryland and Atlantic 10 Champion VCU … Also topped the Green and Gold with 14 doubles wins … With Perry, totaled a 10-6 record in dual-match play with five wins apiece at No. 2 and No. 3 … Named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week after downing Virginia Tech’s Nika Kozar and Nina Sorkin on March 6 … Named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week after winning its opening four matches of the season … Downed VCU’s Paola Delgado and Kanako Yano to help W&M to the doubles point and eventual win over the A-10 Champion … Selected ITA Scholar-Athlete … A W&M Provost Award recipient … Named to the CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.

Prep
Earned a career-high combined ITF Combined World Ranking of 429 in 2018 … The 2017 women’s champion of the Canary Islands … Won a trio of ITF Junior doubles championships in 2017 … Claimed the 2017 Babolata Cup title in Ukraine and won the ITF East African 18 & Under Junior Circuit event in Nairobi, Kenya in January of 2017 … Ranked No. 1 in the Canary Islands and top 20 U18 in Spain … Rated a career-best 64th overall in Spain in January … Competed in the ITF Women’s Circuit events in 2015, 2016 and 2017 … Advanced to the singles quarterfinals at the ITF East African 18 & Under Junior Circuit event in Nairobi, Kenya in January of 2017 … Won two qualifying matches and advanced to the round of 16 at the 22nd Tivoli Trophy in Timisoara, Romania in July 2017 … Won a pair of qualifying matches and advanced to the second round of the 2017 City of Wels Junior Grand Prix, Powered by EWW, a Grade 1 event in Austria … Advanced to quarterfinals in singles and semifinals in doubles at the 2017 Luxembourg Outdoor Juniors Open … Was a doubles quarterfinalist at the 19th Serbia Junior Open in 2017 … An exceptional student with a GPA of 9.92 out of 10 … Earned a scholarship from the government to study English in Canada for three months.
 
Personal
Daughter of Vlado Saric and Marija Misic.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    5'8"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    5'8"
  • 2020-21Junior

    5'8"
  • 2021-22Senior

    5'8"